IMPORTANT INFORMATION
Glaciologists say that the next ice age begins when the snow doesn’t melt over summer. IMPORTANT DATES April 18: Fun Lunch (Little Caesar) April 19: Student Led Conferences (3:30 pm - 7:00 pm) April 25: Spring Photos April 26: PoWer Hour begins OUR DAY 131 days to go, 49 days left. Word by the bike racks is that there were some tired students this weekend…TIRED FROM ALL THAT LEARNING! And maybe walking. Which helps with the learning. Today, we began with Math Morning. Students were given a variety of addition problems. As always, they are encouraged to SHOW THEIR WORK and ORGANIZE THEIR INFORMATION. So far, looks good; I will go over their work and provide feedback for corrections tomorrow. In the rabbit hole that is Pinterest, I found a fabulous resource called Word Banks. Now, I have used them before, but the structure of these make sense in the following ways:
I will provide a word bank list to refer to, so they can add to their own, AFTER they have given an honest effort to theirs first. After our Observation Animal Word Bank, the students got into their animal observation groups, and created a poster of what they learned. They were given 9 specific questions/topics, and then whatever else they wanted to add. They had to have the following:
After lunch, we discussed our story sticks, and the thank-you “cards” we will be sending Chevron (the corporate partner who helps fund Zoo School), Andrea (our Zoo School coordinator), and the Calgary Zoo, as well as volunteers. We discussed how we can incorporate our leanings of story sticks into our thank-yous. After gym, we tackled subtraction, buy watching 1.5 videos from Khan academy. These are wonderful videos that explain concepts using colour, and a variety of ways to represent numbers. The students are always reminded that the classroom is their safe place where they can always share misunderstandings and confusion, because really I will rename our classroom as their clarity space. There were great questions that lead to deeper understanding. The biggest takeaway is ALWAYS READ THE QUESTION, and the biggest strategy is to READ IT OUT LOUD, like you are quietly talking to yourself, as this forces yourself to listen. For instance, the way the problem was worded was this way: Take 659 from 971. In my experience, a number of students will only look at numbers, know they have to do subtraction, and put the numbers in order as they see them. Well, that just won’t do! I wrote it out as 659 - 971 = ___ , and asked them to talk with their elbow buddy why this was not true. Through our discussion, and having a few students read the statement out loud, they heard the instructions, and switched the order of the numbers. (Proper vocabulary is: minuend - subtrahend = difference) I will introduce these words to them this week to help support their understanding. We will continue tomorrow. Then it was the end of day. The End. Cheerios! Ms Lauf Comments are closed.
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