Wednesday October 25, 2017

Wonderful Wednesday!

We have an action star today!!! We are learning about transportation from the past and how people migrated in the past using various forms of transportation. So today Tayler decided to dress how princesses would dress in the past!!! Great action Tayler!!!

We began the day writing a recount about our fun day yesterday at the museum!!! First we talked about what is a recount: a recount is to retell about a topic in order.

Here is our recount that we created as a class:

Here are some more pictures also:

Next we had French and then gym.

After first recess and lunch we had Music.

Next we had a special surprise!!! We were invited to the school next door!!! They had a Science Fair today and we were given the opportunity to explore all their cool experiments!

When we returned we dove into math. Today we focused on using mental math strategies for subtraction. We practiced how to use a splitting strategy and friendly numbers to subtract two digit numbers.

Splitting:

When using the splitting strategy we split the numbers into the tens and ones column:

38+25

            tens    ones

38=      30        8

25=    - 20       -  5

            10   +     3      =13

Using friendly numbers we find numbers that make it easy to subtract or add from (for example any multiples of ten)

38- 25

For 38 a friendly number is 30

30-25=5

Then I would do 5+8  (from the 38) which equals 13

Here is another example:

For the homework, students can apply these mental math strategies or use the standard algorithm.

During second recess Ms. Jaskolka hosted games club and one of her friends spelled her name with her two favourite colours!!!!!

After second recess and lunch we read a very exciting book called The Bravest Fish. In the story Stanley woke up late and his school of fish was gone!!!! He realized they were supposed to swim to cooler waters today! He went to the meeting point but no one was there!! Then we saw a shining light and swam towards it but he found out it was just a grumpy lobster counting his coins. The lobster wanted Stanley to leave him alone and pointed the way he saw his friends went. Next he was so excited because he saw on of his friends but when he swam closer to it he bumped into a pearl! He realized that it was only his reflection! He continued to swim along and a shark started to follow him!! Stanley swam as fast as he could into a cave to get away!! Finally Stanley realized he needed to be brave so that he could find his friends. He decided to come out of the cave and he found his friends!! Stanley was a risk take and it paid off!!!

We used this fun story to begin writing our own recount. We will continue our recount tomorrow.

Have a great night!

1.     Read for 20 minutes

2.     Picture Day tomorrow

3.     Math sheet