Today we connected with Ms Lirenman’s grade one/two class to have two Mystery Number Skype calls. The grade ones tried to guess a number between one and twenty and the grade twos used numbers up to forty. We’ll be using progressively higher numbers as the year goes on.
We have had a pre-service teacher visiting our classroom this fall. Wednesday was her last day and she brought treats with her! Thanks, Ms. Lewis!
Later, we visited the cultural fair put on by the grade 8’s and had more delicious things to snack on.
Today while we were doing “Read to Someone” we didn’t just read to kids in our classroom. We also read with students in Ms Lirenman’s class in Surrey, B.C. via Skype. Learning with kids who live 1600 kilometers away!
Our school community contains some of the most generous people I know. Year after year, they give towards all of the charities and projects the school sponsors. Thank you, Westmount!
All of the classes in the school participated in Operation Christmas Child, so when the time came to deliver the boxes to the waiting ambulance for transport, all the students chipped in to get them there.
One of the ways we practice math concepts is by playing math games. These games help to reinforce concepts and stretch the students’ math thinking.
Whether it is subitizing (the ability to know, without counting, the number of objects in a familiar grouping)…
…or counting on from numbers…
… it’s always more fun if it is part of a game.
This week we made paintings that took us several days to complete. First we used painter’s tape to make shapes. Then, we painted those shapes different colours.
When they were dry, we pulled off the tape. I heard shouts of delight all over the classroom as the students revealed their gorgeous paintings.
Each student’s painting is on his or her blog, but here is one final product as a teaser.
We’ve been having weekly Skype calls with Ms Lirenman’s class in Surry, BC to play “Guess Our Mystery Number” and to improve our sense of numeracy. We’ve been slowly building up to larger numbers. This week we used the numbers up to forty. This is what it looked like during the call as Ms Lirenman’s class tried to guess our number (you can see it taped on the calendar in the top right of the picture).
And then we tried to guess their number. You can see that we were getting very close.
Here are some of the Halloween moments from our classroom.
The day before, we talked to Ms. Lirenman’s class on Skype. Each student in both classes acted out their Halloween costume to see if the other class could guess who they were. Some of the costumes were tricky!
We read…
We had a mystery number Skype call with a class in Florida…
And best of all we had snacks.
