Month: February 2016

Math looks very different than it used to.  The picture one might have had of math time was of children sitting quietly at their desks practising mathematical facts on their own.  We now know that children learn best when they can explore, play and engage in a lot of talk.  In Division 10, the children practice their mathematical skills through centres, games and puzzles.  [metaslider id=2514]

Division 10 has been learning to tell time.  We know that being able to tell time is an important life skill.  We learned that there is 24 hours in a day and 60 minutes in each hour.  We also know that the short hand tells us the hour and the longer hand tells us the minutes.  We were surprised that the hour hand moves forward as the minutes pass.  This made it tricky for us to tell the time.  Now that we can read the clock, when you say, “wait just a minute” we will be timing you.[metaslider id=2490]

Division 10 wondered what makes day and night.  We learned that every day the Earth makes one turn on its axis.  The sun shines on the Earth as it spins.  But sunlight shines only on the half of the Earth facing the sun.  That half has day.  The other half is dark.  That half has night.  As the Earth spins we move from day, to night, to day, to night over and over again.  We used a flashlight and a globe to show what we know.

Did you know that if the sun was hollow, you could fit one million Earths inside.