Graphing Mystery!

Students were getting creative trying to figure out what the 'Mystery Graph' might be showing. Students were given a blank graph and asked what story it might be telling.

Some of their ideas: heart rate, money spent, traveling elevations, fundraising for Haiti, traveling distances, Tune of music, migration patterns of ducks... You get the idea!

Fantastic Flying Books!

We watched an award winning video short called, The Fantastic Flying books of Morris Lessmore. What connections can you make to this story?

Glogster Posters!

Some students chose to create their posters online using a new tool called Glogster. Check them out!

Remembrance Day

My grandfather and four of his brothers went to war. He is the one at the bottom left. So grateful that they all made it home safely. Remembering them, and others who gave their lives for our freedom.

Grade 1D Buddies

Dear parents of the students of 6pike,

Today we went down to one of the grade 1 classrooms and helped them with technology. One of their daily 5 activities is reading books online with various online book readers (tumblebooks, starfall, e.g.) . We had lots of fun! First, we helped them memorize their code and log in. Once their desktop loaded, we helped them get to the book readers and listened to an online book with our buddies! Once they get to know how to use the laptops very well, we hope to make an online little bird tales with them!

Written by,
Aidan & Angelo

Mathemagician TEDtalk

One of my favourite TED talks is by a math professor named Arthur Benjamin. He can do amazing math-magic tricks and I was lucky enough to see him live a couple of years ago at a math conference. He has a new talk about a special pattern called Fibonacci numbers that goes nicely with what we are learning about patterns right now. Enjoy!

Parent Toolkit

Hi Parents! I am sharing a resource from the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) called the Parent's Toolkit. This site has supports for math from Kindergarten all the way through high school. If you want support with what math learning is like for children these days, here is a good place to start.

Parent's Toolkit