Today we celebrated another friend's birthday! She turned 9. We also came in to see our beautiful pointillism artwork. Ask your child if they remember the process for creating their Alberta landscape. In the gym we came in to find a whole bunch of letters on the floor. There were words written on the white board and we had to spell using the letters. Students had to do exercises at each letter. There were two options. Ask me which exercises I chose and what some of the words that we spelled were. During catch up we had to finish our written story from the perspective of a First Nation, pictographs, artwork using oil pastels, and others had to complete a write up about some of the work that we have been doing. Once all jobs were complete students had the chance to go to practice keyboarding skills or could visit the website www.abcya.com. The Book Mobile came for a visit this morning. Please visit your local library to get a library card for your child so they can visit next time the Book Mobile comes. You can find more information about this service by visiting here. We continued working on the math problems we received last week and will do so again tomorrow. These multiplication problems have students working on solving a variety of problems using multiplication and providing different entry points. In music we watched a video called "Heal the World". We sang "O' Canada" and the people in the choir sang in French. We did African drumming as well! After lunch we had a special presentation about Elder protocol. An Elder from the Blackfoot Nation will be visiting our classroom to speak about his culture, tradition, the connection to nature/earth, the history of the Blackfoot people, etc. This is a great honour. We also are fortunate to have a person coming from the Glenbow Museum that will bring artifacts to share related to our learning about the First Nations people in Alberta. In guided reading students working with the teacher will be acting as "Summarizers" this week. They will be asked to summarize the events in the novels they have been reading using their own words and explaining how they are important to the plot or the development of the characters. Lastly, we began our good copy of our "Winter Count". Students are using fabric to represent how the FNMI people used to pass along the important events from each year. They are using their own symbols and are telling the story of their life thus far. I CAN use multiplication to describe and apply mental math strategies.
Homework Math Problem: Mrs. Otterson's class has six tables with four students at each table. Each student needs to have a pencil, eraser and their notebook. How many supplies does the class need in total? Bonus: If each student needed more supplies, what supplies would they need and how many supplies would the class need in total. Explain your thinking. Reminders: Feb 3 ~ PD Day Feb 6 ~ Book Mobile Visit Feb 16-17 ~ Teachers Convention Feb 20 ~ Family Day Feb 23 ~ Fun Lunch
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