Tuesday, September 17

 Hi parents,

We had an awesome day today. In the morning, the students once again greatly surpassed my expectations as we started writing our 'good copies' for the My Story writing task. I figured this would take about 3 days. Half the class is already finished. And somehow nobody is rushing. The work is looking really nice.

In math, we talked more about Place Value, and did an activity where the class determined the value of each digit in a number. So for example, in the number 45,982:

The value is 4 is 40,000.

The value of 5 is 5,000.

The value of 9 is 900.

The value of 8 is 80.

The value of 2 is 2.

Students used 10-sided dice to roll and create their own numbers. I intended this to be just for grade 4's, but the Grade 3's seemed more than ready to take on the challenge too.

In the afternoon, we did Mindfulness as usual, and then had our first official 'Daily LA' block. The students were split into reading groups, and engaged in a variety of different literacy stations while I read with a small group as well. 

After that, we revisited Kandinsky and had a fantastic discussion about some of his paintings.

We ended the day with Music.

Apologies for not sending home the 'blue forms' on time. They've been sent home now. Please fill those out at your earliest convenience and send them back.

BLOG HOMEWORK - SPELLING SENTENCES (+1 table point)

Write a sentence using at least 3 of this week's spelling words.

Have a nice night,

Zac

Terry Fox Run - Friday, September 20

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