Good afternoon everyone!

I hope you had a great night!

Important information and reminders:

It is hard to believe, but the time is here already – re-registration is upon us! Re-registrations forms have been sent home. The deadline to re-register is February 9. After that we open up spaces to the public. Do not delay – reserve your spot today for grade 5!

International Mindedness Day will be taking place on Friday, January 20 from 2:30-3:15 and parents are more than welcome to join us. This is an in class project, which we will be working on from now until January 20^th. The country we have chosen is Japan and students have been placed into groups.

Year Ahead Day will be taking place on Wednesday, January 25. This allows grade 4 students to spend a day as a grade 5 student. Students always look forward to this day! 

Language

Today we continued work on our Japan International Mindedness Day project. We used the research we collected over the holidays and began the rough copies. A reminder that all work is to be done in class and all final copies will be due by Thursday, January 19.

Homework –

Math

Today we started off by completing multiplication chart. Students had 5 minutes to fill in as many as they could. We will be doing something similar to this every day before we start our lesson.

Today we looked at multiplying numbers 0-9. We took a closer look at a multiplication chart and found out how to use it. We found out that 5 x 8 = 40 and so does 8 x 5 = 40. We also realized that any number x 1 will be that number (10 x 1 = 10) and any number x 0 will always be 0 (9 x 0 = 0).

Some strategies are repeated addition – 3 x 4 = 3 + 3 + 3 + 3 = 12, using arrays (pictures) - ****  ****    **** = 3 x 4 = 12. There are 3 groups with 4 in each group. Skip counting is another strategy - 5 x 7 = 5, 10, 15 20, 25, 30, 35 OR 2 x 6 = 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12. Using a number line or multiplication chart are other useful strategies.

Homework – MMS pg 56-57

-Complete multiplication chart

UOI

Today we continued looking at Islamic religion. We began to fill in a festivals chart. Tomorrow we will complete a Venn Diagram to compare the religions we have discussed! We also finished up our UOI Global Connections presentations. Once again they were very well done. Excellent job grade 4s! Information on the summative assessment will be sent home tomorrow. 

Homework - Finish Islamic festivals sheet

-UOI Summative begins next week and will be due Friday, January 27. More information will be sent home later this week. It will consist of students creating their own religion.

Have a lovely night!

Mrs. Hocevar J