Announcements
- We are still accepting forms and money for the Family Christmas Skate on December 12th
- Student Led conferences tomorrow
- Return last page of report card
- JK- Grade 2 Christmas Concert December 10th
- Grade 3 - 8 Christmas Concert December 17th
- Student Led conferences tomorrow
- Return last page of report card
- JK- Grade 2 Christmas Concert December 10th
- Grade 3 - 8 Christmas Concert December 17th
JK- Grade 2 Christmas Concert
Today we had rehearsed for our Christmas Concert throughout the day! All Specialists were cancelled due to rehearsals.
Unit of Inquiry
Today we got to use the Chromebooks and zoom in on a variety of communities using Google Earth. Students were broken into groups and assigned two communities to explore on Google Earth. In their groups, they had to discuss what they noticed and were surprised about, along with what they still wonder. After exploring the two communities they were assigned, students had to reflect on the observations they made about the features of one of those communities. We will discuss these further tomorrow to see if we can dig deeper into our learning.
Inquiry into Math
We learned all about circle graphs and how to interpret and represent data in them. We learned that circle graphs are used to represent data of a whole.
Ex. Data that you collect based on the amount of people you survey can be represented in a circle graph because you have a total number of people (whole) that can be broken into parts (certain amount of people). (Ex. 12/ 36 people, 24/36 people).
Ex. Some data cannot be represented in a circle graph, such as dollar amounts, or km traveled since there is no whole to these scenarios. Both kms and dollars can go on and on.
Using an example in our textbook, we solved the total number of students from a survey by adding up the totals from each bar in the bar graph. Then we used these totals to write fractions for each category from the survey by putting the number of students who preferred that sport on the top, and the total number of students surveyed on the bottom. Then we looked at how when we add the numerators (top numbers) up, they should equal the denominator (bottom number- 28), which they did. 28/28 equals 1 whole.
Using the fractions above, we looked at how we can represent this in a circle graph that would be made up of 28 pieces. We started by dividing a circle into quarters as a benchmark since we all know what quarters are. Then we thought about how we can figure out what value each quarter represented. We did this by dividing 28 by 4, which gave us an answer of 7. This means that each quarter represented 7 students. We then started off with our greatest fraction (14/28). We realized that 14 is half of 28, which means that that sport should represent half of the circle. Then we looked at our second largest which was 11/28. We realized that this would fill a whole quarter, plus another three-quarters of the last quarter. The last part was to solve how much space we would fill for 1/3 and the last sport was 2/3. Lastly, we reflected on whether our circle graph was similar to the one in the book for this data AND IT WAS. Breaking each part up like we did helped bring to life how we can transfer numerical data to a bar graph.
Agenda
- Read for 25 minutes
- Math pg. 80 & 81 + worksheet on circle graphs
- UOI Instasnaps reflection worksheet
On December 10, 2019, students from Junior Kindergarten to Grade 2 will put on two performances at the St. Jude’s Dome. Our afternoon performance will begin at 1:00 pm, with doors opening at 12:30. Our evening performance will begin at 6:30 pm, with doors opening at 6:15 pm. Seating is on a first come first serve basis. Please keep in mind that outside food and drinks are not permitted in the Dome.
For our evening performance, families are welcome to take our shuttle from St. Jude’s to the Dome and back. Shuttles will begin running from 6:00-7:00 pm.
We encourage all families to come bundled up to stay warm and cozy for the entire show. The students and teachers have put a tremendous amount of work into their performances and kindly ask that all families stay and enjoy the show until the end.
We look forward to seeing you all there!
Today we had rehearsed for our Christmas Concert throughout the day! All Specialists were cancelled due to rehearsals.
Unit of Inquiry
Today we got to use the Chromebooks and zoom in on a variety of communities using Google Earth. Students were broken into groups and assigned two communities to explore on Google Earth. In their groups, they had to discuss what they noticed and were surprised about, along with what they still wonder. After exploring the two communities they were assigned, students had to reflect on the observations they made about the features of one of those communities. We will discuss these further tomorrow to see if we can dig deeper into our learning.
Inquiry into Math
We learned all about circle graphs and how to interpret and represent data in them. We learned that circle graphs are used to represent data of a whole.
Ex. Data that you collect based on the amount of people you survey can be represented in a circle graph because you have a total number of people (whole) that can be broken into parts (certain amount of people). (Ex. 12/ 36 people, 24/36 people).
Ex. Some data cannot be represented in a circle graph, such as dollar amounts, or km traveled since there is no whole to these scenarios. Both kms and dollars can go on and on.
Using an example in our textbook, we solved the total number of students from a survey by adding up the totals from each bar in the bar graph. Then we used these totals to write fractions for each category from the survey by putting the number of students who preferred that sport on the top, and the total number of students surveyed on the bottom. Then we looked at how when we add the numerators (top numbers) up, they should equal the denominator (bottom number- 28), which they did. 28/28 equals 1 whole.
- Read for 25 minutes
- Math pg. 80 & 81 + worksheet on circle graphs
- UOI Instasnaps reflection worksheet
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