Monday 30 May 2016

Monday, May 30th, 2016

Thank you to all parents for getting your children to school by 8:05 this morning.  We were off in the bus by 8:15 and heading to the pool.  We received a compliment from the bus driver on our bus riding manners!  Students were equally well behaved in the change room and pool.

When we returned, we headed straight to Mrs. Peterson's room to share our research updates from the weekend.  We are seeing more progress and will be spending our last half hour each morning preparing for our presentations.  Students will work with their groups to compile information and to create their projects which will be shared at our Celebration of Learning!

What an afternoon of thinking!

In math, we finished up our learning about fractions.  We also introduced decimals.  We used the base ten blocks to show fractions and decimals.  We learned that when we you use the ten rods to cover the hundreds flat that we are looking at tenths.  When we use the individual units we are looking at hundredths.  We did some math writing about decimals.  Here are some of the quotes from student thinking:
I wonder if decimals are connected to other math things like subtraction and multiplication or addition or division? ~ Miller
I  noticed that a decimal looks like a period. ~ Isabel
I noticed that decimals and fractions are the same but just written differently. ~ Aliya
I don't know that much about decimals YET! but I do know that if its not a whole that it has to start with a 0. ~ Duncan
I wonder if you can add more zeros there 0.03 ~ Nick P.

We also connected the use of decimals to money.

In science, we watched a video about 10 scientists who lived in a dome on top of a dormant volcano in Hawaii.  They were being studied to see if they could survive being with others for 6 months. They had to live like they would on Mars. If they left the dome they had to even dress up in a space suit. They could only have one  6 minute shower per week and eat food like they would have on Mars.
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Then we completed our research on wind turbines.  We had to do a self - evaluation about how we see ourselves as a researcher.
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1.)  Swimming tomorrow - please meet in the Hub at 8:05 the bus will leave at 8:15.
2.)  EcoClub - will be planting our planter boxes on Wednesday at lunch
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If we had $52.40 how many dimes would you have?  What strategy did you use to find out?
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6 comments:

  1. OAKLEY (is awesome)30 May 2016 at 17:23

    A:524. The Strategy that I used was the same as Miller's. I got 52 from 52 dollars and the 4 from the 40 cents.

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  2. Anonymous30 May 2016 at 18:02

    524 . The strategy that I used was I got 52.40 and put the decimal behind the 4.-ANDREA

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  3. Unknown30 May 2016 at 18:05

    There are 10 dimes in a dollar and 4 dimes in 40 cents.
    10 x 52 = 520 + 4 = 524
    Lexi

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  4. Anonymous30 May 2016 at 19:42

    524- I know that there's ten dimes in a dollar so I did 52x10=520+4=524. Aliya

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  5. Unknown31 May 2016 at 06:35

    524- we broke it down to a dollar and then multiplied to 52 then added the 40 cents. Nic

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  6. Ella1 June 2016 at 06:32

    There are 524 dimes in $52.40 . I used the strategy that Mr.Demman taught us example: 5 x 1 = 5
    5 x 10 = 50
    50 x 10 = 500. I than added 20 and 4
    Ella

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