Tuesday, October 29, 2024

Tuesday, October 29

 Hi parents,

We had another good day today. In the morning the students finished up their maps of our community. We also learned about streets and avenues, and about how many roads are named in honour of important people, places, or events.

Blog Homework - Important Roads in Calgary (+3 table points!)

Choose a road in Calgary. Work with an adult to research who / what it is named after. Write 3 sentences about that person, place, or thing.

            example: Deerfoot Trail is named after... They lived in... They were important because.... 

For writing, we wrote sentences for our spelling words. We talked a bit about alliteration, and how it can be used to make a sentence more interesting, or to create poetic effects.

We met up with our buddies and played a "Get to Know Each Other" board game. The students made Venn diagrams to showcase their similarities and differences. 

In the afternoon we did some multiplication work using the Montessori Multiplication Bead Board material. This can feel like a tedious way to solve multiplication problems, but its the best way I know of to build foundational multiplication and array skills. It pays off in the long run!


Have a nice night,

Zac


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