Fitness Bucks

Students will receive fitness bucks for completing homework and classwork. Denominations will be in  pennies, nickles, quarters and dollars. Students will be able to choose what to purchase such as toys, free days, healthy snacks, etc. More to come....

Find The Square Footage Of The Blacktop

Today's journal entry and ticket to play was to find the square footage for the blacktop. Students were given the dimensions of the blacktop. Students have to show work.
Next we will figure out how many gallons of black paint to repaint the black surface. From the Home Depot calculator 1 gallon of paint covers 350 square feet of surface.

How Many Laps Equals A Mile?

This week we asked the question, "How far are we jogging when we do laps around the field?" First I asked the students to find out how many feet in 1 mile? The next day we measured the perimeter of the field. We now know that one lap = 550 feet. We then asked the question how many laps would we have to complete to equal one mile. On our field the answer is 9.6 rounded up to 10 laps. For grades 2-5 we are asking the students to give us the total feet traveled if we complete x amount of laps. Grades 2-3 the students are using addition. Grades 4-5 are using multiplication.