Subtraction, Coding, and Story Making

Reminders:

• please remember to return the following items to school on Monday:
• Weavings
• Library Books
• Home Journals
• Please continue to bring in items for our makers space (for design thinking challenge for our Arctic problems)
• Dates to remember:
• Mar. 5 – Grade 2/3 Celebration of Learning – 6:00 – 7:00
• Mar. 19 – PM parent/teacher/student conferences  4:30 – 8:00 (bookings open March 12 at 5:00 pm)
• Mar. 20 - parent/teacher/student conferences  8:00 – 12:00 No school for students
• Please visit Ms. Mann's blog for extra practice for the celebration of learning performance: MusicBlog

Learning Highlights

• In math we moved on to learning about subtraction. 
• First, we used manipulative and Unifix Cubes to understand fact families. 
• Then, we tried solving word problems that required subtraction. Try these at home:

remember to use our CUBES strategy when breaking down a word problem: 

Use cubes to solve this:

• Then, we expanded on this understanding of subtraction by learning how to add two-digit numbers using the stacking method. 

• We were able to draw on our understanding of regrouping from addition to then see how to use regrouping when subtracting. 

• Afterwards, we tackled some arctic inspired math word problems then coded Dash to demonstrate the math:   

Here is how one group decided to program Dash with code to show how their answer:

• For literacy, we have been working away at developing our arctic stories. We are working on our story mapping and then using loose parts share our stories orally. 

Here is a student sharing their story for the first time:

We will continue to share stories to each other, give & get feedback, and further develop and refine our stories.