Thursday, October 12

 Hi parents,

Today was a bit of a catch-up day for our class. In the morning, the students wrote complete sentences for all ten of their spelling words. We had a 90 minute work period to catch up on work from earlier in the week, and to complete this daunting task.

We met with our buddies and helped them to use the I-pads to access Epic and Storyline Online. We also had Music and a Fire Drill.

In math, we revisited the concept of rounding, and introduced the idea of rounding to the nearest whole number. The class caught on to this pretty quickly.

There is a bit of rounding on the quiz tomorrow, and I think it may benefit students to quickly review rounding to different place values, up to the ten-thousands place. 

You could practice this by taking a big number, let's say '41,837', and rounding it to the nearest ten (41,840), the nearest hundred (41,800), the nearest thousand (42,000), and the nearest ten thousand (40,000).

On that note - tomorrow is Friday the 13th, and it does seem to be shaping up to be an unlucky day, as we're also having our spelling quiz.

Have a nice night,

Zac