We have been busy preparing and creating our stores to make our learning about money more meaningful! We also took the time this week to explore our creativity and imaginations, and have some fun building. I cannot wait to see our commercials – stay tuned!
What is the theme of your store?
What are you creating to sell at your store?
We have been learning some fun dice games during math!
Add it!
Two players each roll a dice at the same time. The first person to say the correct answer of the two dice added together gets a point. The first player to 10 points wins.
Subtract it!
Two players each roll a dice at the same time. The first person to say the correct answer of one dice subtracted from the other gets a point. The first player to 10 points wins.
Pig
Players take turns rolling one dice. Each time they write down the number they get until they get to 10 numbers. However, if a player rolls a 1 they must erase all of their points and start again. The first player to 10 numbers stops the game and adds up both players points. The player with the most points wins.
Dice DPA
On a scrap piece of paper number 1-6. Together with a partner decide on rules for each number, such as:
Each time you roll the dice look to see what move you need to do and do it!
Which dice game is your favourite so far?
Do you like addition or subtraction better?
Mr. Loftsgard and his grade 6/7 class stopped by our school today with their amazing geodome projects! This fits in perfectly with our learning of geometry!
How did these students make their geodome projects?
If you could do this project, what shape would you create?
Check out these photos of our amazing learning celebration at the science fair:
What was your favourite part about the science fair?
Did you plant your plant at home yet? Are you going to grow anything else this summer? If so, what are you going to grow or what would you like to grow?
This month our class is working in small groups to prepare different salads for the class to try. This week students created a House Salad with ranch dressing. We set it up buffet style so that students could add their favourite veggies. Thanks to Mrs. Sharpe for this delicious idea!
What did you put in your salad?
What is your favourite kind of salad?
We are very excited to be learning all about multiplication! This week we have focused on the 2 and 3 times tables. We have been using the fun site, Mathletics, and have a free 2-week trial with it. This week and next week students can click on the link and log-in. Usernames and passwords were sent home in planners.
Here are a couple of videos to help us learn the 2 and 3 times tables. Thanks to Mrs. Sharpe for finding these fun songs!
What multiplication tricks have you learned so far?
What do you think about Mathletics?
Mrs. Kostiuk’s Class presents: The Mall of Radical Things
Opening in our class Friday, March 11 before spring break!
Looking forward to seeing you all back at school on Tuesday, March 29!
This week we helped Mrs. Sharpe’s class log onto Prodigy on the LearnPads. Prodigy is a math game that our class has been using for awhile. You can find it in our Math links under the Learning Links tab, too. Please use the padlet below to tell me why you like the game, Prodigy. Tell me why you think it is fun.
We have been learning about patterns in Math and today we got to create musical patterns. After checking out all of the fun the grade 3’s at our neighbouring school had creating musical patterns, we decided to make some of our own! Thanks for the idea, Mrs. Hammond and Ms. Sharpe! Check out their blogs to see what the other grade 3’s have been learning :).
Below is a playlist of musical patterns created in our class today.
What type of pattern did you create?
Which instruments did you use?
Did you know that today is International Dot Day?
We read the story, “The Dot” by Peter Reynolds, and were inspired to participate in dot day today by wearing dots, creating dots, eating dots, and playing with dots!
Check us out on twitter: @MrsKostiuk!
We went dotty in our class today! #DotDay15 pic.twitter.com/lJMttTBVV2
— Mrs. Kostiuk (@MrsKostiuk) September 16, 2015
What is “The Dot” all about?