Monday, November 8

 Hi parents,

We had a good day today, a pretty typical Monday all around.

In the morning, students wrote about their weekends in their journals, we learned and practiced this week's spelling words, and went to the Library to exchange books.

We watched another great Remembrance Day commercial (see below). This one is really cool because it forces audiences to make inferences and predictions, rather than explicitly telling them what happened.

I have really enjoyed our commercial discussions! It's funny because usually ads are the bane of my existence, but in November they're kind of awesome.

In the afternoon we did Literacy activities, including Daily 5, Sentence Writing Practice, and Literacy Games.

We ended our day with an introduction to multiplication!! I feel like we've gotten our fill of addition and subtraction and its time to kick things up a notch. We will still continue to practice addition and subtraction problems as part of our daily Morning Math, but the focus of math lessons in the near future will be multiplication.

We'll be starting with 2's, 5's, and 10's, because students are already familiar with skip-counting by those numbers, and they can apply that skill when multiplying. The Number Blocks episode below is my favourite way to introduce it.

Have a nice night!

Zac

Poppy Fund Donations

Students will be given a poppy on November 10th while honoring Rememberance Day at school.  If you would like to send in a monotary donation to support the Poppy Fund that day, it would be greatly appreciated.  You can also show your support by donating online by following the link below: https://legion.ca/donations