It was a busy week as we prepared for the big night, the students worked very hard to pull the room together.
Just over a week until our winter break! Though it's hard at times for the students to stay on task with all the excitement in the air, we have a lot of work to do until the break! Next week the students will be putting the finishing touches on their arctic fairy tale, finally publishing into their own book! We're wrapping up our inquiry work on arctic communities, the past few days we've had some discussions as to what we've learned since we started all the way back in September. In reality we could study the arctic all year because there is so much more we can dig into but we will be moving on to study prairie communities in the new year.
In math we have continued to work with base blocks to help develop our number sense. Recently we are working on ways to count to 100 using skip counting techniques, grouping and mental math. The students have been learning about odd and even numbers and using ten frames to show our learning. By using ten frames, the students have discovered how even numbers always have a 'partner' while odd numbers always have one left over. Here are some odd and even games your children can play at home if they are interested in practicing:
odd or even sorting
Jelly Diving
I look forward to seeing everyone at interviews this week!
Ms. Q
