May Language Thinking

Posted May 3, 2024

  Imagine you live in a world with only 20 words. You can use these 20 words as much as you want, but you cannot use any other words at all. In the comments, list the 20 words you’d pick.  Explain why you’d choose those words.    

May Creative Thinking

Posted May 1, 2024

If you send someone a single rose you are sending a message of love. You can send all kinds of messages with flowers. Florigraphy is the language of flowers. Hundreds of flowers and trees have been given meanings. Here are some of them. Imagine that you are making a bouquet to describe someone you look […]

May Math Thinking – Grade 3/4

Posted May 1, 2024

Sam, Carla and Sarah spent on afternoon collecting sea shells. Sam collected 11. If we add the number of sea shells collected by Sam and Carla, the total would be 24. If we add the number of sea shells collected by Carla and Sarah, the total would be 25 shells. How many shells did each […]

May Math Thinking – 5 Scoop Ice Cream Cone

Posted May 1, 2024

I have a 5 scoop ice cream cone. Each of my 5 scoops is a different flavour of ice cream. The five flavours are blueberry, chocolate, strawberry, vanilla and bubble gum. You don’t know what order my ice cream flavours are from top to bottom. However, here are some clues to see if you can […]

April Creative Thinking – Gr. 3/4 & 4/5

Posted April 15, 2024

April Creative Thinking – Gr. 3/4 & 5/6

Posted April 1, 2024

Click HERE to open your own copy in Google Draw.   Share the link to your drawing in the comments!  

April Math Thinking – Grade 3/4 & 5/6

Posted April 1, 2024

Jenn has half the Webkinz that Mollie has. Allison has 3 times as many as Jenn. Together they have 72. How many Webkinz does each girl have?

March Language Thinking: Write a Pi-em in Pi-lish

Posted March 7, 2024

This is the opening  of  ‘Poe, E., Near A Raven‘—a retelling of Edgar Allen Poe’s 1845 poem The Raven—by the American mathematician Mike Keith. The length of the all words, in all eighteen verses, of Keith’s version of the poem correspond to the first 720 digits of pi! Here is another example of a Pi-em: […]

March Creative Thinking

Posted March 1, 2024

Invent a five-line poetry form using rules on which you decide. Share the rules you used and your poem! My Rules: Line 1:  Subject Line 2:  2 colour words Line 3:  3 words ending with -est                                                               Line 4:  4 words that make a statement Line 5:  5 words that ask a question   My Poem: […]

March Creative Thinking – Gr. 3/4

Posted March 1, 2024

Click HERE to try Street Art, from the Tate Museum in London, England.    

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