Hello Div. 18 🙂

I hope everyone had a chance to enjoy their weekend – despite this weather we are having! As we near the end of the school year, I have been asked by our school librarian Ms. Zimmerschied to pass along notices of overdue books that students may have had checked out since before Spring Break. I will email those families with the names of the books in question. Please drop these off in the bin at the Taylor Park front door so they can be returned to the library this week. If you do not receive an email from me about any books – it means your child has none checked out 🙂 Thank you. 

 

June 15th – 19th

Core Activities : 

• Read 20 minutes daily – just as we would have every day in our classroom for Daily 5
• Read the assigned book in your Epic profile, and please try to answer the questions about that book. This will help me check everyone’s understanding of the stories they read – just like we do during Daily 5 in school when you ‘Read with Teacher’ 
• Journals: Write a letter to your future self in September, using appropriate letter format like we have practiced. Write to yourself about how you are feeling, how the end of the school year has been, if you have missed anything, what you want to do this summer, or what you hope September will be like. Write about anything you would like to tell your future self 🙂 Sign the letter to yourself and put it in an envelope and ask an adult to put it in a safe place for you. If you remember, open it up in September! 
• Do the assigned activity on your Zorbit account
• Math: This week we will focus on double digit subtraction WITH borrowing. This means that when we are subtracting, the top number might be smaller than the bottom digit – we will then have to borrow from the ‘neighbouring’ tens group. I know that sounds complicated – but I promise it isn’t too hard once you start. Here are some charts to show my thinking:

Here are a couple videos to help explain how to do this subtraction:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pv8URIRgCdo 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egjDLFX9VHg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Buyaqe_L5-Y

For this week, I would like everyone to try these math problems:

You may notice that each of the questions has a lot of space beneath it – show your work. How did you count? How did you subtract?

 

Supplementary Activities :  

• This week’s class Zoom meeting will be on Wednesday, June 17th at 10:00am. Please join us if you can. The link will be posted on FreshGrade to remain private to only Div. 18.
• Art: This week we will be making tessellation artwork. Tessellations are an arrangement of shapes, closely fitted together. When we pick a shape and repeat it over and over in drawing, this creates a tessellation. Here are two examples I have made before: The shapes I chose to use are basic, just an arrow, or a plus sign. However, when you repeat them over and over and choose interesting colours, your tessellations become more and more complex. What shapes will you use?
• When you go outside this week for a walk with your family, or to play, I challenge you to try to make a rock sculpture, sort of like an Inukshuk. Inukshuks are traditionally made by Inuit peoples in the Northern parts of Canada to be used as signs or communication. The Nunavut flag has a typical Inukshuk on it:

You might recognize another Inukshuk here in Vancouver in English Bay :

The Inukshuk in English Bay was created by Alvin Kanak of Rankin Inlet for the City of Vancouver. This week, try to make your own rock sculpture by carefully balancing stones on one another to create a form. You might have to be very patient 🙂 

Here are some stone towers I found on a hike in Coquitlam this weekend:

 

As always, do what is comfortable for yourselves and your families. I am here to help so if you need anything at all, please feel free to reach out.

 

Ms. Vlasic