Pink Shirt Day, Subtraction Challenge, StoryBoard Mapping and IRIS POST!

Pink Shirt day was amazing. We had a great assembly with MC's, Constable Will, and 110 William D Pratt Students.


After the Assembly we came back to class and designed paper pink shirts to reflect a message we thought was important or wanted to share about kindness and stopping bullying! Ask me what my message was?

We watched a video of the book Howard B Wigglebottom Learns About Bullies:

https://wedolisten.org/books-and-lessons/book/Howard+B.+Wigglebottom+Learns+About+Bullies


Math

Subtraction with Regrouping/Borrowing

We have continued to practice solving double digit subtraction using t-charts to stack our numbers, draw our understanding and find a final answer. We have been working on remembering that we need to read the problems first so that when we are subtracting we take away instead of adding the numbers together.

Borrowing from the tens can be confusing if we don't clearly show our work and remember to show our thinking for all of the steps.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Buyaqe_L5-Y

I promised the kids I would put three math subtraction questions on the BLOG. Please let your child try to solve them using the t-chart, stacking method. See if they can explain to you why they did what they did and to show their math thinking step by step. 


SUBTRACTION CHALLENGE!

1. 33-16=

2. 57-19=

3. 44-26=


If they complete these on paper and want to share them with me, send them back tomorrow in their Home Communication folder and we will celebrate their math thinking...


STORYBOARD MAPPING

We have been working on creating a story board map using 5 minute sketches and adjectives to describe parts of our story:

Yesterday we did Characters

• myself as the main character
• 2 arctic animal characters

Today we worked on our Setting

• Where in the Arctic is our story going to take place? Sea Ice, Tundra, Mountains, Rocky Cliffs, Ice Floes?
• What season is it?
• Is it day or night

We had to think about:

-what do I see?

-what do I smell?

-what do I hear?

-how do I feel?

Tomorrow we will work on our Story Beginning and the PROBLEM. 

NEW IRIS UPLOAD!

Today in IRIS we uploaded a picture of our first prototype/design for our Thermos. We reflected on what we learned or did well and what we want to add or change for our next design that we will be building tomorrow. Check out IRIS by clicking on the permanent link above at the top of our BLOG.