Monday October 7

Welcome to Mental Monday! The students had 5 questions to try and answer without figuring it out on paper first. Some used pencil and paper to help with their strategy. Some students are forgetting to line up the place values before adding or subtracting if they are using the traditional algorithm. The questions are designed to allow for more flexible thinking strategies like making friendly numbers, or adding biggest place values first or even compensating and making the numbers easier. We read the book Love That Dog by Sharon Screech about a boy who does think he is good a writing poetry. The book is written in poetic prose so the story really shows line breaks and different poetic literacy methods of being descriptive. A fire drill interrupted the reading, but we finished it once back in the room then had a snack. After this the students worked on their ecosystem research using PowerKnowledge.

 In the afternoon, the challenge book was about responding to how can you show respect and responsibility. We had to discuss and share that there are many different ways to show these in the classroom and at home. After this we began making a place value chart in our visual journals using the population of Calgary, which is 1 512 539.25. We made it so it could be flipped up at each number. We are not quite finished it.

Reminders:
- field trip tomorrow! Dress for the weather, it is looking like snow and colder.
- winter jackets, snow pants, winter boots, touques, gloves, dress in layers, extra pair of socks? conserver lunch (lunch that does not need heating up and is garbage friendly), full water bottle, back pack

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