The Word of the Day is...Collaboration

Room 408 worked on our collaboration skills today.  We worked on our January Learning Mural, where we represent different things we remember learning in the month of January.  We discussed the things we do when we collaborate, and how collaboration helps us all learn more.

We collaborate when we share jobs and split the work equally.  The group representing The Little House in the Big Woods wanted to represent when we learned about the pig's bladder.  They split the balloon into three parts to share the work equally:

Room 408 is also really into data and measuring.  They created a math station to collect data about measuring.  Yesterday it was Flea Jumps and recording data about how many inches high we could jump.  

Today many students created their own round of calisthenics for data collection.  Makenna had me touching my toes and measuring a sit-and-reach style task.  Brianna was timing how long students could hold various positions such as the following:

It all just made me smile (and giggle a little, inside).