Books, Books, Books!!

Over the past few months, the majority of our class has become passionately obsessed with making books!  We are loving all the ideas and the motivation to write books and read each others stories.  Our book collection is growing by the day, we have books on Super Heroes, Winter, Spring, Animals, Community Helpers, Hockey, and so much more.

 

The authors in our class decided that we needed to create a bookstore within our classroom - "The Book Academy" is officially under construction!

After we had a discussion on different genres of books the idea of a class book was brought up.  The students became enthusiastic about creating a Healthy Cookbook filled with their favourite recipes.  Two students decided that a letter needed to be sent home to ask for help obtaining their recipe as well to some teachers asking for theirs.  This is an example of authentic and purposeful writing at its best!

We are looking forward to sharing our books with you!

Spring Math Garden

We are welcoming Spring with open arms throughout our classroom!  Here is a student working at the Math Garden.  He selects a popsicle stick that has an addition sentence written on it. Using the two coloured counters he represents the numbers in the sentence to find out the sum.  Some students began using their fingers to help them add.  Once they have come up with the sum, the popsicle stick is placed in the flower pot that represents the number.  As the students continued to practice they were able to answer some of the questions by memory!!  One of our objectives was for students to see that there are different ways to make a number (E.g., 2+2=4, 1+3=4, 4+0=4).  It was a proud moment when we would hear students saying things like "Wait....I can make 6 so many ways!!" E.I.

Can you incorporate this math naturally at home?  

How many veggie sticks do you have: carrot sticks + celery sticks = how many altogether??

Count different shaped pasta, markers, stuffed animals...

Take a picture and send it in, we would love to see how you tried this at home!