Division, Mini book planning and Science Venture

The school made the paper for the field trip yesterday

Two notices were put in mailboxes today

We began the day reviewing division.  I showed several videos from the internet on how to do division.  The goal was to help students understand division and learned the steps (algorithm) for long division.  The videos gave several different ways of remembering and doing long division.  The steps being basically estimate, multiply, subtract, bring down.  The students then had an opportunity to work on simple division problems.

After recess we began working on a mini book on creating a Super Hero.  This extends the unit on creating comics from when Mr. Stokes was here and really caught the attention.  The students are designing a superhero with a logo, catch-phrase, hide-out, vehicle, side-kick, costume, etc for themselves.  The students will make a superhero handbook and comic book.


After lunch we had special visitors from the university of Victoria.  The visitors presented a special program called Science Venture.  Science Venture is a non-profit organization that offers hands-on, minds-on science, engineering and technology learning opportunities for youth entering grades 1 through 12.  Their goal is to interest students in science and they also offer summer camps and workshops throughout the year.  Today our class our class had a presentation of activities on Weather and Light.  They showed us Magic (science) tricks.  It was lots of fun and it was interesting.  It was a field-trip right here in our class.