Good afternoon everyone!

I hope you had a great weekend! It is Kase’s 3^rd birthday today, so my mom came down for the weekend and we had a small family birthday celebration. Tonight is pizza and Dairy Queen Treatzza Pizza, as per the birthday boy’s request!

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! 

A note from Mrs. Smith and Mr. Foster - The Grade Ones will be turning their classrooms into grocery stores for our Organization unit. The students have been working really hard to stock it full of healthy snacks and drinks. On Tuesday Jan. 17th we will be opening our stores to SJA classes to purchase healthy snacks and drinks for $1-2. All proceeds will be donated to the Sick Kids Hospital. Thank you for your participation!

The grade 4's will be visiting the grocery store on Tuesday at 12:00, so please bring in some change to help support the Grade 1's and Sick Kids Hospital!

Language

Today we continued work on our Japan International Mindedness Day project. We began conferencing and creating our good copies. A reminder that all work is to be done in class and all final copies will be due by Thursday, January 19. Monday we will begin putting together our good copies.

Homework – bring in Japan artifact if you have something

-Bring in some spending money for Mrs. Smith’s grocery store

Math

Today we focused on using arrays (pictures) to solve equations. We used the boar, and students to demonstrate!

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. Remember that 5 x 8 = 40 and so does 8 x 5 = 40, 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).

Homework – MMS pg 58-59

UOI

Today we began our UOI summative – creating our own religion. Students were given a brainstorming page with topics they would have to include in their presentation. We will be working on rough copies this week and then next week we will begin good copies and setting up our display boards for presentations on Friday, January 27.

Homework – Bring in a religious artifact

-Our UOI summative will be due Friday, January 27. ALL WORK IS TO BE COMPLETED IN CLASS. Students will have to create their own religion from scratch. They will be given a template to brainstorm ideas and then form a display board with all the information. The first week will mostly be spent on rough copies with final copies and display board set up the following week. Students will need to bring in their own display board.

Have a lovely night!

Mrs. Hocevar J