February 25th, 2022

 Hello families,

This week our work centred around Pink Shirt Day. To honour this day, Students read the book "The Invisible Boy" as a class. After reading this story we had a discussion around the words include and exclude. Students brainstormed what inclusion looks, sounds and feels like in the classroom. 

Students also had the opportunity to create their own slogans for a pink shirt day t shirt. The creativity and sense of humour shown through with this activity. 

I can demonstrate the importance of belonging for myself and others. 

In literacy groups with Ms. Yasin, students began a new novel. The goal while reading this novel will be to identify and understand the key components of the story (characters, story sequence, problem, solution) so that students can write a comprehensive summary at the end of the novel. 

This week in Ms. Yasin's math group, students began using their math strategies to work on subtraction expressions. Students practiced subtracting multiples of 10 without using their fingers or a number line. Student learned the trick of just subtracting the tens place value and leaving the ones place value the same (when subtracting multiples of 10). For example, with 56 - 20 we can think of it as 5 tens - 2 tens, and then put the 6 ones back for the answer. Their goal is to be able to do this without looking at a 100's chart! Students worked on a number riddle for "two's"-day this week (22-2-22!) and acknowledged 100 days of school by showing the number 100 in different ways!