Harris- Room 8

Enjoying Literacy Day and our last day before the holiday baking muffins, making Christmas ornaments and building a fort for a quiet place to read in.

Over the last week, we have been extending our review of 2-D shapes to include 3-D shapes. We have discovered the attributes that help us to differentiate between 2-D shapes such as number of sides, vertices, size, and colour. We then discovered ways to categorize 3-D shapes. Several students wanted to extend their learning by knowing how they could put objects together that are different but also have 2 or 3 characteristics that they share. It was through this request that we discovered how handy a Venn Diagram can be.

Today  we started our new science unit, Exploring Liquids with the creation of a lava lamp.

I would like to give a warm thank you to Charlie's Dad, Charles and Charlie's Grandpa Jim for joining our class and sharing with us information about the history and significance of the Canadian fur trade. Jim shared with us wonderful stories related to his past experience working for the Hudson's Bay company and how trading shaped our economy. Through the use of incredible artifacts, the students were also able to learn more about specific animal adaptations and the roles they play in a food chain.

Today we played a simple game with two dice to practice our skill of counting on when adding.  What is the count on method? Counting  on is a mental math skill where, when adding two numbers, you begin  counting  from the largest number and add the second number to it.  Counting  on helps us figure out how many more we need of something and how many we will have once more is added.