Today we started looking at another country in our region of study… Vietnam! Right next to Cambodia, Vietnam also provides us with an opportunity to inquire into our central idea of struggle and survival.
We started our new book, Goodbye, Vietnam by Gloria Whelan, which prompted us to make prediction and connections to Chu Ju’s House, by the same author.
To get a glimpse of what life might have been like in Mai’s village, take a tour of these villages. How might where Mai lives be connected to our central idea?
For math today, we played with a practical problem set right here in Kinshasa – a traffic jam! By visualizing the road and the long rows or cars, we made connections to arrays and PARTitioned rectangles. We connected the visual representation to a numerical representation of partial products. In addition, we wrote equations to represent our process. We will continue looking at this tomorrow and extending our thinking over the next few days.
At the end of the day, we were introduced to sketchnoting… a new strategy for all of us. While we only began to get a glimpse of the building blocks, we already see the potential for academic doodling.
Rewatch the videos from class and continue learning how to sketchnote at BrainDoodles.