We have been learning about the 10 provinces and the 3 territories of Canada. We found a video that helps us remember the provinces and territories and REALLY want to share it with our families! We have been spending a lot of time with place value and mental math. We have been learning how to build up numbers and break them apart. Students have been working with double digit numbers and are able to show a clear understanding of what that number is made up of...
34= 3 tens and 4 ones. If we know what a number is made up of, we can do double digit addition with mental math! In addition, we have been playing many place value games to strengthen our skills! Here are some of the games we are playing; -Place Value War -Place Value Bingo -Place Value Go Fish -Trash Can & -Race to 100 As we begin to learn how important BEES are to people and the food we eat, we wonder who else or what else was effected when the beehives were stolen from Nixon Honey?
We learned that in the United States farmers have migratory bees that travel across the country to pollinate their fruit fields! SO....if honey bees were stolen from a local farm...what effects might that have across Canada? Below is a visual that shows how a single colony of bees can be used to help pollinate a variety of fruit fields all across the United States. The yellow arrows show where humans have transported the bees for this purpose. Please remember that we will invite children to dress in ORANGE and BLACK on October 29th, but not in costumes. Families will be invited to decorate pumpkins at home for Pumpkinella and they will be displayed at school on October 29th. Our class will have the opportunity to view the pumpkins that day!
We are curious and we wonder what we are all dressing up as for Halloween. I welcome you to print off a picture of your child in their costume or e-mail me a picture at [email protected] and we will take time to share the pictures in class! Thank You to all the families that came to Parent Teacher Conferences!
I enjoyed meeting all my new families and re-connecting with my looping families. I look forward to a great year of learning together! Mrs. Sloane The term brood is used to refer to the embryo or egg, the larva and the pupa stages in the life cycle of a honey bee.
Bee brood frames are composed of brood at various stages of development, including capped brood and empty cells. Today we learned about brood frames. We learned that the brood of honey bees develops within a bee hive. In man-made, removable frame hives, each frame which is mainly brood is called a brood frame. Brood frames usually have some pollen and nectar or honey in the upper corners of the frame.
I love it when kids ask incredible questions...and today one of my students asked "what does 60,000 bees look like?'
We were discussing how many honeybees are in a hive during the different seasons. We learned that a hive consists of 20,000 - 30,000 bees in the winter, and over 60,000 - 80,000 bees in the summer. We are going to collect SMALL silver paper clips to show what 60,000 honey bees can look like. If you can, please donate 2 boxes of 100 small silver paper clips. Thank you in advance for supporting our BEESY adventures in our classroom! http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/bugs/honeybee/ |
AuthorMy name is Mrs. Sloane and I am excited to be your child's teacher this year. We have already started exploring new and exciting topics and I can't wait to see what else we will discover together this year! Please remember to check my Blog on as regular basis, as this is where I will update you with what is happening in our classroom! Archives
June 2016
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