Room 14's
Weekly Update
Math
This week we did a final day of division practice before we move on to decimals and fractions and see how those concepts are related to division.
We worked on a very intriguing problem that Mrs. Kis learned about at the teacher's convention:
Using the digits 1, 3, 4 and 6, can you make all of the numbers from 1-24 using only addition, subtraction, multiplication and division? You can only use each digit once. You can also insert brackets to make sure you are following BEDMAS.
e.g. 3+4 + 6×1= 13
3×4 +6 -1=17
We have found all the numbers except 24. We will keep working on it over the weekend. A hint is that we divide something by 4.
Language Arts
We continued with our snack time read aloud book, The World Below. The book is getting very exciting as characters are going missing and encountering new civilizations after an earthquake in the Carlsbad Caverns.
We also kept up with our Book Club reading, including starting some centres with different activities to show our understanding of the vocabulary, plot development and characters in our novels.
We are almost finished our book projects. We can't wait to share our favorite authors and books with other classes and our parents.
Social
We have been learning about the 4 pillars of democracy. Our focus the past two week was on the equity pillar. Last week we participated in conversations around cartoons and pictures. This week we acted out scenarios. Listed below are some of the scenarios we completed and pictures of us acting them out. Ask me about the different scenarios.
The next pillar we are focusing on is the pillar of justice.
Science
We are almost done creating our science vocabulary games. We are looking forward to presenting our final product to the other classes to show our learning and also to help them learn.
French
We have started our construction of our houses. We are still collecting materials to build our creations. Some of us our trying to figure out how we can make our houses strong enough to hold the materials we want to add on our different floors/levels.
NO SCHOOL Friday March 1st- Professional Development Day