Math Centres

Brooke – Today in the first 2 periods we did math centres.  We only got to 1 centre and I was at a dice rolling centre, and you had to add the dice up.  My partner was Kaelan and Ashley.

Heidi – Today on January 16^th we were doing math centres and at my centre we were doing dice rolling and we had to either add or subtract them.  My partner was Tristan.

Emma – In the first 2 periods we were doing math centres and I was at the white board centre where you had a partner and you give people adding or subtracting questions. My partner was Dylan.

Matthew – In the first 2 periods we started math centres and I was at the math flexibility and I was with 2 grade 4’s.

Addy – On January 16^th we had new math centres.  My math centre was estimating.  We had to guess how many paper clips, light bright or blocks were in 1 jar.  My partner was Jessica and we were way off from the actual number.

Kaelan – Today we had new math centres and I was at the one that you had to roll a dice with a partner and my partners were Brooke and Jonathon.

Tristan – Today we did math centres and some of them were new and some were the same as last time and the new ones were the dice inside the dice and you roll them and you either pick addition or subtraction.  My partner was Heidi.

Dylan – For white board math centre we had to write a subtraction or addition questions and you had to ask your partner if they wanted a 2 digit or 3 digit number.  After you did the question you would use the calculator to see if you got it right.

Salina – On Wednesday we had math centres and I was at math flexibility.  You both had to flip a card and whoever said the right answer first would get the cards.

Science Habitat Clay Boards

Jonathon – January 16^th, 2013 we are doing our clay habitat projects and I am doing the arctic and I am pretty much done.

Jessica – On Wednesday we are going to do our clay boards.  I finished yesterday.  When you are done you have a choice of doing a daily 5 choice or a mini clay board.  Yesterday I did daily 5, but now I am going to start a clay board.

Sydney – At the next two periods we are working on our clay boards and I am working on a smaller one because I finished my bigger one.  You are allowed to do anything on that one and I am putting my name on it if there is enough room.

Jolene – Yesterday I finished my clay board and I was doing the arctic.

Joseph – We are going to present our boards next week.  Mine was ocean.

Tyson – Last week started our clay habitats.  My habitat is the rainforest.  I like everybody’s habitat.

Maddox – Yesterday we were working on a sheet for our clay habitat.

Taylor – Yesterday we were working on this white sheet that was double sided and there were questions we had to answer.  Some questions on the sheet were what are the 4 components, food chain, predators and prey, plant adaptations and animal adaptations.  We had to draw our food chain.

Science Centres

Dante – The 4 centres were: listening to sounds in the hall, guessing sounds ion the radio, matching vocabulary, vocabulary on the white boards.

Tyson – Last week we worked on science centres.  My second centre was listening to sounds on the radio.  Some sounds were hard and some were so easy to figure out.

Taylor- We started science centres and my table got to two, both stations were about vocabulary.  My favourite vocabulary station was matching the vocabulary cards.

Dylan – Tomorrow we are continuing our science centres.  We have two more centres to go.

Kaelan – My first centre was out in the hall and we had to listen to noises and record what we heard.

Jessica – A week ago we did science centres and my group did 2 centres.  One of them was matching up the vocabulary and my partner was Addy and Sydney.  The second station was that we had to write the vocabulary you couldn’t remember on the white board to practice.

Addy – We are doing science centres and we got to only two centres and the first one was matching vocabulary words and they had numbers on the back, so when you were done you could check to see if you were right if the numbers matched.  The second one was writing vocabulary words on mini white boards and the ones you had trouble with you did first.

Jonathon – Last week we did science centres and my first one was going around the school and listening for sounds.  My favourite sound was Mrs. U eating chips.

Salina – When we did science centres last week we only did 2.  The first one I did was go to the radio and listen to sounds.  We had to listen and guess what they were.  The second was going into the hall and find sounds, we couldn’t make the sound.

Emma – When we were doing science centres my first centre was vocabulary.  We had to write on mini white boards.

Matthew – Last week when we were doing science centres, my first one was sound on the radio and one of the sounds was really confusing because it sounded confusing.  My second one was in the hall and you had to hear the sounds and I was paired up with Maddox and Salina. 

Math Centres

Maddox - We are doing new math centres this week.  We are studying 3-D shapes, 2-D shapes, estimation and mental math facts.

Heidi – Yesterday we had new math centres and we did one. The one I was at was the estimation.

Dylan – One of the centres we did for math centres was math BINGO.

Emma – When we were at math centres I did math BINGO.  My partner was Tyson. 

Salina – On Thursday we got new math centres and we only got to do one.  The one I was at, we had to get magazines and cut out shapes and glue them on chart paper.

Dante – On Thursday January 24^th, 2013 we started new math centres.  There were four of them and we only got to do one.

Sofia – On January 24^th we had new math centres.  We only did one and the one that I did was the math BINGO.  You had to roll 2 dice or 3 dice, if you get 6 then you grab a BINGO chip and put in on the sheet and you try to get 4 in a row and you win.

