Daily Message: February 26

Beginning tomorrow we'll be practicing the rest of the subtraction facts in math class. I've suggested that the children resume the two-minute nightly review of facts, focusing on subtraction. The lunchtime used book sale gave us a chance to do some truly relevant problem solving. At the sale hard cover books cost 50 cents and soft cover books cost 25 cents. We began by dividing a paper into eight rectangles. Then we wrote an amount in each rectangle (25 cents, 50 cents, all the way up to $2.00). The problem consisted of finding out how many ways we could spend that amount. For example, if a child had $1.25 she could buy five soft cover books OR three soft cover and one hard cover, OR two hard cover and one soft cover. If your child brings money for books, you might have her figure out the possible combinations for that amount of money.

In health class we evaluated the results of our 'egg-speriments' involving eggs, coca cola and vinegar.  Ask your child about what they observed when we took a close look at the eggs.  Then we watched a film about animals and their teeth and how their teeth tell us about their diet.

Yesterday we shared the story of Peter Rabbit. Today we learned how that story came to be written. Be sure to ask your child to relate how Beatrix Potter came to write that classical story.

Barb