Today was very, very busy! We began our morning by finishing up some work in our visual journals. Our morning did not follow the normal routine either as we had many students helping prepare for our official school opening tomorrow. The students did a great job as they practiced in the choir, if they had speaking parts, and making our classroom look spick and span :)
As we study legends, we decided to dig deeply and focus on summarizing in our own words. We worked together as a class to recall what happened in the story "Mwakwa Talks to the Loon" by Dale Auger. Kayâs is a young Cree man who is blessed with a gift that makes him a talented hunter. He knows the ways of the animals he hunts and can even talk with them in their own languages. But when he becomes proud and takes his abilities for granted, he loses his gift, and the people grow hungry. In math we continue our exploration of multiplication, using doubling a multiplication fact we know to help us solve word problems. Students looked at the following questions: 1) How can you use 3 x 6 to find the product of 6 x 6? Show your work and explain your thinking. 2) Find the product for the following number sentences. What strategies did you use? a) 7 x 4 = b) 6 x 4 = c) 5 x 4 = 3) There are bicycles and wagons at school. Each bicycle has 2 wheels. Each wagon has 4 wheels. Eli counted 28 wheels. How many bicycles and wagons might be there? How many different ways can you find the answer? 4) What might each missing number be? How many different answers can you find for each number sentence? a) _________ x _________ = 16 b) _________ x _________ = 16 5) How do you know that doubling the product of 2 x 6 is the same as finding 4 x 6? Use words, numbers and pictures to explain. In science we reviewed the process nature uses to recycle, looking at the role of producers, consumers, and decomposers. Since there were more than five students interested in the Calgary Young Writers Conference on February 22nd, we will be doing a draw tomorrow morning. They will open up more spots later in February if other schools don't use all of their 15 spots and we can then put the children whose names were not drawn on a waiting list. Reminders: Feb 2 ~ Scholastic Book Orders Due (cheques only please) Feb 3 ~ PD Day Feb 6 ~ Book Mobile Visit Feb 14 ~ Kernels Popcorn Day (Healthy Hunger) Feb 16-17 ~ Teachers Convention Feb 20 ~ Family Day Feb 23 ~ Fun Lunch
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aliza
2/1/2017 07:48:52 pm
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