Monday, September 19

 Hi parents,

We had a pretty good Monday today!

In the morning the students practiced spelling and did some more advanced place value math problems, with numbers going into the millions. They were asked to write the value of a specific digit in a series of numbers. So for example, in the number 784,230, the '8' would represent '80,000'. At this point, the students are expected to be able to do this for numbers up to 1000, but once they get the hang of it, it's a pretty easy skill to extend into the millions and even billions. The hard part is just remembering the names of each bracket of numbers.

We had a moment of silence for Queen Elizabeth, and had a good class discussion about her life and legacy, as well as ways in which we can show respect.

The students wrote in their journals, either about their weekends, or about what they would do if they were king or queen of a nation.

In the afternoon we had Music and Gym. We also did a review of Wish Tree thus far. A lot of has happened - we had an interesting class discussion about the book's events, characters, and themes.

One word that came up at the end of the day was "Diversity", as it is one of the books central themes. The students didn't seem too familiar with it - even though they experience it every day at school! 

Blog Homework:

Talk with your child about 'diversity', and then ask them to create their own 'definition' for it. They could write it down, or just memorize it and tell me tomorrow. 2 points for the table of each student who completes this very secret homework assignment.

Have a nice evening!

Zac