What a freezing cold day. The kids had a blue day today and stayed inside for recess.
I am happy to report that my voice is almost completely back to normal. This makes me so happy especially because I can start reading books to the kids again. I sure missed being able to read to them last week. That being said Gena was a great helper last week and read a book about multiplication to the class.
Today at lunch Gracelyn and Gena attended their first Arbour Day meeting. These two girls have selected as Arbour Day Ambassadors. Gracelyn and Gena made a brief presentation to the class about what they learned:
- trees are important because they give us many useful things.
This includes
- oxygen
- they clean the air of carbon dioxide
- paper towels and paper
- wood for houses and doors
- other school supplies (scribblers and journals).
Today in gym we started gymnastics. This was super fun!
Today in math we worked on representing multiplication questions. We learned some new strategies today thanks to Jaelyn and Gena.
Jaelyn says "If you had a question and it was 5x2 it is exactly like 5+5".
- every question that you multiply by 2, all you do is double the other factor.
Gena says "If you have a question that is 5x1, you have 5 groups with one in each group and because there is only one in each group it has to equal 5."
- when ever you multiply a number by 1 the answer is always the other factor in the question.
We finished our inquiry projects today and we will be moving on to a new topic later this week.
Please remember to always bring your precorder to school on Monday and Wednesdays.
We have library tomorrow.
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