Flip the Sound, Addition using Stacking, and A Promise Is A Promise

Literacy


This week one of the strategies we have looked at for sounding out words is: Flipping the Sound. It is a great strategy when you attempt to sound out a word and what you said does not make sense? Think does the letter make another sound? g, c, ch, th, a, e, i, o u and y all make more than one sound. Often if we can recognize that what we sounded out did not sound right and FLIP the sound we can figure out the word!

Math

Stacking to add using T-Charts!

In math we explored using rulers and our large math books to draw a t-charts to solve an addition problem by stacking:
We discussed the importance of neatness and organization in Math and how it can help us in our thinking. We practiced using rulers to create t-charts to place our stacked equation inside of.

We practiced solving the question math addition equations using this stacking method as a strategy:


We carefully circle and regroup ten's, and move them over, to the higher place-value column using an arrow.

In Math we are continuing to look at the strategy of stacking to ADD a math equation. What symbols do we need to see in order to know if we are adding or subtracting? What does it mean if we are adding numbers?

Remember to always start with the ONES. We can see that we can make a 10 with all of these 1's. That ten cannot stay in the ones column. When there are 10 ones they REGROUP together to make a 10. THEN the 10 needs to MOVE to the Tens Column.

Once we circle a ten they are REGROUPED together and move on over to the Tens Column!

Now we have 6 tens instead of 5 and only 1 one left in the ONEs Column. 

What is your final answer?

These symbols are important. What do they tell you about the problem?



Arctic Story: A Promise Is A Promise By Robert Munsch and Michael Kusugak

Ask me what lesson the author or the storyteller would be trying to teach the people who listen or read this story?

Today we went back over all of the Arctic Stories we have read so far. We looked at the parts of story and focused on: THE LESSON

We had to go back to one of the Arctic Stories we had done and look for clues to deepen our understanding of the lesson. It is ok to have more than one lesson in a story. We also had to think about what lesson the author or storyteller would be trying to teach? Why? We were also challenged to elaborate our writing by adding more details and more specifics so that instead on only one sentence or an incomplete sentence we had three or four sentences with more details included within them.

Science

The Water Cycle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWb4KlM2vts

Yesterday we watched the Water Cycle video and song again. We also got the lyrics and we did some research from an article on the Water Cycle. We learned about some important terms like:

Evaporation
Condensation
Precipitation
Transpiration
Collection