Brooke – This week we started new math centres.  There were 4 new ones and we only got to one on Thursday.  The one I was at was estimation and Heidi and I partnered up.  We estimated straws, buttons, popsicle sticks and tabs.

Tyson – This week we started our math centres.  My first centre was BINGO.  My partner was Emma. Emma won the game because I made a mistake and couldn’t get a 16 because we didn’t use 3 dice.

Jessica – Yesterday on Thursday we did math centres.  I was at the centre where you got a piece of paper and you had one die and your partner had one die.  You had to roll it to see what the number would be and then you had to roll to get the right answer. My partner was Addy and we did well on the adding side and the subtracting side was a little confusing.

Kaelan – Yesterday January 24^th we started new math centres and I was at the estimation centre.  I did not have a partner.

Sydney – Yesterday we had math centres.  We only got to one, the one at my table, you had to roll the dice and then you would fill in the top with the number you got and then you would fill in the bottom with the next number you got and then after you would roll the dice to see if you got the answer.  My partner was Nathan and he had to switch between me and Taylor because there were only 5 people at the table.

Nathan – January 24^th we started new centres and my partner was Sydney and Taylor.  I had to switch back and forth because they didn’t have partners.  The centre I was doing was you had to roll a dice and fill in the paper and roll the answer. I won every game except with Sydney, we tied 3 times, but that was it.

Addy – Yesterday January 24^th, we were doing new math centres and my table was the same as Nathan, Jessica, Taylor, and Sydney.  We had a partner and we rolled a dice and filled in the blank with the number we rolled. Then we had to roll the numbers to make the answer and the other side was the same but with subtraction.  My partner was Jessica.

Joseph – My table group had to find 2-D shapes or 3-D shapes and then put them on the big sheets of paper. I was the only one to find a heart shape, but I didn’t put it on yet.

Terrarium Happenings

Taylor- Today we were looking at our terrariums and some are getting tall, one of them already has a flower growing.

Jonathon – Today January 11^th, people started checking out their terrariums to see if they started to grow, and 1 has bloomed.

Jessica – On Friday our terrariums have grown a bit and mine is about to sprout and only 1 hasn’t grown.

Dylan – When we came back from holiday break we saw our plants grow a lot and some went out of the bottle.

Brooke – January 11^th, 2013, most of us looked at our terrariums and we all saw one that is blooming and it is Nathans, mine is still really short.

Emma – On January 11^th, 2013, I was checking my plant and it hasn’t grown since we were back and Nathans grew a flower today.

Jolene – At lunch recess we were looking at our plants and mine is growing out of the bottle.

Kaelan – Friday January 11^th, I looked at my plant and it isn’t very big but it has 6 stems growing.

Nathan – As others have said, mine has grown a flower and I am pretty sure more will bloom soon.

Heidi – Today on January 11^th, 2013 me an others looked at our terrariums and I saw that mine has not grown since Christmas holidays.

Matthew – Today some people started looking at our terrariums, and we were supposed to take them home after Christmas break and now some are blooming and coming out of the bottles.

Tyson – This week we have been looking at our terrariums a lot and lots of people have tall plants and some are small.

Addy – Today January 11^th I checked on my terrarium plant and it hasn’t grown much and it is still a little green stub.

Mrs. Kosolowski – The neat thing about our terrariums is that they are growing but we have never watered them except for when we first planted them.

Science Habitat Boards

Kaelan – On January 8^th, we started making our habitat clay boards and my habitat is the grasslands.

Matthew – Today we started to put the background on for our habitat project.

Dylan – Some people were quick so they got to start their texture and their animals.

Jonathon – Today we started making our habitat clay boards and my habitat is the arctic.

Tyson – This afternoon we started our clay habitats and it was sort of hard on your thumbs because the clay was so hard and my habitat is the rainforest.

Emma – On the last 4 periods people were really working hard on their projects and I liked all of them.

Sydney – Today for science when we were doing our clay habitat it was taking us so long we went right to the last period and my habitat is the rainforest and I was trying to make a gazelle and I didn’t know how to make one so I had to look it up on the computer.

Tristan – Today after daily 5 we had science and we started our habitats and we made them on white boards and my habitat is the desert.

Dante – For science we are doing habitats made out of clay and they all include plants and animals.

Nathan – On the best January 8^th we started to make our habitat boards and my habitat is the ocean and now it hurts so much that when I rub something with my thumb it feels like clay.

Jessica – On Tuesday we started our clay habitat boards and my habitat is the mountains and I am the only one doing the mountains and I have only done the background and my thumbs really, really hurts.

Sofia – On Tuesday the 8^th, we had science for 4 periods in the afternoon and we had to do the background first and we had to smooth it out really thin and after when you are done smoothing it out your thumb hurts for like 10 minutes.