A few dots - but so many strategies and conversations from counting on, doubling, adding and multiplicative thinking. Steve Wyborney Grand Erie District School Board

Last week, I learned about sit spots. Feeling so lucky to have this space to reconnect with nature - even horses! Thanks to Grand Erie District School Board Indigenous team for a new addition to our mental health activities. Such great consolidation after about what we saw, heard and felt.

Our exploration table is featuring some beautiful gourds from Sawaya Gardens. Grand Erie District School Board How were these sorted? Daina Sakalas can your 4/5s guess the sorting rules?

Using Cathy Marks Krpan Concept Circles to explore different representations of decimals. If the middle block represents 1, how can we represent the following numbers? (Posted on the board in standard form, expanded form and written form).

Thanks Open Middle these engaging operating with decimals thinking questions. We loved them. Grand Erie District School Board

Thank you Toronto Holocaust Museum and Grand Erie District School Board for organizing this impactful experience. Regan Vankerrebroeck thank you, too!

Happy Halloween Grand Erie District School Board! A fun day of dancing, games and math!

Learning about the character attributes of an All Star from Q-Mack.

A bit behind but starting our block on NS and Measurement. Loving the Grand Erie District School Board MLRP lessons for this block, building an array model of our multiplication table. A powerful visual to understand how these facts are derived & relationships between numbers.

Trying out a new medium in art. After practicing some watercolor techniques, we put our skills to the test with still life painting. I think they are GOURD-geous ❤️

Yesterday, we didn’t get time to consolidate our learning. Today our Minds On was revisiting our task to consolidate our learning, followed by small group instruction, based on our observations and conversations.

STEM problem solving in action. What was the average distance travelled? Which car traveled the furthest? What were the variables? Not pictured: solar-dud cars 🫠

Working through Block 4: data - a combo lesson from the MLRP and Mathology - how to find central tendencies using snap cubes. Grand Erie District School Board

Desk Pet Adoptions are now closed! Working our way through persuasive writing using the interests of students - who doesn’t LOVE Squishmallows Comment or message for the Canva link

When our desk pets ran away, we read How to Catch an Elf, so we could develop a plan to catch them. We also thought, they may want a home. Thanks to Emma Dailey EL and Makedo for lending the tools! The students LOVED using the tools to create.

When you experience total engagement in Mathematics and can feel the synergy in the classroom. Peter Liljedahl ‘s new book is my favourite! Grand Erie District School Board

All ready for the Grand Erie District School Board Mount Pleasant Open House! Let’s do some Christmas math! Thanks MPS Grade 6 for partnering with me ❤️ Thanks Sarah Carter for the pentomino puzzles! They were a hit! 🎄

Coding our translations with a partner! Grand Erie District School Board this fun game is found on the Mathology grade 4 lesson!

Small group, targeted instruction, adapting a lesson from Mathology to move student thinking forward. Guiding Question: how many ways can we represent a pattern?

Making some sweets for our Valentines and working on fractions!