Tuesday, September 24

 Hi parents,

Today was fairly similar to yesterday, but without the Terry Fox run. We continued using the Stamp Game to practice 4-digit addition with regrouping. The students are doing pretty well with this concept and really only make mistakes when they rush. Since the addition problems were going so well, we tried a few subtraction ones as well - also with regrouping. That was tougher. 

For writing, we talked about the idea of a 'complete sentence'. A lot of students have been completing writing tasks by writing a whole bunch of ideas down, and then adding periods after. This is a really terrible habit for writing that almost always results in incomplete sentences. We practiced writing complete sentences by writing a sentence for each spelling word.

In the afternoon, we did Daily LA, and then had a conversation about Orange Shirt Day. We mostly talked about the historic events that led to indigenous peoples being treated unfairly. We watched this episode of Molly of Denali: 

While the episode focuses on indigenous people in Alaska, the experience that Grandpa Nat had as a child is quite similar to that of Phyllis Webstad, who had her orange shirt taken on her first day of school. We'll be talking more about orange shirt day tomorrow, and of course on Thursday (Thusday is orange shirt day at LBS).

We ended our day with Music.

Have a nice night,

Zac