Thursday 24 September 2015

Junglesport!

Hello,

This morning, we started the day with the following problem:


We used addition, subtraction and regrouping of Base 10 blocks to solve the problem.

Next, we used the whiteboards and worked in pairs to solve questions involving counting by 10s and 100s. We used addition and subtraction strategies to solve the problems. 

There is no new homework in Math today. If the students have finished all of the previous activities, they handed in the Math workbooks to me. If any of their work was incomplete, they were asked to bring it home, finish it for homework and hand it into me on Friday.

Next, we revisited "Spaghetti on a Hot Dog Bun." We had a class discussion and the students summarized the key events from the story and shared the important themes and the author's intended message in the story. The students said the book's messages were that it's OK to be different, that we should be brave enough to be ourselves, we should always help others, and that we should treat others how we want to be treated.

Then, in groups of three, we made connections to the story. We talked about times we helped others, or were helped. We also talked about times we were not afraid to be ourselves.

We listed the connections on chart paper and tomorrow we will be posting our thinking on a padlet board for the class to see.



Finally, we went Junglesport. I will post some pictures from the activity on my Twitter account - @MrSkinnerocsb.

Have a great night.

Mr. Skinner