Ok so who doesn’t love sugar?!?! It tastes so good – why wouldn’t you want to enjoy it!?! Well this week we questioned out thinking and found out that some of our favourite drink choices have a HUGE amount of sugar. An iced capp has 33 grams. A small (355 mL) 7-11 slurpee has 42 grams. Even a juice box (250 mL) has 30 grams. Who knew?!? Shocking, especially considering that kids should consume no more than six teaspoons of sugar a day (equivalent to 25 grams). After today’s discovery, next time we’re thirsty we might want to grab a glass of water instead. We are great Math thinkers!! This week we began working with long division using a strategy called The Box Method. This method involves determining how many groups can be made from the divisor as a whole, rather than working with individual digits. It builds a more conceptual understanding of division and uses lots of mental math. We loved the challenge and the thinking involved. It made sense! We worked through several examples together as a class and then branched off into smaller groups. Some of us even challenged ourselves with larger numbers! Our motivation and curiosity have had a positive ripple effect on each other. 😀 After writing a variety of different short stories, we moved onto the next step in the writing process: peer assessment. We were already a bit familiar with providing feedback to our classmates (methods such as two stars and a wish), but peer assessment is different in that it involves using the assignment criteria. To get us started, our teachers modelled what peer assessment looks like. They used an original writing sample of a story draft and demonstrated how to provide feedback. One of the criteria was My story has a clear problem, so our teachers modelled what to look for – “is the problem clear?” and “is it original?” and showed us how to provide feedback using those prompts. Watching peer assessment in action gave us a clear understanding of what is expected. When it was time for us to get started, we shared our story drafts first and then independently began the assessment. We recorded our feedback and made sure that it was clear and specific. Next week we will share our feedback with peers and then use it to make revisions to our story. It was a short week, but a busy one! Amazing how much we covered in only three days!
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