Blast from the Past!

What a fun week!

50's day was so much fun! Everyone looked so great and we rocked out to some Elvis Presley! 

For Math we talked about skip counting to 50 by 2's, 5's, and 10's. They did great with this! They are really getting the hang of skip counting from practicing in the mornings. We also made our "I can make 50!" poster. We discovered that to make 50 you would need 5 groups of 10. In centers each student showed groups of ten using different materials. 

 And to add to 50's the students had filled up their Warm Fuzzie Jar by being an awesome group of kids, showing good listening and participating in class discussions. When they fill this jar they get a popcorn movie party! For the last bit of the day we enjoyed Jimmy Neutron and Popcorn!

In Math this week we have started out addition unit! We started off with talking about numbers and their parts and how we put them together in addition. 

When we are solving math problems we can use many different strategies, it just depends on what we like best! Some of the strategies we worked with this week were: 

- Using our FINGERS! This is the easiest and most convenient one! 

- Counting ON! Putting the biggest number in our head, holding up the second number of fingers and counting to find the answer. 

- Drawing pictures! Using dots or pictures to represent both numbers and count them all together. 

- Number Lines! We always start on the bigger number and jump as many times as we need to add, we should land on our answer! 

We even made some Dino Addition Stories!

We had some special visitors this week in our class! Firefighters! As part of our Social curriculum we take a look at our community and the people who help keep it safe and running. Firefighter Patrick and Firefighter Sinead cam to teach us about fire safety! As well as, share with us some of the things they are responsible for as a community helper! Thanks Firefighter Patrick and Firefighter Sinead!

And they even timed me dressing up! I did it in less than a minute! 

We also found time to make our Christmas cards! We mixed our Science knowledge with our Art skills! In our creating colour unit we learned all about how to make secondary colours from our primary colours. Each students used blue and yellow to make different shades of green with water colour paints. That green paper was used to make Christmas trees for our cards! I hope you enjoy them as much as we liked making them!