Wednesday, January 18

 Hi parents,

We had a pretty good day today (and yesterday - sorry for the lack of blog).

The students finished writing their Martin Luther King Jr. paragraphs, edited their work, and some of them even shared them aloud with the class. 

We are currently working on two very different topics in Math.

First, we are learning about perimeter and measurement. The students completed worksheets which really put their perimeter-finding skills to the test. 

We are also continuing to work on multiplication. Each day, we're practicing skip-counting by different factors of 12. The students are already pretty comfortable with 2's, 5's, and 10's, so the next step is filling in those gaps. The new math curriculum basically says that Grade 3s should know up to 10x10, and Grade 4's up to 12x12. I figure the more practice the better, so we're all striving to achieve the Grade 4 level for multiplication recall.

This is another one of those skills where any and all practice you choose to do at home will undoubtedly help!

We've started an inquiry! It is about 'wisdom'. Our inquiry question is: "How can wisdom help us to live well?"

We've had some awesome class discussions about this topic. We've talked about how being 'wise' is different from being 'smart', and how wisdom often connects to topics and virtues that are impossible to measure. For example, respect, kindness, bravery, compassion, etc. 

For our Wisdom inquiry, we'll be learning about 'wisdom' from different times, people, and places. We're starting with the indigenous Seven Sacred Laws. But we will also look into all kinds of other philosophies and philosophers, including Marcus Aurelius and Socrates (my favourite guy).

We ended our day with "Little Prince Trivia".

Have a nice night!

Zac