Orange Shirt Day!

3 Things We Learned Today:
1. "In Math we learned to count by 5s to see how many columns we colored  when we counted by 5. We noticed that we only used 5 and 10 numbers." K.O.
2. "In Science we are going to do an experiment tomorrow. What will happen when we put water in a plastic glove and freeze it? What will happen when we light a candle? What will happen when we heat a marshmallow? What will happen when we heat an egg?" A.C.
3. "In Readers Workshop we learned a new game that uses the two blends 'wh' and 'ph'." A.D.

Today was Orange Shirt day. We started reading a book called Malak'wa Talks to the Loon. We will finish it tomorrow. Ask me what the problem in the story was.
We had a talk today about how the Aboriginal people were the first people to live in Canada. Then some explorers came and forced many people from their homes. This made them feel sad and not wanted. We wear our orange shirts to remind us that everyone is important and is okay to live where they want.

We have been counting by 2s, 5s and 10s and looking at patterns we find when we count by these numbers. What do we notice when we count by 2s? What do we notice when we count by 5s? Today we saw similarities of counting by 2s and 5s. I encourage you to ask your child how knowing the patterns (which we discovered today) will help them when problem solving. A good probing question is: How will knowing the pattern of counting by 2s, help you to know what comes next in this pattern.....62, 64, 66, 68....  Or....how will the pattern of counting by 5s help you solve: 25, 30, 35, __, 45, 50, __?

Reminders:
1. We would love one more volunteer for Thursday morning's field study to Prince's Island Park. If you can help out, please email me.
2. No school next Friday, October 11th.