Over the last few days we have done a small study of writer and illustrator Barbara Reid. She writes lovely stories, but more important for us, she creates beautiful pictures from plasticine. We have been watching, rewatching and watching her videos again and again to learn from her. Using her techniques and a few of our own, we are creating scenes from our Pourquoi Stories. We will have these on display for you when you come visit on April 17th.
In math, we have been working towards subtracting numbers from 99, using a variety of personal strategies. Today we practiced using the number line strategy for subtraction. This was familiar for us because we had used this for addition. It was a great opportunity for us to review that subtraction is the opposite of addition, therefore we start our number line in the opposite way.
Here are the problems that we worked with today. The students had a good giggle when they saw their names on the board. For those who finished all the problems, they had time to create their own silly word problems and exchange them with a peer.
Coming Up:
- Good Friday next Friday. No School
