Tuesday, October 10

 Hi parents,

I hope you all had a nice Thanksgiving weekend!

We had a good day back at school. In the morning, the students wrote about their weekends, and about the things they were thankful for. 

In math, we've just taken our exploration onto place value to a whole different level, by looking into decimals. This is a Grade 4 concept but I thought it could potentially benefit the Grade 3s to learn a bit about too, as it connects to fractions which we'll be doing later in the year. We're just looking at tenths and hundredths. The main idea I'd like the students to walk away with right now is just that decimals represent parts of numbers. We'll revisit this concept later in the year in a lot more detail.

There will be a Place Value Quiz / Assessment / Check-in, whatever you like to call it, on Friday, October 13. Basically the purpose of this will be to see whether we're ready to wrap up our Place Value unit. From what I've seen the students will do great. :) I'll post more info tomorrow.

In the afternoon, we had Daily LA and Music, and we discussed and learned about the -ar sound for spelling.

Have a nice night,

Zac