Tuesday October 21, 2014

Tremendous Tuesday!

****Parents we need white board markers for our class. If you could kindly bring some in, that would be a wonderful help!

**** Picture Day is Monday October 27 2014 – Please have students come in their full uniform.

This morning we began the day having art with Mr. Monaghan and physical education with Ms. Lovan.

In math we reviewed near doubles and how we can use near doubles to help us add. For example:

6+7= ?

6+6 = 12 and 1 more is 13

7+7= 14 and 1 less is 13

so 6+7 is 13

Students then reviewed related facts (fact families) together.

Afterwards, we went over to Ms. DaCosta’s class and played a fact family game.  Students were each given a card with a fact family and they needed to find the three other members of their family.

Ex: 3+4 = 7 needed to find 4+3=7, 7-3=4, 7-4=3

Watch us:

**picture

****Math test Tuesday October 28 2014

During our unit of inquiry, we continued learning about the media. We began the class listening to riddles and we needed to figure out what media was being described.

Ex: I am made of large sheets of paper. I have photographs and lots of words. I tell people the news. What am I?

Answer: A Newspaper

Here were some other answers:

We then learned about the difference between fact and opinion. A fact is information that is known or proven to be true. An opinion is a personal view, which may or may not be based on facts (I think, I believe, and in my opinion). We then played a trivia game as a class, deciding if a statement was fact or opinion.

Ex:

An elephant is bigger than a dog – Fact

Everyone should eat ice cream – Opinion (we decided this is an opinion because not everyone likes ice cream)

Here is a link where students can play at home:

 Fact or opinion

After first lunch and recess, we had French.

When students returned, they wrote their homework in their agendas and then completed any unfinished work.

During second lunch, we listened to the multiplication song again; we were multiplying by two.

Afterwards, we read a letter that Ms. Jaskolka wrote and we reviewed the important parts that we need to make sure to include in a letter. We then looked at a letter with mistakes and pointed them out; we also corrected the mistakes.

At the end of the day, we began learning about Word Work that is part of Daily 5.

We learned that it is important to spell words correctly when we write, because we care about our writing and the people who will read it. When we become better spellers, we become better readers and writers. During word work, students will be working on words that they have trouble spelling. We will be using different methods to spell words: write it, decorate the word, build it with magnets and play dough; we will use foam stickers. I will also see if I can get some sand, so the students can spell the words in the sand and possibly some individual whiteboards. Creating the words in various and fun ways will help the students remember how to spell words they have trouble with.

Homework:

1.     Read for 20 minutes

2.     Donations for food drive

3.     Spelling test signed

4.     Math test Tuesday October 28 2014

5.     Picture Day is Monday October 27 2014 – Please have students come in their full uniform.