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.

Using Pedometers

We have introduced pedometers for grades 2-5. Our peds only show number of steps. We showed the students how to attach the peds to either their hip or their shoe. We then logged the steps after warm ups, after running drills and after they completed their sport play. For the upper grades, 4th and 5th, we will compare number of steps after 6 minutes of each- warm ups, running and sport playing to compare/contrast which type of exercise yields more steps. In the coming weeks we will convert steps to feet and feet to miles. We will compare how many steps a student takes compared with a classroom teacher, office worker and PE teacher.

Baseball Instructional videos

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Numbers in Baseball

Statistics-Today we figured out winning percentage for baseball pitchers and football quarterbacks. The formula is games won divided by total games

Diagrams- Today we looked at the dimensions of major league ball parks. Distance to center field, left, right.

Design and Build a Baseball Diamond

Today we had the students go through the process of designing and building a baseball diamond. First we started with a plan. We had the students copy a sketch of a baseball diamond including the dimensions of 30 feet to each base. Next we used a tape measure to put the bases in the proper place. We also showed them how far it is for a professional base path of 90 feet. The next day i asked them if a batter got a hit and ran from home to 2nd base, how far did he run? If a person got a home run how many feet did he run? We talked about using addition and multiplication to figure out the answer.

Describe Gravity and It's Effects On the Human Body

Today we will begin a disscussion on gravity with newton's 3 laws of  motion.
View science.discovery.com site http://science.discovery.com/interactives/literacy/newton/newton.html .
We will use Pe apparatus to prove these laws.