March 11-15

 March 11-15

This week was jam-packed with lots of exciting learning opportunities.  Here is a peek at some of the learning from this week.  

Pink Shirt Day Needle Felting with Grade 6 Buddies

We had the opportunity to work with our grade 6 buddies to build a beautiful representation of friendship and to mark Pink Shirt Day.  Thanks to our Student Voice who started this initiative, students in grade 1 and grade 6 partnered up to draw a heart, transfer it to felt square and then using roving wool and a felting needle created a quilted square that will be joined with others to create a friendship quilt.  

Teacher’s Pet

Thank you to our amazing parent volunteers that were able to join us for this in-school experience.  Student investigated energy and built their understanding of direction, pathway, and speed of moving objects and animals. Students built a wooden race car, tested vehicles on different materials, built a marble run, and played an informative animal game.  

Learning Intentions:

I can observe and describe the direction, pathway, and speed of objects or animals. 

I can conduct an investigation to determine how objects move. 

I can describe and record ways objects or animals move along different pathways.

I can demonstrate how the movement of objects can be influenced. 

Math

We have continued to explore and build our understanding of addition. 

Learning Intention

I can model addition and subtraction within 20 in various ways, including with a balance.

I can relate addition to various contexts involving composition or decomposition of quantity.

I can investigate addition 

I can add within 20.

I can solve problems using addition

The following is a summary of the key ideas that could support your child’s learning.

Combining Parts to Make a Whole

Sometimes you know the size of parts, and you want to figure out the size of the whole. Adding can help you.

For example, if there are 4 adults and 2 children at the park, you might want to figure out how many people there are altogether.

You can add 4 and 2 to get the total, or whole, of 6.

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Figuring Out How Much to Add

Sometimes you know the whole and one part, and you want to figure out the other part.

For example, if there are 8 birds in a yard and 3 are robins, you might want to figure out how many are not robins.

You can think about what to add to 3 to get to 8.

You can add 5 to 3 to get 8.

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A New Model to Show Part-Part-Whole Situations

Another way to show the connection between parts and a whole is called a bar model.

A bar model shows the whole in one rectangle, or bar.

It shows the parts in another bar of the same length.

Early on, students might use linking cubes to create the whole and to create two parts that together are the same length as the whole. Then they can use the bar model to record what they did.

Science - Tale Bots - Robots

We snuck in a few minutes this week to start to explore the Tale Bots.  They are a ton of fun and had many of us giggling and laughing, as we tried to see what they could do.  We will try to spend a bit more time in the coming week exploring their features, and then we will start to see what we can really do with them, in connection to coding.