Decimal Addition and Subtraction & Adaptations Poster

Announcements:

• No school on Friday, September 21st
• Please return Forms and School Fees
• Field Trip to Fort Calgary on Tuesday, September 25th - please return forms ASAP

Math:

After the Front-End and Relative Size (rounding) Estimation quiz on Monday, we have been working on Adding and Subtracting Decimals this week. Students are encouraged to use their estimation skills to ensure the decimal is correctly placed and their answers make sense.

Students worked in groups last week to practice estimating and calculating addition and subtraction problems, as shown in the photo. They were able to correct their misunderstandings as they worked through the problems. All group members had to make sure their felt colour was represented on the poster.

Science:

Students are working on an Adaptations poster. They had the opportunity to go to Switch Zoo to create a creature of their choice. They had to decide what environment or habitat the organism lives in and come up with at least five adaptations (minimum 1 behavioural and 1 physical adaptation). The assignment requirements are outlined in the photo titled "SciJournal - Adaptations." 


Question of the week: The Gircheekey (part Giraffe, part Cheetah, part Spider Monkey) in the photo lives in the Savanna of Africa. What is one physical adaptation and one behavioral adaptation that will help the Gircheekey survive in this habitat?

If students created their Adaptations poster on Google Drive they share it with me at lebowen@educbe.ca. Some students chose to print their organism photo and write the rest of the details by hand and others drew their organism and did the entire poster by hand. All three methods of showing their understanding are excellent. If not using Google Drive they can hand in a hard copy or email their project to lebowen@cbe.ab.ca. 

They will have more class time on Thursday to complete this poster along with time to set goals on Iris. 

Adaptations Poster is due Thursday.