Sept. 29

Today we had our first guest teacher Mrs. Duncan and the students did wonderful job of making her feel welcome in our school and classroom!  Because of the good choices of all the students, our classroom didn't resemble the above cartoon at all! In fact, she left a little note explaining how hardworking and kind the students were this morning and I think that made us all feel proud. Thank you to all the students for being so responsible, respectful and friendly today.

In math, we are continuing to look at ways that shapes are used all around us. We have been doing shape hunts in the school and we will use this technique during our community walk next week when we look at shapes in playgrounds. 
We used our 3D shapes to create structures in the real world. Check out the park and the skatepark below. Notice the careful attention to the angles in the skatepark for jumps and the cones in the park to represent the trees. 

      

Skatepark

 

Park

We have also just started working on a new open ended math problem where students need to use their knowledge of faces and vertices with shapes. We have not had time to completely finish this so please don't give away the answer. 

"I have 2 3-D shapes in my basket. Together, they have 7 faces and a point. What shapes could they be?"

As a family, you could easily adapt this question for 2D or 3D shapes by asking a question like "I am thinking of 2 shapes... they have ___ corners and ___ edges".  For best results think of a statement that has a couple different answers. Children can draw the shapes to help them or even use real life objects in the house. 

Coming up:

Terry Fox Run tomorrow. Bring a Toonie for Terry!

Community walks Monday and Wednesday 1:00 - 2:30. Volunteers still needed!