Monday February 27, 2017

Many of us brought in our Newspaper Articles from the kids news websites today. We practiced reading fluently. This means reading smoothly, accurately, in a loud, clear speaking voice and adding expression like excitement into our reading to make it interesting to the listener!

On Wednesday we will be practicing reading like a Reporter! I can also practice this at home. My news will then get pinned onto our Breaking News Bulletin Board on Friday.

In writing we planned our first attempt at solving the problem in our story. Ask me how my animal tried to help me solve my problem and why it DID NOT work?


Today we celebrated International Polar Bear Day by turning off our classroom lights, heat and technology! It was challenging but so important! 


Math
Important Subtraction Strategies:
This is what we have been working on in Math
MATH CONTEXT

Remember our Friendly Numbers 100s, 10s, 5s and extra's 1's

When we use different colours it can help us think about our Hops, Skips and Jumps!

Here we can think about how to get to a LANDMARK NUMBER (30) to then make the backwards jumps of 10 and 5 "easier".

We can create new equations by breaking the original one down into smaller parts!

So first we think about using the friendly 10 inside of the 16, and subtracting 160-10 = 150. And then we do the remainder which is 150-6= 144

Here is some work that we did today when we were trying to figure out the difference in age between Carlos his Sister and Carlos and her Dad. This difference is how many more years Carlos will need until he will reach these ages! 

Science:

In science we made a list of things that we think could be hot and things that could be cold. Tomorrow we will estimate the temperature's that we think these things might be.

Some things we talked about for Hot:

-coffee

-fire

-tea

-steam

-boiling water

Cold:

-ice

-ice cream

-popsicle

-snow

-fridge

-freezer

https://www.mathsisfun.com/measure/thermometer.html