Week of June 13th

 This week has been busy! We have been working on many wonderful learning tasks to help represent a variety of learning outcomes. For example, in Math, the grade two and three classes have discovered the joy of playing board games and creating one. This week, their task has been to design a math board game that, when played, helps practice a concept we have learned this year from numbers sense, pattern and relations, shape and space or statistics. Before starting, we shared our experience about the qualities that make a good board game. The suggestions were wonderful and helped establish the quality of work we strive for.  



We look forward to finishing our games and playing them in class this week. 





This student even applied his learning as it relates to 3-D nets and decided to create his own dice from a cube net. Way to go!!! 


In physical education this week I introduced the students to a game that I used to love to play as a child called Jumpsies. It was a real hit!


It is a simple game played around the world and all that is required is three players and a large elastic sting ( found in any sewing stores or dollar store) While it is easy to learn, it is a game with infinite variations and ways to play. What sets Jumpsies apart from other rope games is that the rope stays still while the players jump over it.  Below is the jump pattern we learned this week called the American. 


Math with Ms. Yasin this week was full of estimating sums and differences. Students used their knowledge of rounding to the nearest 10 to estimate answers for addition and subtraction questions. The group had insightful discussions around when they could use estimation in their daily lives. For example, they could use estimation when shopping, when planning how many birthday party supplies are needed or when measuring length or distance. 




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