Monday, March 15, 2010.

HANDWRITING
The students brainstormed "se" words that say "zz" such as cheese and please. Students wrote three "se" words three times and the date once.

FRENCH
The class added notes on the panda, penguin, and moose to our zoo section.

MATH
The students continued to work on the "Show What You Know" section.

Some strategies that were used include:

DOUBLES STRATEGY

Ex: 6 + 7 =

If you know the double 6 + 6 = 12 and 7 is one greater so,

6 + 6 = 12 + 1 = 13 and therefore

6 + 7 = 13

NEAR TEN STRATEGY

Ex: 3 + 8 =

If you know that 2 + 8 = 10 and 3 is one more than 2 then

2 + 8 = 10 + 1 = 11 so

3 + 8 = 11

RELATED FACTS STRATEGY

Ex: 17 - 9 =

If you know that 9 + 8 = 17 then you can see the answer to the above question is 8.

Test on Thursday, March 18th.

SCIENCE
We discussed the properties, such as colour, size, texture, shape, and weight, that we used to describe various solids from Friday's discovery activity.

SHOW & SHARE
Students shared a green John Deere blanket, a story about a green vest, a green spider, a green dinosaur, and a variety of stuffies including a green turtle, a green owl, and Sumi, the Paralympic mascot.

*Spelling test tomorrow.