We were lucky enough to welcome back Denise Miller who is an aboriginal story teller. She shared about her culture, told us some stories (the funniest one was about the coyote!), and sang some songs with us. The students enjoyed hearing the stories and learning more about the aboriginal history and culture.
In math, we have also started to learn another subtraction strategy... one that many of you will know well: The Regrouping Method. This is probably the most difficult strategy that we will do this year. It is important that students understand not only what to do, but why they are doing it. We have spent a lot of time talking about why we cross the tens out and move a ten to the ones spot, but this is still difficult for many students. It would be wonderful if families could practice this at home. We have fun making up story problems for the questions and usually this gets quite silly, but encourages laughter.
We are creating an insulating device to keep ice cool or tea
warm as a culminating activity for our Hot and Cold Temperatures unit. We are hoping we could have students bring in
any items below that you have available for our classes to use:
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cotton balls
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tinfoil
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fabric
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newspaper
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wax paper
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solo cups
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feathers
Please send any items that you can share to school by next
Tuesday so that we can start this fun project!
Thank you!
