Happy Mother's Day!

Happy Mother's Day weekend! I hope all the mamas out there get spoiled with all kinds of love on their special day!
I just had to share this adorable pic of my two babies!

Fraction Practice

This afternoon we practiced some more fraction problems.

Here are a couple samples that are similar to the ones we solved in class:

1. Charles has 10 gumballs. He eats one-fifth of them. How many gumballs has he ate?

2. Jerry has 16 gumballs. He eats half of them. How many gumballs does he have left?

Fractions Test

On Tuesday May 14 we will have a unit test for fractions. I do not have a practice test for this unit but I will send home math duotangs each night for review. In addition, I will post sample problems throughout the week.

Today we learned how to find fractions of a set. Below is a screen shot of some of the work we did.

Join us For Morning Message

This week is Catholic Education Week. On Tuesday morning I have invited moms and dads to come by our classroom to participate in Morning Message. This is one of our favourite times of the day where we use the Smartboard to learn new things, review old skills and play games. Morning Message allows us to connect each morning, it sets the tone for our day and is an overall great way to build community in the classroom. Usually it is first thing in the morning but on Tuesday we will have an extended version starting at 10:40 until about 11:40. We hope you can make it!

Dance Party!

On Friday we had a mini dance party in our room. I can't stop smiling when I watch back the video. They are so into it... it's adorable!

Dance Party

Urban and Rural Communities

Today we began our final social studies unit for the year. We will be learning all about urban and rural communities. We had lots of great discussion this afternoon about the different types of communities that make up Canada. We pulled up some pictures from the internet of different communities and made inferences as to whether we think they were rural or urban (based on what we have learned so far). I predict this will be a great unit with lots of engaging conversation!

Fractions

Today we began Unit 8: Fractions.
Fractions are very similar to division. It is taking a whole of something and splitting it into equal parts.
Right now we are just getting comfortable with naming fractions and splitting a whole into parts. Attached is a link to an online fraction activity. It is from a "Grade 2" site but is American. This activity aligns with what we did today in class.

Fractions Activity