Monday - Wednesday Update

Here we are checking out the Book Fair in the Learning Commons! We were
all quite excited to hear about so many book choices from Mrs. Kidd and
browse with our "wish lists". We are hoping to share these with you and show
you around during our Meet, Greet and Learn Night Thursday from 5-7pm. 
Please plan to come and visit our classroom, say hello to Mrs. Armour, see some
of our learning so far and visit the Book Fair!



In Math we are learning some new games to practice our addition, subtraction and
multiplication! Today we learned "Multiplication Madness" - all you need is a deck
of cards, a pencil and a paper (or a marker and a white board!). The first card (number)
tells us how many groups to draw and the second card tells us how many dots to
put in the group. Then we add them all up and see if we get the same number!

We also played race to 100 with buttons and dice.


In gym we are continuing with cooperation games. Today we played "over
and under". You really have to pay attention to the person in front of you and
work together as a team!




In Math we are starting to learn different strategies to solve problems. Drawing
a picture is a good strategy to use when there is a word story problem. We are
learning to find and highlight the important words and then turn the story into
number sentences to find the answer. Ask me how I did with the "Paula and the
skipping rope" story and the "Mouse who lost his crackers".



We had to be flexible as scientists to learn about light and our shadows. We had to wait for the sun! Ask me how my shadow changed from the morning to the afternoon.

REMINDER:
Meet, Greet and Learn Evening 5-7pm Thursday, September 19th

(Happy Birthday to Max on September 19th)

Non-instructional Day on Friday - Enjoy your weekend! Pay attention to your
shadow when the sun is out and try to guess how it might look different in a few
hours!