Updates on this week
This week in Literacy:
This week in literacy we have been learning about various character traits. We've been looking at Elephant and Piggy books, and describing both the Elephant and Piggy and what makes them unique as characters and how we would describe them when looking at outside and inside traits.
This week in Inquiry:
We also got to watch Bill Nye the science guy talk about heat and hot and cold temperatures. We learned three ways that heat transfers its energy: conduction, convection and radiation.
We have also been working with Robots this past week and this week. This week since we felt more comfortable with the Robots we were given a challenge! With a partner we created one repeating pattern with our robot and a growing pattern. This was really tough but we were able to do it!
Ask me about my pattern, and what kind was my favorite to make.
Double Digit Subtraction
This week we were challenged to answer a multi-step word problem. We were encouraged to use CUBES to figure out what the problem was asking us and how we could solve it:
After solving we self-assessed using red, yellow and green. We noticed that a common problem we had was slowing down and ensuring the we had used CUBES before trying to draw or solve anything!
We also noticed that on question number 2 we needed to slow down and re-read to realize that part of the information that we needed in order to solve we had to go back and get from our answer to question number 1!
We noticed that subtraction is a whole different process when using our t-charts and base ten blocks.
We will continue to practice subtraction all next week using this strategy, and using number bonds/decomposing as another strategy for solving double digit addition equations and as a way to double check our own work.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFjHid8Hgek
Practice this strategy at home using dice to come up with your double digit numbers!!
Acrylic Arctic Landscapes
This week we studied a Canadian artist, Jason Carter who does Canadian Landscapes and animals using Canvas and Vivid colors.
http://www.jasoncarter.ca/paintings
We practiced drawing our Arctic animal and then after thinking about where our animal spends most of the time we drew that kind of a landscape, emulating Jason Carter's style of big simple lines.
Tomorrow we will use acrylic paint and choose 3 or 4 vibrant and complimentary colors to paint our Arctic Landscape.
We are including no pictures of our work on this blog as we want to surprise you with our beautiful art at our upcoming Celebration of Learning!
Design Thinking
This will also be shared with you at our upcoming Celebration of Learning next week.
After reading many articles and stories, watching videos, watching the presentation from an Environmental Scientist ,and exploring the Arctic we have come up with some important problems. These problems are about the Arctic, and we discovered that some are caused by Climate Change and shifting weather patterns.
Today we got into groups based on a problem that interested us and brainstormed how this problem effects the people and the animals of the Arctic.
We first worked on empathizing. Where we tried to connect on who this problem affects and why. From there we tried to define our problem further. For example, what is our problem and why is it important to care about it?
This will also be shared with you at our upcoming Celebration of Learning next week.
This week in literacy we have been learning about various character traits. We've been looking at Elephant and Piggy books, and describing both the Elephant and Piggy and what makes them unique as characters and how we would describe them when looking at outside and inside traits.
This week in Inquiry:
We also got to watch Bill Nye the science guy talk about heat and hot and cold temperatures. We learned three ways that heat transfers its energy: conduction, convection and radiation.
We have also been working with Robots this past week and this week. This week since we felt more comfortable with the Robots we were given a challenge! With a partner we created one repeating pattern with our robot and a growing pattern. This was really tough but we were able to do it! 
Ask me about my pattern, and what kind was my favorite to make.
Double Digit Subtraction
This week we were challenged to answer a multi-step word problem. We were encouraged to use CUBES to figure out what the problem was asking us and how we could solve it:
We noticed that subtraction is a whole different process when using our t-charts and base ten blocks.
We will continue to practice subtraction all next week using this strategy, and using number bonds/decomposing as another strategy for solving double digit addition equations and as a way to double check our own work.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFjHid8Hgek
Practice this strategy at home using dice to come up with your double digit numbers!!
Acrylic Arctic Landscapes
This week we studied a Canadian artist, Jason Carter who does Canadian Landscapes and animals using Canvas and Vivid colors.
http://www.jasoncarter.ca/paintings
We practiced drawing our Arctic animal and then after thinking about where our animal spends most of the time we drew that kind of a landscape, emulating Jason Carter's style of big simple lines.
Tomorrow we will use acrylic paint and choose 3 or 4 vibrant and complimentary colors to paint our Arctic Landscape.
We are including no pictures of our work on this blog as we want to surprise you with our beautiful art at our upcoming Celebration of Learning!
Design Thinking
This will also be shared with you at our upcoming Celebration of Learning next week.
After reading many articles and stories, watching videos, watching the presentation from an Environmental Scientist ,and exploring the Arctic we have come up with some important problems. These problems are about the Arctic, and we discovered that some are caused by Climate Change and shifting weather patterns.
Today we got into groups based on a problem that interested us and brainstormed how this problem effects the people and the animals of the Arctic.
We first worked on empathizing. Where we tried to connect on who this problem affects and why. From there we tried to define our problem further. For example, what is our problem and why is it important to care about it?
This will also be shared with you at our upcoming Celebration of Learning next week.
As well in music we have been learning a new song for our celebration of learning, here is a video from Ms.Mann that you can follow along with at home to practice on your own.
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