Wants and Needs

Students were confident in their equation work this morning. They defined what an equation is and worked easily to show subtraction facts for given numerals.

Students did much independent work with list 2 spelling words, writing different kinds of sentences, and distinguishing between sentences and fragments in language.

We continued working on our communities unit. Students recalled what they had learned about urban and rural communities yesterday. Today we wondered about the definitions of needs and wants. Students discussed what these terms meant and came up with definitions. Ask your child to explain what a need and want is. They sorted items  as needs and wants and defended their reasoning. A few questions have surfaced in this unit:

• Are mining and lumbering communities urban or rural communities?
• What communities do First Nations people live in?
• Why don't we see many First Nations people in our community?

The children attended gym class with Mr. Browning today. We made sure everybody's water bottle was filled up on such a hot day.

We ended the day working on arithmetic. We reviewed the values of coins and bills and the different ways to represent values using dollar signs and cents signs.

We ended the day beginning a novel study. We will be focusing on literature circle roles as we work through our novel, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl.

 Homework and Reminders:

• Spelling
• MMS p. 10 & 11
• Arithmetic p. 5 & 6
• Terry Fox letter
• Keep brining in small boxes
• Trip on Thursday