MorningChallenges

0. Ms. Louis* is lending us a blender to make smoothies, a healthy snack. Draw a quick sketch of a blender with some fruit next to it. 1. With your partner, come up with a list of at least three fruits that could go into our smoothie, and write them down. 2. Mr. Doce doesn't want to spend more money than he has to on ingredients. Look through these ads, and find out which store he should go to to buy the ingredients so that the **sum** total of all the ingredients is **minimized**. Write down which store he should go to, what Mr. Doce will pay for each ingredient, and the sum.
 * alpha: Smoothie Ingredient Shopping**

0. Mr. Doce wants to hang a paper clip chain and have it go around the whole **perimeter** of the classroom, so that it will be easy to hang things from the ceiling. Draw a quick sketch of a paper clip chain. 1. Look around the room at where the the wall meets the ceiling. **Estimate** how many paper clips it would take to go along this whole space. 2. Link together paper clips to see how many it takes to make one foot. 3. The tiles on the floor are squares that are each one foot by one foot. Sketch a diagram of the perimeter of the ceiling, and label about how many feet each straight edge is in feet. 4. Calculate a better estimate for how many paper clips it will take to go around the perimeter of the classroom.
 * beta: Paper Clip Perimeter**

0. KenKen is a game that is kind of like Sudoku, but with a little more math. Draw a picture of a stick figure thinking about an easy math problem. 1. The first rule in Kenken is that each number, 1, 2, and 3, goes into each column, and into each row. So 2 1 3 would be an okay row. 2 2 3 would not be an okay row. 2. The second rule in kenken is that in each darkened box, the numbers you write have to make the number given to you, after using the operation given to you. So if it shows +4, you will have to use 3 and 1. If it shows -3, you would have to use 1 and 4. The order of the numbers inside the darkened box doesn't matter; but don't forget about rule 1. 3. There's no rule three, but I do have some advice for you: use a pencil!
 * gamma: KenKen**

0. Every day, we're going to have time to do independent reading. When you choose a book for independent reading, there are some things you should think about. Draw a stick figure looking at some books, with a thought balloon that has a "?" inside it. 1. What kinds of fiction books have you enjoyed reading in the past? Take turns with your partner. Your partner tells you some books that are interesting to her or him, and you write them down. You tell your partner some books that are interesting to you, and she or he writes them down. 2. If you liked one book by an author, or in a series, you have a good chance of liking other books by the same author, or in the same series. Write down if there are any books you can find by that same author. 3. What non-fiction topics do you know about, or would you like to learn more about? Just like in step 1, write down your partner's ideas. 4. Look on the non-fiction bookshelves for books about those topics. Write down what books are in the classroom library on those topics. 5. If there are any books you would like us to have in our library, add them to the Wish List at the back of this notebook.
 * delta: Independent Reading**

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