Remembrance Day and Visual Math

Our class made a wreath for our school's Remembrance Day service. We talked about what bravery and Remembrance Day means to each of us after reading a picture book about the meaning of the poppy. We learned that poppies bloomed on the graves of soldiers and that the poem, "In Flanders Fields," was written by John McCrae (a military doctor) in 1915 during the First World War. Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae wrote the poem after seeing the devastating sadness of so many soldiers killed in battle. We remember those who sacrificed for our freedom.

In Math, we have been working with visual problems, including dot patterns. Miss Cichosz drew how different students saw the same dot patterns of six dots differently. We are learning that we can see problems differently and we worked in groups on exploring dot patterns in two rows. We shared what we found in groups with the entire class. Some of us noticed shapes in the patterns and noticed that some of the shapes continue in other dot pictures. We talked about how larger amounts of dots contained some of the shapes that we found in the smaller amounts of dots. Some students predicted what the next few dot pictures in the next row might look like. Our class will continue exploring this dot pattern another time with a third row of dot pictures.