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Battleship For the Entire Family!!!!
Student’s Name: Date:Date:
Parent:
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For an extra challenge double, triple, or quadruple the size of your game board and add more area to cover with ships. Again, make sure both teams cover the same area with ships.
Don't forget to bring in your finished game boards or game scores for extra Lion Bucks or homework points.
Online Battleship
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Battleship For the Entire Family!!!!
Student’s Name: Date:
Parent: ___
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Directions:
Ø Each person gets 2 grids labeled A-H on the vertical axis, and 1-10 on the horizontal axis. One is to track your attempts at hitting your opponent’s boats and the other is to lay out your ships for your opponent to try and hit. Ships can be made using anything you have around the house that covers between 2-6 squares. Or if you want you can get creative and use odd shaped objects to act as your battleships. Just make sure both teams have the same number of squares covered by battleships.
For an extra challenge double, triple, or quadruple the size of your game board and add more area to cover with ships. Again, make sure both teams cover the same area with ships.
Don't forget to bring in your finished game boards or game scores for extra Lion Bucks or homework points.
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Battleship For the Entire Family!!!!
Student’s Name: Date:
Parent: ___
Directions:
Ø Each person gets 2 grids labeled A-H on the vertical axis, and 1-10 on the horizontal axis. One is to track your attempts at hitting your opponent’s boats and the other is to lay out your ships for your opponent to try and hit. Ships can be made using anything you have around the house that covers between 2-6 squares. Or if you want you can get creative and use odd shaped objects to act as your battleships. Just make sure both teams have the same number of squares covered by battleships.
Ø Players take turn guessing a coordinate. If you miss, mark it on your grid with a white marker. If you hit their boat, mark it with a red marker and you get to go again till you miss.
Ø Continue the game until a player has sunk all of the ships!! Have fun beating up on your parents!
For an added challenge, have a neutral friend name an area between 2-15 squares and both teams must cover that amount of area with battleships of any size and shape.
For an extra challenge double, triple, or quadruple the size of your game board and add more area to cover with ships. Again, make sure both teams cover the same area with ships.
Don't forget to bring in your finished game boards or game scores for extra Lion Bucks or homework points.

Math Unit: Coordinates and Area 2012
Mr. Kreiter:
Rational:
Welcome to the third of three units which Mr. Harrow and Mr. Kreiter have designed and will be teaching simultaneously. Just as with the other two units, the main purpose of the paired classrooms is to give students the best possible teaching, two teachers planning together is always better then one. In fact, unlike the other units there is not interaction between the two classes for this unit. Instead each class will work through the unit at their own pace and in their own time. This unit focuses on not just the skills students will need later on in life (and unfortunately on standardized tests) but it focuses on making the topic relevant to kids lives. There is more game playing in this unit than most students and parents might be used to, but it is all part of the learning process. Fun should always be at the heart of the learning process. Please check out the Family Battleship Game below which you can play at home with your kids, but beware... they have been practicing and their skills with coordinates might surprise you. Have fun and good luck playing.
Rational:
Coordinates and area skills are necessary for success not only later on in a student’s math career but also in the near future as it applies to state testing. Students need to understand the basics of graphing and calculating shapes before they move into more complex algebra and geometry concepts. More immediate is the implications for students in the upcoming months when these topics will be covered on the state MSP tests which our 4th graders will be taking. Coordinate skills might not be as useful as they once were during a time before computers and gps, but understanding how to read maps, even those on Google maps, takes an understanding of coordinates. Through this unit students will learn to appreciate the usefulness of coordinate skills though games and lessons designed to bridge the gap between student’s experiences and the curriculum in chapter 9 of Math Expressions. Area is important for students to understand not just how to calculate it, but students must also have a conceptual understanding of area to succeed in the real world. Whether buying a house or running down a football field area and our human pursuit to cover it influence student’s lives. As a result of the sometimes abstract nature of coordinates and area, it is important that this unit helps students understand why these subjects are relevant to them. It is key for students to not only understand these concepts but also to appreciate them and what understanding them can do to enrich a person’s life.
Family Battleship Game
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Math Unit
Math Unit: Coordinates and Area 2012
Statement from Mr. Harrow and Mr. Kreiter:
Rational:
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Welcome Parents and Families
Welcome! You have arrived at the homepage for Mr. Harrow & Mr. Kreiter's joint literature unit, social studies unit, and math unit.
For literature Both class roomsboth classrooms will be
For the Social Studies Unit the focus will be understanding economics, government and how communities work together though the context of Ancient Egypt. Student will participate in a simulation "Storypath" in which they will become characters in Ancient Egypt. The Unit will culminate in a joint class banquet with games and food from Ancient Egypt during which students will be able to share their character's artwork and myth stories.
For the math unit, both classes will be exploring coordinates and areas in a series of lessons designed to make math fun and interactive while still being informative. Students will be calculating areas of rectangles and triangles as well as creating games using coordinates (kinda like Battleship). This unit promises to deliver math like it has never been delivered before.
Please visit the links below for more information on Mr. Harrow, Mr. Kreiter, and the Themed Literature Unit, the Social Studies Unit and the Math Unit for 2012 including links to supporting materials and activities for each book from the unit. Also visit our links to helpful resources for Students and Parents, and for teachers looking to emulate Mr's Harrow and Kreiter please visit the Teacher Resources link below. Thanks for visiting the site, enjoy your stay.
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Mr. Harrow's Class
Mr. Kreiter's Class

Soon to feature student's work.
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Soon to feature student's work.
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Mr. Kreiter hard at work on another worksheet.
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Just heard AGAIN that I resemble Tim Tebow. That's like 3 this month...No way.