Thursday October 3

Our morning math today was Thinking Thursday! Thursday are our puzzle day where students have to use their number sense to solve various kinds of math puzzles. Today's puzzle was figuring out which number didn't belong in a set of four different numbers. The numbers were 9, 16, 25, 43. Each number does not fit the set for different reasons, it was up to the students to figure out the reasons that justify their chosen number or numbers. In the morning we also worked more on the ecosystem of their choice. We are getting the idea of how different ecosystems work and how each system relies on everything in it to stay healthy. That is our goal at least. We had our first library book exchange today, so everyone now has at least one good book to read. In the morning we also had gym. We started watching a great video from the CBC called the Nature of Things hosted by David Suzuki about the prairie grasslands. We took notes in our visual journal using a SEE, THINK, WONDER, CONNECT activity. 

 In the afternoon we worked on the math problems from yesterday just going over them to make sure that everyone was able to see how they were solved. The biggest area of challenge was the students not reading and understanding the question carefully enough. With more practice, this will get better and they will become more capable of successfully solving these types of problems. We continued watching the prairie grasslands video with room 52, 53 to end the day. It is pretty much finished, so we will discuss it in the future.

Reminders:
- only 2 people need to bring their field trip forms back.....Kinley and Mark....who will be first?
- there are still only 2 parent volunteers for this trip. That makes for larger groups.....please let me know if you are able to volunteer....email or call
- cost is $13.25 not $12 as per the letter....bus cost was higher for out of city...if you paid by cash would you please bring in $1.25 to make it correct, thank you

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