Good afternoon everyone!

I hope you had a great weekend!

A note about parking:
A kind reminder that the spots near the front entrance and cafeteria are reserved for handicap parking. We do have families who need them and find they are often unavailable. Please feel free to park in the back by the turf in the designated spots or at Meadowvale 4 Rinks, or use kiss n ride.

Important information and reminders:

Spirit week is this next week! This is a fun filled week that we look forward to every year and it is a great lead up to March Break. Spirit week will run from Monday, March 6-Friday, March 10. Please see schedule below!

Tuesday, March 7 - Crazy Hair/Colourful Outfit Day - come dressed in colourful colours and/or with crazy hair!

Wednesday, March 8 - Princess/Superhero Day - come dressed as your favourite superhero or princess!

Thursday, March 9 - House colours - come dressed head to toe in your house colour!

Friday, March 10 - St. Patrick's Day Spirit - come dressed in your finest St. Patrick's Day attire!

House game fun!

Happy PJ Day!

Uniform reminders: JK- Grade 2 gym uniforms are to be worn on Mondays and Wednesdays. After a weekend where Monday is a holiday students will return to school on the Tuesday in their dress uniform. For grades 3 and up students are asked to come dressed each day in their dress uniform and bring their gym uniforms daily to change. Grades 4 and up should be wearing the blazer (or house hoody) each day. They will wear it in the hallways and on trips but have the option of removing it in the classroom. Lastly, our spring uniform will be in effect when we return from the Easter Holiday weekend. We will be beginning uniform checks over the next couple of weeks, so please ensure you child is coming to school everyday in their full uniform. Uniform violations will be sent home for students not in their proper attire.

Language

Today we began spelling lesson #25. We also took some time to update our IB Portfolios with work completed over the past couple of months.

Homework – Read for at least 30 minutes per day

-Finish spelling lesson #25

Math

Today we looked at patterns in multiplication. For example, skit counting by 2, 5, 10. We also realized that any number X 10 will go up by 1 in the tens and end with a 0 (1 x 10 = 10, 2 x 10 = 20) and that when you multiply a number by 1, you simply count up by 1 each time (1 x 1 = 1, 1 x 2 = 2).

Just a few reminders from our last multiplication unit!

Some multiplication 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 166-167

UOI

Today we started our fifth UOI unit – Rocks and Minerals. We began by emptying out our Medieval Times information and adding it to our IB Portfolios. We then began to create a title page and began working on our vocab words.

Homework – Finish title page.

-Find vocabulary meaning for first 4 rocks and mineral words

-Bring in rocks

-Bring in device

Title pages!

Have a lovely night!

Mrs. Hocevar J