Tuesday February 11th, 2020

Dear Parents,
We had a blast this afternoon designing our Valentine's Day envelopes to receive our Valentines from our friends tomorrow!  The exchange is optional!
Students are welcome to wear PJ's, bring a stuffy, and if you want to bring a snack to share for our afternoon Valentine's Day party then we are happy to eat it!

FYI
Valentine's Exchange Wed. afternoon
PJ Day with stuffies (optional)
Bring in Sugar Cubes if you haven't done so already(for a science project)
Bring in 2L milk/juice cartons for our outdoor rainbow igloo next week
Fun Lunch tomorrow
Home Reading- some of us have requested to have Home Reading.  Make sure you record the book you take, and return daily.  If you want to begin Home Reading and haven't yet, just ask!
**spelling list.   A parent made a good catch! I accidentally put "stare" twice for the yellow list.  The word is suppose to be "share" ... it has been changed on blog.


Our Learning:
"I liked making our art designs on our Valentine's envelopes."-Maha
"remember we can make a valentines' box at home if we want."-Leina
"I liked making our Valentines envelopes!"-Charlotte

We worked on our seasonal activity poems today! It sure is tough... but we will get there!  Some poetry patterns we looked at ... AABB, AABBCC, AB, ABC
.... and the easiest is ABCB:
roses are red,        (A)
violets are blue,    (B)
sugar is sweet,     (C)
and so are you!    (B)

In math we are working on our mental math skills, we got to try out "one more, two more... and one less, two less strategy with the 'referent' of 10.
10.....
one less    10-1=9
two less. 10-2=8
one more 10+1=11
two more 10+12

Because this is a strategy we know pretty well, we began to use it when adding and subtracting numbers to 100.

We tried:
10+10, 10+11, 10+12

20+10, 20+11, 20+12

30+10, 30+11, 30+12

..... all the way up to 100! And back down again.....

Mental Math is AWESOME!

During Daily 5 we worked on our writing, and practiced our spelling words in Literacy Centers.   We ran out of time do do Science... we will be looking at artist Ted Harrison & reflecting on how he portrays the vast Arctic landscape using hot and cool colors, simple lines, and beautiful northern lights.

For Homework

Teach your family how to use the one more/two more, one less/two less mental math strategy with the following:
10+2
10+1
10-1
10-2
20+2
20-1
30+10
30+11
30+12
40+11
60-10
60-11
80+10
80+11
90+10
90-10
90-11

*Remember:  If I know how to skip count by tens, then I can add or subtract using the one more/one less strategy!

Strategies:
If I know how to skip count by 10s, forwards and backwards then 11 is only one more, and 12 is only 2 more!
If I struggle to remember, I can use a hundreds chart to refresh my memory!
I can also use a number line to show the 'neighbor' numbers.