Mathematics -  Solving Problems with a Hundred Chart 

The hundred chart is a very useful tool for helping our young mathematicians find 

number patterns, add & subtract amounts and solve problems. 

Students created a mathematical stories that used the hundred chart to find  solutions. Please ask your child to show you how to use this chart 

to find how many books had been returned.

Mrs. Reimer said that 11 students from Room 6 had returned all library books

and 11 students from Room 7 had returned their library books. 

How many books had been returned?

Students created their own mathematical story and used the hundred chart 

to count up or count down to find a solution to their problem. 

Students also use the hundred chart to play a dice game 

that requires counting from 'rolled' one amount to the next.

 

Click on the hundred chart below to access a site 

which allows you to create amazing number patterns

Today the students returned from their weekend to find the classroom chrysalis's hatched into beautiful monarch butterflies! 

We watched a video showing a time lapse of how a caterpillar becomes a chrysalis then finally a butterfly.

Students drew detailed butterflies to decorate the wall near our butterfly cage. 

The butterflies feed on sugar water with a small piece of paper towel sticking out. They use their proboscis to feed on the sugar water like the nectar from a flower. 

Today a representative of the Calgary Public Library showed us some of the wonderful resources that students may access, 

and information on the upcoming Summer Reading program

 

The TD Summer Reading Club is a great way to keep kids reading all summer through fun activities, great books and prizes — and it's free!

 HERE'S HOW IT WORKS:

Starting Saturday, June 18 (the day of the Launch Party!) visit your community library to register and receive your TD Summer Reading Club booklet and Reading Ballots.

Then have fun reading! Books, magazines, trivia books, comics and everything else counts. Read for two hours each week (or be read to) and track your reading on the Reading Ballots.

Return your completed ballots throughout the summer for a chance to win weekly prizes and our grand prize: one of 20 $100 gift cards to Toys "R" Us. Be sure to return your ballots before August 31 to enter!

For fantastic staff-approved reading suggestions visit our Birth to Five page and our Kids page and check out our 2016 Year of Reading Guides too!

All services are free to students.

Ms. June read 'That is Not a Good Idea! 

by Mo Willems

  

Ask me about my favourite part

How did author trick us in thinking who was going be the dinner?

A message from Mrs. Reimer

 

The school year is almost over.

All books are due back in theLearning Commons on or beforeJune 13, 2016. 

Thanks!

                 

Mathematics 
Creating and reading a bar graph from a class survey

Today students wanted to find out which were the favorite choices of others
 in our classroom.



Students used the small white boards to choose a category and add choices.



Then they added the category and choices to a bar graph template.



Students asked others about their choices and recorded the data on their bar graph.



Students shared the information that they interpreted from their bar graphs.

Students are also making choices in the interactive book 

Would You Rather? 

by John Burningham

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• Which one would you and members of you family choose?

  
  
  

Today the students had a wonderful field trip to Heritage Park Historical Site!

It was a sunny day filled with excitement, learning and exploring the "How the west was once."

We began our trip around Heritage Park first being greeted by the Steam Train that is over 130 years old.

Next we travelled to an old style store where students were able to see goods purchased by settlers.

Students visited the Mountie station where they learned about the daily duties of a Mountie.

We then visited the old school house where the students learned about how classes varied in age and discipline for not listening in class was handled with a "strap."

Onto the Tipis!

Inside the "Yellow Otter Tipi"

The moment the students had been waiting for... riding the train!

We stopped off and learned about farming and ranching in the old west.

We stopped for a break at the playground where the students pretended to be train conductors, shop owners and settlers.

Our last stop, the Prince's house. A lavish house which is said to be "haunted" to this day!

Thank you to our volunteers for all your help!