Puppets, People of our Past, Math, Author Study and Buddies!

Literacy

We made puppets for our character from our Readers Theatre scripts. Next week we will be using a theatre and rehearsing our puppet show.

Using these Characters we will be practising adding EXPRESSION into our voices when we read so that our presentation is INTERESTING to an AUDIENCE.

I can practise making my reading exciting at home by paying attention the the characters in the story and how they are feeling and acting.

People of Calgary/Alberta's Past

In inquiry we learned about important people of Calgary/Alberta's past.

We learned about 4 important people:

Bull's Head and First Nations People

Father Doucet

Sam Livingston-One of the First Farmers in Alberta

North West Mounted Police- Inspector Brisbois

http://calgaryherald.com/news/local-news/alberta-150-the-lawmaker-the-treaty-negotiator-and-the-missionary



Math

We have been practicing building numbers using base ten materials and work mats.

We looked the number 112. We talked about how it is make up of 2 cabins (ones), 1 house (tens) and 1 mansion (hundred). 

We practiced making many different numbers and seeing if we could build them on our mats and explain what number we had made. We talked about adding two digit numbers together such as 13+17 using base ten.

First we built each number and were able to say how many cabins (ones) and how many houses (tens) were in each number. 

Next we looked to see if there were 10 cabins.  As soon as we see 10 cabins (ones) we know that we need to move them. They cannot live in the ones anymore! They need to move to the houses (tens). We practiced circling the tens and using an arrow to show the new house (10). 

Finally we added up how many houses (tens) and how many cabins (ones) to see what our total number was. You can practise doing this at home by drawing and/or going on this website. 


http://www.abcya.com/base_ten.htm



Author Study

We have been reading books by Jan Brett. She is an author and illustrator, who has written many books. We are learning about how she gets her ideas for books and her artwork. So far we have read:

You can visit her website too and find lots of information about her and her books.

http://www.janbrett.com/index.html

Buddies
Today was our first day of Buddies! Ms. Mercer's PM Kindergarten class came to our class. They taught us a math game. We read them some books. Ask me what my Buddy's name  is?