What is Songkran?
This amazingly popular (and wet) Thai festival will be held while we are on holidays, so your task is to write about your plans for Songkran. Are you out in the sun, trying to throw water at everyone you see and soak them … OR, do you hide inside to stay dry? Let [...]
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Sorting and Organizing Plastic Bags!
If you don’t know already, Room 210 has decided to collect 1000 plastic bags. This is to give us a better idea of what the number 1000 really represents. We will begin by grouping them into 10s, and once we have 10 bags, a group of 100. Today, we have already [...]
Continue reading about A New Reading Unit … and homework trial period.
Well, we are trying to make the process of getting organized to go home easier. Writing in our homework books takes time, and getting organized to go home even longer. So, we are going to change things up a little bit. From now on, students will write only the homework tasks which change on a [...]
This week, we started our second Math unit of the year - Surveys and Line Plots. After spending the last month and a bit reinforcing addition and subtraction skills, as well as recording our steps to solving problems, it is nice to move on to a new challenge. This unit will really engage the students, [...]
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