The website Mathman Rounding was being played during math this morning on the Smartboard - it appealed to a lot of the children and they wanted to play at home. It can be set to round numbers to the nearest 10, 100 and 1000. Sit with your child as they play and see what they know about rounding numbers.
We used a number line to round numbers today - keeping in mind the strategy of the poem we learned yesterday. Children were then rolling dice and rounding the numbers to the nearest 10 or 100.
We've noticed that nonfiction books, such as our social studies text book and the rocks and minerals books we've read, have a lot of information in them and sometimes it is difficult to determine the important information. Good readers are able to sort the information and figure out what is most important. We were given six items to take camping - a sleeping bag, a deck of cards, a flashlight, lipstick, T.V. remote and an umbrella. Students were to determine which was very important, kind of important and not important at all and provide a reason. Part of the challenge is to convince me that they have made the right choices. We will play games like this in several different ways several different times to help students determine importance.
Pillars of Care Assembly Friday @ 8:15 - congratulations to Sadie, Yoyo and Tahseen
I'm off to Ottawa tonight for the Grey Cup so a substitute will be here tomorrow and Monday. I will be back Tuesday to send you all the news of the classroom.
Go Stamps GO!
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