May 16

In Math we have been practising a variety of different strategies to help us add and subtract.  We've learned how to use doubles, thinking doubles (ask your child to explain this one!), counting up and making ten to add.  Counting back and counting up are subtracting strategies we have worked on.  We will continue to work on adding and subtracting during the next two weeks by writing and solving story problems and using related facts (or fact families).

Our Social Studies lessons have focused on the First Nations Peoples. We discovered how they helped the newcomers and what the fur traders traded for furs.  Today we made story robes in Art.  We discussed how First Nations People recorded their stories hundreds of years ago:  drawing pictures (using berries and plants, sticks and bones) on buffalo hides.  Students had a lot of fun crumpling up paper bags (aka buffalo hides) and then drawing important events from their lives (see above pictures).