Happy Birthday, Cole!

In Math today, we shared Number Stories and wrote related number sentences.  As we wrote number sentences, we noticed that all of the numbers were in each number sentence! 

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Cole received 8 Happy Birthday wishes from his friends.  After recess, he received 5 more Happy Birthday wishes.  How many Happy Birthday wishes did did Cole receive today?

8 + 5 = 13
5 + 8 = 13
13 - 8 = 5
13 - 5 = 8

In Language Arts, I tripped over Deleani Forchuk!  I dropped the picture book I was carrying - the pages were all out of order!  I gathered up the pages and read it anyways.  We found it VERY difficult to understand.  This unorganized story reminded us that we need to make sure that our stories are organized with a beginning, middle and end in order for our readers to make sense of what we are trying to say!