IMPORTANT INFORMATION CTV was in our class on Monday! Click on the Zoo School Thank-You stick or the link. Watch at the 44:20 mark. IMPORTANT DATES June 13 & 14th: Chantal Chagnon from Cree8 - Dreamcatchers June 20: Chantal Chagnon from Cree8 0 Drumming (in the morning) June 20: Fun Lunch! (Boston Pizza) June 20: Grade 6 Farewell Assembly at 1:30 pm June 22: Sports Day June 26: Farewell Assembly at 8:15 am June 27: Last Day of School —> Early Dismissal at 11:45 am OUR DAY 170 days down, 10 days left. Welcome to the middle of the week! This week has been a whirlwind. It is report card season, and I just get so inspired this time of year, looking at the body of work of each student. They have all worked hard in their own way, grown so much, and, well, I am… they are… they have… I… well, I need a tissue. I actually do. The class has been really “setting the bar higher”, as a couple students said today as THEY set the criteria for the Renovated 13-Room Poetry, for how many ideas/phrases/words they need to include in their final poem. They had a thoughtful discussion about how many to put, justifying their reasons. I put in my two cents, more to plant the literary device seeds. Students have also been “constructing” a Division Camp.This is a fun activity I like to do, where they design a camp based on division. There are 20 campers sleeping 4 to a tent. How many tents are there? There are 8 rowers. 2 rowers are allowed in each boat. How many boats are there? There are 25 campers at Arts & Crafts. 5 campers are at each craft table. How many tables? There are 12 campers paying fort games. There are 4 tree forts. How many campers in each fort? 3 campers wrote 15 postcards home. How many postcards did they each write? (This one tripped many up… and I know why…) Students have learned that is a division sentence, it s written like this: 15 ÷ 3 = 5 BUT, the first number they read is 3. Many answers I saw were “55” or “45” So many paths of thinking here! Well, it’s end of year, and I’m tired, so I wouldn’t help them. I’m just kidding. I gave them 15 cubes to play with. One student got it, then another. This is when I went to the board and reiterated what we were looking at, in terms of what each number represents in the sentence, and how it relates to the multiplication chart. So many Oooooohhhhh’s. We then talked about visualizing what we are doing, and that’s how we can pay with it in our heads. They have also almost finished their memory writing for final feedback. AGAIN such beautiful writing. We also looked at how Ukraine and Alberta are similar and different using a Double Bubble map. Cheerios! Ms Lauf Comments are closed.
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