Happy wonderful Friday.  I have been away from school for a few days but things seemed to have run very smoothly.  That is because your children are amazing!

This morning we continued to work on our Remembrance Day art.  We will post them in the hallway next week.

This morning we had our Friday Fun Snack.  The kids loved the smoothies but they were freezing afterwards.  Some even said they had a brain freeze :)

After this we had 2 rounds of Daily 5.  One of the grade 2 groups is working on a book about Asteroids.  We had a very rich discussion this morning about asteroids and dinosaurs

After Daily 5 we worked on math.  We have been learning about the doubles.  We represented the double in our math journal.  We thought of real life examples that represented each double.  For example 7+7 can be presented by 2 weeks on a calendar.  6+6 can be represented by 2 rows in a dozen of eggs.

After this we played a game with dice that helps us with basic addition skills along with the doubles.  This game you can play at home to help solidify your child's mental math skills.  Roll 2 dice, add those numbers together and then double.

Question of the Day:  How would you represent 9+9?  What is a real life example?  Or how would you represent 4+4 using a real life example?