Mad Minute & Predator and Prey

Announcements:

• Bring in your 2L pop bottles!
• Orange Shirt Day on Friday
• Yesterday's Fort Calgary Field Trip was a success and students learned a great deal about Canadian History in a hands-on and experiential way. 

Math:

Mad minutes started today to encourage students to develop their quick facts / multiplication tables. Tricks we discussed include:

• Anything times 0 = 0
• Anything times 1 = itself
• 9 times table using hands
• Start with 2’s, 5’s and 10’s when this is a new practice

Students graphed their success and will continue to do so in the next couple weeks. Hopefully this will be motivational as they will see their improvement.

Question of the day: A carpenter bought a piece of wood that was 7.5 metres long. Then she sawed 6.7 metres off the end. How long is the piece of wood now?
***Visit IXL or Khan Academy for more practice

Science:

We reviewed key terms:
predator, prey, consumer, producer, carnivore, herbivore, omnivore, decomposer, food chain and food web

We then went outside to play Predator and Prey (or the food chain game). Playing the game outside was a fun way to solidify some of these concepts. 

Question of the day: What did we see on top of the St. Patrick’s Island sculpture on yesterday’s lunchtime walk on the Fort Calgary Field Trip?