Choose and solve one of the following in as many ways as you can. Make sure to check your answer.
Jayda has 678 bottles. She decides to put them into groups of 5. How many groups of 5 bottles does she have? Will there be any bottles left over? If so, how many?
Mayah has 7406 buttons to make a snowman craft. She needs 6 buttons for each snowman. How many snowmen can she make? Will there be any buttons left over? If so, how many?
Students had their final class time to work on their scooter share questions.
In math, students worked in small groups on vertical spaces with 3-digit by 2-digit division using the partial quotient and standard division strategies. Some examples from today were 658 ÷ 25 and 851 ÷ 22.
This afternoon we went outside and did some sketching of leaves and trees. Ms. Steeves sent us on a hunt to find items such as a: simple leaf, compound leaf, leaf with a smooth leaf margin, leaf with a serrated margin, single needle leaf, double needle leaf, tree with needles in clusters. We were able to find examples of all of these in our school yard.
We discussed the possibility of snow that is coming this weekend and whether snow is good or bad for trees. Many thought that the snow is always good for the trees because it provides precipitation and water for the tree. When we were back inside, we watched a news story from several years after Snowtember 2014.
CTV Snowtember News Story
We paused the video when the branches were all breaking and students thought of reasons why this might be happening. Some reasons included:
- the tree is still getting energy from the leaves so it is a little weak and not as strong as it would be later
- the snow was making the branches heavy- we wondered why trees wouldn't break as easy with the snow in the winter
- the branches are heavy with the leaves already and are then breaking under the weight of the snow
the bigger surface area of the leaves is catching the snow and making it to . heavy for the branches to handle
We discussed why all of the branches we saw were from deciduous trees- students thought it was because coniferous trees are used to the winter and their needle shaped leaves are thin so they wouldn't catch as much snow. All of this scientific thinking supported by their understanding of trees and leaves was great to see.
We finished the day using microscopes and magnifying glasses looking more closely at a variety of leaves and their internal structures.
- Terry Fox Run tomorrow afternoon. Parents are welcome to join us. The weather is changing, so please come prepared as we are running rain or shine, just like Terry! Bring a Toonie for Terry if you can.
- Bring in leaves to look at under the microscope
- Special Lunch- Boston Pizza tomorrow for those who ordered
- Dare to Care "Take the Time" day on Monday
- Orange Shirt Day on Tuesday, October 1
- Return choir forms if interested
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