Make Ten Facts

Today we learned a math game to practice our "Make Ten Facts". 

It is our goal to be able to solve our basic facts using MENTAL MATH STRATEGIES. 

Basic Facts are our adding and subtracting facts adding two numbers (addends) to a sum of 18. 

The children will learn strategies to help them solve these facts.  Some strategies work better for different facts. 

When seeing the fact 1+9=_____, if would be super inefficient to count one then add on 9.  It would also take a long time and be prone to counting errors. 

When a student sees this question they need to decide which strategy would work best.

They might flip the addends to make 9+1=___, then say 9 and add on one more (as it can be efficient to add on one or two). 

Today we learned about Make Ten Facts.  These are addends that go together to make 10.  Today kids would see 9 and know that it needs 1 more to make 10.

The kids have used the TEN FRAME cards to play many number recognition games.  They should be able to SUBITIZE numbers 1-10.  Ex. 9 is 1 less than 10,  7 is 5 and 2.

These cards help the children see how the numbers "fit together" to make ten. 

Make Ten Facts: 
10+0,   9+1,   8+2,   7+3,   6+4,   5+5

Our solitaire game looked like this:

Have your child explain how they played the game.   You could play it with regular playing cards as well.

Today in Social Studies, we read a story called Franklin's Baby Sister.  It helped us talk about changes in our lives.

Franklin's Baby Sister: Before/After chart:

Writing Expectations

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Today we talked about the expectations for writing. We looked at exemplars and a rubric. This rubric was created by teachers. We are working on creating the next one together as a class. These expectations are for September and October.

Big and Small Problems

 

I can solve small problems.

Today we talked about big and small problems. Small problems can be solved by students. Some examples include, a student budging in line, a friend using your pencil, someone sitting to close to you. Students brainstormed these small problems and drew pictures and wrote sentences about small problems.

  

Communication Folder

In order to keep you informed of the work we're doing in class, we'll be sending home some of your child's work. Today we're sending home some science work they we've done in class. Please have a look at the work and talk about the new(or familiar) vocabulary we're using to describe our sense of touch.


There are also picture order forms and some other notes for you to have a look at in the communication folder.

Monthly Math Game

In class we play math games to help us practice skills we're learning. Each month we'll post a math game that you can print off and play at home too. The more we practice our math skills in various settings, the more fluent we become.

Check out our sunflowers

 Today we looked carefully again at Vincent Van Gogh's sunflowers.  We looked at the paintings attributes and contrasted it again with the style of another famous painter Pablo Picasso.

We thought about how we would know if we "were done" or had done our best work.  We made a checklist to refer to as we worked. 

We talked about brush size again.  Ask your child when they used their mama bear brush and their baby bear brush?

We also talked about how to use our palettes for our paint.  We challenged ourselves to work carefully so that we would have all of our colours to work with.  We discovered that if we mixed them without thoughtfulness, we would end up with just one colour....brown.

We also read Camille and the Sunflowers.  Based on an actual encounter and real people, this story about the life of Vincent Van Gogh, taught us the importance of being Safe, Caring Welcoming and Respectful.  We talked about how we can give kind compliments to our peers about their work, (even if we don't like their picture).

Looking At Art

Today we explored Vincent Van Gogh's painting: Sunflowers.


Children discussed how the picture made them feel and whether they liked it.  We talked about how art can evoke a variety of emotions....A piece art can make us happy, curious, confused, mad, calm...or many emotions at the same time!
Its main job, is to make us think and to evoke an emotional response. 

I can analyze art.

Today we started a process called "Looking At Art".  It is a series of questions that help the viewer look deeply at a piece of work. 
Today we started by looking for :
- different lines used in the piece....straight (vertical, horizontal, diagonal), curvy, wavy......
- different shapes found in the piece.... circles, triangles, rectangles...
- different colours used.  Here we used description (bright yellow, or warm colours)

...and described where we found them.  Ex.  I can see triangle shapes in the green leaves of a sunflower.

I can reproduce a piece of art.

We also begin our own reproductions of Van Gogh's Sunflowers.  This afternoon we talked about a sketch and worked on our backgrounds.

We learned about how a page can be positioned in Portrait or Landscape.  
We learned that the subject of a painting is the focal point, and that remaining negative space is the background.

We used a tempera "wash" to do our backgrounds of the table and the wall.

We learned how to do a "wash".  We learned that a big, thick brush works best and that long horizontal brushstrokes are fast and create a smooth finish.  We worked to leave no white space and to have a uniform background. 

Tomorrow we will add thick tempera paint to create our subject of the vase and the flowers.   We will choose smaller brushes so we can add more details.