Wonderful Wednesday!!
My how the week is blowing by!!!
Today we began the day having fun with
adjectives!!!! We had a classroom discussion about what makes all of us so
wonderful and we are incorporating all those amazing describing words into an
activity about us!! We drew ourselves and picked six or more adjectives to
describer who we are. These wonderful pieces will be posted on our doors all
year!
We then had French and then Gym.
After first recess and lunch we continued
learning about patterns on a number line. Today we were number detectives!!!!
Ms. Jaskolka only put up the number 0 and 100 on a piece of string and we
needed to fill in the missing numbers! We had so much fun!!! We then showed our
understanding using our math textbooks and working in partners.
After second recess and lunch we had the
very important task of deciding whether or not math should be taught in our
school. We understood that voting is a very important task and that we need to
consider both sides when making a decision. Before Ms. Jaskolka told us the
result of our vote, we watched a video to better understand how voting has
changed and why voting is so important. We
also read a book Granddaddy’s turn: A journey to the ballot box. Michael and his
father make a special trip into town for a very important event-Granddaddy is
going to vote for the first time! But as Michael soon discovers, there is still
a long way to go on the road to justice. Granddaddy was not able to vote
because of the colour of his skin and we had a discussion about groups of
peoples that have been excluded from the vote based on many factors such as
gender and ethnicity.
We talked about the idea of what is fair and unfair and we decided that if we all live in one country together, everyone should be allowed to vote. We were very happy to learn that today in Canada everyone over the age of 18 is able to vote! We are very excited to have this opportunity one day! We were also very pleased when we heard the results of our vote today.
Our
job was to decide if math should be taught at our school and the majority of
our class said yes!!!
Have a great night!
1.
Read for 20 minutes
2.
Math sheet question 1 and
stretch your thinking
3.
International Day research Due
Sep. 25
4.
Food Bank Items
5.
Two dollars for Terry Fox
6.
Scholastic orders
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