Wednesday, September 14

 Hi parents,

Today we continued working on place value, and played a game called "Place Value Bingo" as a class. For this game, we randomly picked ones, tens, or hundreds, and then rolled a dice. If the number rolled was in the correct place value spot on our bingo card, we crossed it off.

We talked about the meaning of the word 'quote', and brainstormed some examples of famous quotes. We talked about how most famous quotes contain some form of timeless wisdom or teaching, and that we can often continue to learn from these quotes even hundreds of years after they were initially spoken. Our favourite tree, Red,  from Wish Tree, just so happens to be full of wise quotes, and today, the students selected one of his many quotes and wrote about what it means to them.

This was quite a challenging writing prompt and it really got the class thinking. I look forward to doing more like it in the future!

Optional Blog Homework:

Find a famous quote and talk with your child about it. Students who share their quote with me tomorrow will earn 2 points for their table!

In the afternoon, we had gym and music, and read another few chapters of Wish Tree. 

I handed out scholastic book orders at the end of the day. If you are interested in placing an order, please include our classroom code - RC157953 - in your order, as Scholastic gives a decent percentage of it back to our classroom as store credit. With Scholastic credit, we were able to buy a whole bunch of new puzzles, games, and building materials last year.

Thank you and have a nice night!

Zac