Monday, October 17

 Happy Monday,

We had a great start to our week today and did pretty typical Monday activities.

In the morning, the students wrote in their journals, either about the weekend, or about something that scares them (in honour of Halloween). We talked about margins and how to use them to effectively organize writing. We also learned about the interesting history behind margins - apparently they were initially designed to indicate the portion of the book that would typically be eaten by mice.

We've mostly finished explicitly learning about place value in math, and have moved on to addition and subtraction. We talked about how we can apply our new and improved understanding of place value to help us solve addition and subtraction problems with huge numbers. For example, 100,435 + 6,701. 

A common mistake students make is to set up the equation incorrectly, instead of lining up the numbers based on place value. For example, writing it like this:

   100,435

+ 6701

instead of...

   100,435

+     6,701

Today the students just practiced writing equations into their math books using the grid paper as a guide. This organization skill will come in handy for adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing - especially in later grades!

We talked about the new spelling words, and how to change -f endings into -ves for plural forms.

Shoeboxes Wanted!

We are going to be making Diaramas for Wish Tree in the near future. If you have any shoeboxes, or similar sized boxed, please send them to school! I will send an official email out when we get a bit closer to the actual start date.

Book Exchange - EVERY WEDNESDAY

Just a reminder that our class will be doing Book Exchange at the library every Wednesday. Please remind your child to put their books back in their backpack for then.

Have a nice night!

Zac

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