Hello!!

What an amazing week. We are now in the swing of things! Congratulations to Matthew who won 5000 house points for his house by correctly guessing the national anthem for the United States!!!

REMINDERS

Please sign and check your child’s agenda daily.

Please send in after school money if applicable.

Lunch forms due Friday January 23^rd.

International Day is next Friday January 23^rd.

If possible please send in $5 to contribute to our food for International Day!!

MATH

They worked so well today in Math. I was very impressed. They seem to be getting the hang of multiplication and all the different strategies used to help solve the problems. The Grade 4’s worked on exploring patterns used in multiplication. For example 2 x 10 = 20 (the tens digit of the product/answer is the same as the number that is being multiplied by 10…all the products/answers have a ones digit of 0).

Grade 3’s began multiplying by 10. We used arrays and skip counting to help us. A strategy they used for 3 x 10 = 30 was 3 x 1 = 3 and 3 x 0 = 0 therefore the product/answer is 30!

LANGUAGE

Today was our first spelling test. I will have the tests marked by Monday! The rest of the time was spent catching up and working on Greece. Next week we will begin to put our project together. Please keep an eye out, as we will be requesting some Bristol board and a tri fold board. Thank you in advance for your help with this!!

U.O.I.

The teams finalized their gym game and explained it to the class. To finish off this fantastic week we played a game of Around the World – a multiplication game!

Have a wonderful weekend!!

Mrs. Hocevar :)