These decade days rock! 80's day was radical! Righteous even! Music was rocking all day. Of course, if you know me at all, it wasn't just a dress up day....we used the theme to experience rigorous academics in a tubular way!
With so much neon, I got out the black lights. We started the day with a multiplication word/equation find. Highlighter really pops in the black light. The students bopped all morning, working on academics with 80's music.
We also used the highlighters to analyze the organization of some informational text. We read an article about the 80s and used our new NEON READ ON highlighters and glasses to read closely and highlight the different sections in different colors. For example, the main idea was in green. The key start ideas or facts were in yellow. We used pink for any elaborations, evidence, or examples that supported the key start ideas. With the text in bright color coded highlights the students could really see a pattern to the article. We used the same pattern to outline our own informational writing during writing workshop.
For math, we warmed up with the best number of the 80s. Students had to think of as many equations as they could for 867-5309. They could use addition, subtraction, multiplication, or division.
We played two different glow games during math. Both games were designed to work on multiplication fluency. First we played tic-tac-glow. Students had to give an answer to a flash card and then take a place on our huge glowing tic-tac-toe board. It was face paced and fun!
The second game was glow spin. The students spun a glow in the dark top. They had to solve as many multiplication facts as they could before the top stopped. The students tallied how many spins it took to solve the page of problems. We will continue to work on memorizing facts. This game put some time urgency to solving problems but in a fun way.
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