February 22-25th 

The month of February is coming to a close real soon! We have been so busy immersed in all the daily learning, fun, discovery and community bonding that it is hard to believe that we reached 100 Days AT School this week. 

Here is a glimpse at our week:

Citizenship: I can show kindness to others. I can understand that people are different. I can share my ideas with others.

For Pink Shirt Day: we began by looking at the history of why it started and how it has grown. After we had the pleasure of learning from our Grade 2/3 class about being an Upstander and what that really meant. From there we shifted our focus to a book called, The Invisible Boy, by Trudy Ludwig. This book sparked a fantastic discussion on the messages found in the story and illustrations. From there we tackled the question - "What can we do to make the world a better place?" Using the Think, Pair, Share collaborative strategy, students came up with lots of thoughtful ideas that we hope to implement in our daily lives. Our next steps were to take all these ideas and come up with a slogan, motto or saying to create Pink Shirt Day t-shirt templates. 

A big thank you to the Grade 2/3 classes for providing us with the video, activity and other learning activities/books to build our awareness around Bullying, Being an Upstander and Kindness. 

I can understand and apply strategies for addition and subtraction facts up to 20 using a number line. 

This week, Ms Rowland's math group continued to work on building our understanding of addition. We centered our focus around number lines, how to read them, different types, increments on a number line and how to use them as a tool to assist us in addition scenarios. Students  first practiced using beaded number lines to "show numbers" like 5, 15, 25 to develop a solid understanding that beaded number lines are arranged in colored groups of 10. This makes it easy to "find" the number 25 on the beaded number line as one would see that it is two groups of 10 and five more. From there, students learned to use the number line to show addition equations such as 5 +3 = 8. We will continue to use number lines with subtraction scenarios in the upcoming week. 

This week in Ms. Yasin's math group, students practiced adding and subtracting multiples of 10 without using their fingers or a number line. Student learned the trick of just subtracting the tens place value and leaving the ones place value the same (when subtracting multiples of 10). For example, with 56 - 20 we can think of it as 5 tens - 2 tens, and then put the 6 ones back for the answer. Their goal is to be able to do this without looking at a 100's chart! Students had fun creating questions for each other to solve. 

I can say the number sequence forward/backward by 1's, 2's, 5's and 10's. I can represent a number in a variety of different ways. 

On Friday we celebrated the 100th Day of School by examining what we would feel like if we were 100 years old, how things have changed in the past 100 years, reminiscing/writing  about our favorite activities and events in the past 100 days, body breaks that had us complete 100 movement activities, books about 100 and building things that had 100 parts/pieces. Students built their own beaded number lines which had 100 beads to use at home and practice counting to 100 in different ways, and to use as a tool to add/subtract at home. 

We also took our 100th Day celebration outside, with the challenge to take 100 steps, make 100 snow angels, build 100 snowballs, move 100 different ways, make 100 snow piles, represent 100 in the snow. It was such a beautiful day to continue this learning outside, students rallied to stay outside for 100 minutes!