Jobs in Our Community - Lawrence's Mom

This afternoon Lawrence's mom Narin came to talk to us about her job with Canadian Linen & Uniform Service.  She showed us tons of great photos and explained a lot about her company.  We learned that they make uniforms, clean uniforms, and fold uniforms. We learned that they make napkins and table clothes and most linen things like that.  We learned that her company is very large and it uses a lot of really smart computers.  Narin likes every part about her job although her least favourite part was working with the napkins.  When she worked with them she had to work really really quickly and if she wasn't quick enough the machine would beep at her at tell her to  hurry up.  She didn't like that part because she was already working really fast.

It was really great to have her visit our classroom and share her job with us.  Unfortunately Ms. Lirenman FORGOT to take photos of her presentation!  Ugh, she is very sorry about that and hopefully she'll get another picture of Lawrence and his mom soon.

Subtraction Mental Math Strategies

This week we have started to look at subtraction math strategies.  Today we talked about the strategy of one less than.  We learned that when ever you see a -1 subtraction equation the answer is automatically just one less than the first number.  To help us reinforce this strategy we played a dice game.

In groups of three most of rolled a twenty sided dice.  We then competed to say the number that was one less than what we saw on the dice.  Some of us were really fast at it, and some of us continued to improve the longer we played.  We tried to keep a tally of our scores, but most of the time we tied, so we all got points.  It was a lot of fun.

Here are a few videos of us playing the game.  Ms. Lirenman is still learning how to film so some are a  bit hard to hear but hopefully you get the idea of our game.  We are curious to see what other math games and secret math strategies we are going to learn this week.

Preparing for World Maths Day

On March 7th our class will be taking part in World Maths day.  We will be answering math questions on line while competing against children our own age.  Ms. Lirenman has given us a copy of our passwords so that we can practice both at school and at home.  Here's a little video of us practicing at school.

Guess What We Saw Friday Morning?

Unexpected SNOW!

It's too bad the rain arrived by lunchtime but it was fun to watch the surprise snow fall in the morning. 

Our First Video Made with Videolicious

Lately Ms. Lirenman has been allowing us to take more of the pictures.  Today she showed us a new app on our iPad called Videolicious.  Huda, Jennica, and Brooklyn took pictures with our class iPad while Claudine used the app to create the final video.  Here is our first Videolicious video.  Look for more to come.

Jobs in Our Community - Marcus' Mom

Today Marcus' mom Maricel came to talk to us about her job.  She's a nurse too but a different kind of nurse than Koden's dad.  She works with patients that have kidney problems and need to have their blood cleaned by a machine.  She told us that her favourite part of the job is helping make people feel better.  She told us that her least favourite part of the job is having to work long hours and late hours from time to time.  Here are some of the pictures she shared with us.

Community Read iPod Style

Today was our first Community Read with the iPods in our classroom.  Typically Ms. Lirenman has one iPad and one iPod to share with her students during community read.  Today she had one iPod for anyone that wanted one.  Almost every child wanted an iPod to read with their families.  Here's the proof!