Today we worked well on our Daily 5 and everyone did their best to review their Word Work to prepare for the quizzes on Friday. Please remember to review your word categories at home and to practice at www.spellingcity.com. Our focus lesson today during our Read Aloud was about gathering clues to "infer" meaning from the story. We learned that we need to be detectives and pull from clues given by the author. Inferring requires deeper thinking and making connections.
After Read Aloud, snack and a quick break outside in the sun, we began working on a "top secret" project. Students, please explain what we did and why to your parents.
What a busy afternoon we had. It began in music. We worked on our pre-recorders and we are really learning a lot with Mrs. Jones.
In math today we broke into our groups. With Mrs. Bowles we are continuing our work on division. We are extending our learning by challenging ourselves with numbers of our own choice. The group that is working on The Great Divide: A Multiplication Journey, are choosing some amazing numbers. They are also learning that even numbers can be split and odd numbers cannot without a remainder. The Doorbell Rang group encountered some difficulty with how to divide the tray of cookies. We are currently illustrating our understanding of a plate of 72 cookies and adding the division equation to our work.
With Mr. Demman we are applying ideas that we have collected from Amanda Beans Amazing Dream. We walked around the school and capture real-world evidence of our multiplication arrays using iPads. The group working with Anno's Mysterious Multiplying Jar are busy preparing their projects through a variety of unique ideas. We captured a some great images of your learning.
Mr. Demman continued to read Auggie and Me, there was a connection made between the story and The Amazing Race. We found out that Mr. Demman was actually in an episode of the Amazing Race Canada, the first season. He played in the band when the contestants were in Calgary at The Ranchman's.
In gym, we played a dodgeball game. Many were sweating.
1.) Read A Thon pledge forms and information went home today. All pledges are due back by next Thursday.
2.) Reading Week Picture Order forms went home today. Students if ordering must bring money and favourite book by Friday please
3.) Student Led Learning Walks Wednesday (surnames ending A-L) 6:00- 7:30 and Thursday (surnames ending M-Z) 6:00 - 7:30
4.) Please sign up for Parent Teacher Interviews next week if you haven't done so already.
What is something that you have learned from doing our Math and Literature Projects?
That division was not as challenging as I thought
ReplyDeleteI learned that you can do Multiplication in many different ways!!!
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I learned that even numbers can be divided without any leftover numbers, and odd numbers have leftover numbers when they are divided.
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I learned that how to sort the words in categories. - kartik
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