Our schools and classrooms may begin to look very different as schools are updated and remodeled.  Have you ever imagined your classroom looking different?

Spark your thinking!

1. Set up your early enrichment mini spark recording page: #23: Dream Learning Spaces
2. Look over these design ideas. Which one would you like in your classroom?

Would you have cool seating in your classroom?

What about a place to create?

How will you showcase your learning?

Are you like me, and like quiet areas to read?

2. Here’s your chance to become an architect and design your new learning space.  Design your dream classroom or learning space. Grab a poster and other materials to create your new learning space. You can add whatever features you think would help your learning, but make sure to include  the following:

(1) A place to collaborate or work with your classmates

(2) A area to create and make things 

(3) A space to showcase your learning

(4) A quiet area to work and read

3. Share your early enrichment mini spark recording page with your teacher or the EY coordinator in your building.

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I just counted to ten can you believe it?! It doesn’t look like I did, because they are letters,  but long ago that is how numbers looked liked. Numbers like that have a special names-Roman Numerals.

Spark your thinking!

1. Set up your early enrichment mini spark recording page: #22: Roman Numerals

3. We don’t use Roman Numerals often, but you can find them on clocks, in books, and even at the super bowl each year. Watch this video.  The teacher give a sentence as a way of remembering the numbers. Pause the video and add that to your recording page.

4. Look at this chart.  On your recording page write your age, your favorite number, and the number of students in your classroom.

5.  Share your early enrichment mini spark recording page with your teacher or the EY coordinator in your building.

Where are there ice caves filled with hot springs? What unique feature do many cave-dwelling fish have? What animals lived in Britain’s caves during the Ice Age? find out the answers to these questions in this mini spark.

Spark your thinking!

1. Set up your early enrichment mini spark recording page: #21: Caves 

2.  Watch this video about caves.  Write down the names of 3 different types of caves mentioned in the video.

3. Read this fact page about caves.

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5.  Share your early enrichment mini spark recording page with your teacher or the EY coordinator in your building.

Do you have what it takes to be a math olympiad?

Try these math challenges to find out! 

(1) How many squares and triangles are there in the following drawing?

(2) Draw the following shapes in one stroke without lifting the pencil and without retracing the same line.

(3) Sam lives in an apartment building. There are 3 levels above her and 2 levels below her. How many levels are there in the building?

(4) What do the following letters have in common?

Y M A O T U V X

(5) There are 2 rings and 6 triangles. Move the rings and triangles so that each ring has 4 triangles in them.

(6)  Alphabet Spaghetti Puzzle

Spaghetti is famous for the way it all gets tangled up on the plate. Those of you who think they know their alphabet are bound to get all tangled up with this puzzle too, unless you read it and think about it very carefully!

What letter of the alphabet is the one which comes eight letters before the letter which comes five letters after the fourth appearance of the first letter to occur four times in this sentence?

Comment Below with your answers!

Questions from Math Top 10 and Math is Fun

This week we are traveling to visit one of the largest cities in the world, 

London, England! 

England is a part of Great Britain or the United Kingdom, and makes up the southern half. You can see it below in Yellow. Can you believe London, England is 4,287 mi away from Omaha, Nebraska. To get there you would have to take at least two different planes!

Checkout these activities about London, England: 

1. Read more about England
2. Build your own London Bridge  
3. Learn to draw Big Ben 
4. Design an English castle and try to include at least 5 different shapes!

Share what you learned below or with your EY Coordinator!

Pi

Not, Pie, but Pi! Have you ever heard about it?

Pi is the 16th letter in the Greek Alphabet, and it is also a math symbol used with circles.

Pi equals the circumference divided by the diameter (π = c/d). The interesting this about pi is that mathematicians who have been working on this number believe that it is infinite, meaning that it’s not the quotient of two integers. In other words, the number pi goes on and on and on, and we don’t know where it ends!

Today, March 14th or 3/14 is celebrated around the world as Pi Day! 

Try out this fun Pi Day Early Enrichment activity below. Watch this video about the never ending number and download the Pi Day Grid Art!

Pi Day Grid Art 

Share your artwork with your EY Coordinator!

** Project adapted from Tinkerlab.com