February 12 - Happy Family Day

BREAKING NEWS:

Please note that there is no school on Thursday, February 13th and Friday, February 14th due to Teachers' Convention, as well as Monday, February 17th due to the holiday. Enjoy your time with your family!

In LITERACY we developed our own Student Learning Plans, by identifying how we learn best, our main goal (in literacy, math, or wellbeing), and how we plan to achieve our goal. We then typed our learning plans into our Iris accounts! Be sure to ask us to log in at home so we can show you (there is a link to iris on the right sidebar of this blog)!

Our sight words next week are:
-talk
-does
-doesn't
-your
-you're

In MATH we continued to develop our subtraction strategies and ability to check our own work by using the opposite operation. We used task cards to work in our group to solve subtraction equations, and check our answers using the corresponding addition equation. We were then introduced to subtraction with regrouping by exploring the following equation:

First we built the minuend (top number) using base ten blocks, then we tried to take the subtrahend (bottom number away), and learned that we couldn't without "borrowing" from the tens place! We built a few other equations like this, and we can't wait to explore subtraction with regrouping more next week!

  

In SCIENCE we learned how annotate by looking back on everything we've learned during our inquiry as Water Conservationists, and recording the important information! We are so excited to be organizing our data, so that next week we can make google slides! Stay tuned in the coming weeks for a special announcement and invitation to our Celebration of Learning, so that you can stop by our class and see everything we've learned as Water Conservationists!

In SOCIAL STUDIES we continued our exploration of The Blackfoot First Nation by exploring the rich tradition of Indigenous storytelling. We practiced our own oral storytelling skills by working with our groups to retell familiar stories. We learned that sometimes stories change as they are told, but that that's part of the beauty of oral storytelling! 

We also participated in a community circle to reflect on the friendships that we feel gratitude for as part of our Valentine's Day celebration. 

Thank you for growing with us and enjoy your long weekend!
-Ms. Meier and Ms. McBride