Thursday, April 25

 Hi parents,

We had a busy day today. In the morning, we watched a couple more Kids Ted Talks, and discussed what the speakers did well, and what they could've done better. Then, the students started to write their own speeches, about one of the "5 R's". It was a bit of a struggle. We'll spend time revising tomorrow!

In the morning we also learned about the fact families of multiplication and division. For example:

6 x 4 = 24

4 x 6 = 24

24 / 6 = 4

24 / 4 = 6

The students had a bit of trouble with this too, and extra practice at home would probably be helpful!

In the afternoon we had Music and Daily LA, and then the class started working on posters to show their learning about India. I opted to do posters instead of travel journals, because we've had so many other writing-intensive tasks on the go lately and I felt we needed something a little different. I think it was a good call because the posters are actually looking really awesome so far, and I'm quite happy with the broad variety of information they've included. I was worried it'd just end up being 23 Taj Mahals.

Tomorrow is our spelling quiz. Have a nice night!

Zac