Picture Day tomorrow

We were super productive today.  Much was accomplished!

We turned our lovely art project from Friday - printing fall leaves on a tree with a cork - into math this morning.  Something I like to call MART.  Students estimated the number of leaves on their tree and then created a strategy for themselves on how to actually count the leaves on their tree.  We then shared the strategies students used for counting such as counting by colour, making groups of 5 and then counting by 5, 1 to 1 counting of leaves and talked about mathematicians having their own strategies for working with numbers.  Interesting.  After sharing students then figured out how many leaves they had altogether at their table group.  This meant we were working with much bigger numbers but we conquered the task!  Calculators were used and we checked our work.  Ask your student what strategy they used for counting all the leaves on their tree.

Students worked really hard to complete a foldable about the plot of the story they chose to read.  Everyone is working on their own and you could have heard a pin drop in here while they all worked on this task.

We've just begun our science unit, Rocks and Minerals, and so this afternoon we generated questions that we have about rocks.  It is important that everyone wonders and questions - especially as we are practicing to be scientists.  We enjoyed Rock Odyssey an oldie but a goodie.  Like Fred Flintstone!

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Picture Day tomorrow