Wednesday October 23

Word Problem Wednesday got our day started. It was tricky for some to understand how to solve a couple of the problems. All the questions could have been solved using addition, but some students figured out that multiplication was a faster way to find the answer. As always writing a sentence to answer the question from the problem is required and this caught some people. A simple sentence is all that is needed, but it has to answer the question. This took us to music and gym and when we returned the class worked on writing their plant or animal riddle for the matching activity.

 In the afternoon the challenge question was focused on making a personal decision whether to live like the first nations on the land or live like the settlers on the land. Of course there was no wrong answer, but the reasons given for each choice separated good from great. We read a few chapters from Refugee and then had a question to respond to. Today's question was making a choice between who you would rather change positions with. Students were to choose their character using what that character's situation was like at this point in the story. Two characters are on a boat, different types of boats too and one is on land. This activity took way longer than expected and it took up the afternoon. 

Reminders:
- the Halloween dance is full to capacity so no new tickets are being given....sorry to those families after the cut off

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