Aha! We Discovered Arrays!

Today one of our Grade 2 and 3 groups realized they could use rows of tiles to figure out the answer to 9x9. We later learned we could call what they made an array. This group went on in search of a shortcut to count all these tiles. They made groups of 10 and used some fantastic skip counting!

Problem of the Day

1s - get a whiteboard! 2s - you're in charge of the marker. 3s - get the eraser and last but not least 4s - you're today's team manager. In today's problem our groups had to find out how they could show data in a Pictograph when each symbol represented two.

What's in Your Smarties Box?

Our Grade 2s and 3s explored our new data management strand using Smarties. We used tallies to help us compare what was in each box. To our surprise each box was different! Some boxes were even missing a colour!

Eco Club Shopping on a Budget

This afternoon our Grade 4s and 5s were on the hunt for an economical shopping plan! Our Eco Club was soon going to be planting flowers in support of the Cheerios campaign to "Bring Back The Bees". The class brainstormed stores where we might find our needed supplies, then groups were given the Eco Club's wish list, and they were off to see what they could do with a $60 budget. 

During our Language period today, we will have 5 centres to complete in 45 minutes. How long can we spend at each centre?

What Angles Can You Find?

Our late slips came in handy today as we discovered the corner was 90 degrees and if we folded it in half it was 45 degrees - half of a right angle!

Tell Me That Time!

Our Grade 4s were busy exploring time this week! We discovered there are many ways we can refer to a time displayed on an analog clock.

Perimeter

Our Grade 4s explored perimeter! We recorded our thinking on whiteboards and projected photographs of the to help us share our strategies. 

Even More Coding with Scratch

We started learning to simply code a pen to draw a shape and slowly but surely gained the skills to solve challenges like creating a program that could add numbers or tell us if a number was even or odd. Today students began creating a Scratch program that would retell fiction stories we have been busy writing. Our focus was ensuring our final product conveyed an introduction, rising action, climax, falling action and lastly a resolution. 

Coding!

Today our Grade 4s and 5s went old school! We took coding back to the basics as we took apart an old PC and learned about binary coding. Thank you David Galiffi from AMD for taking the time to help us further explore the world of coding. 

What is Your Word Worth?

Our Grade 3s were busy finding $100 words using a variety of math strategies.

Capacity

We Explored Patterns With Collected Nature!