Monday, January 20

 Hi parents,

Today the students continued working on their Little Prince planet / asteroid writing task. There are some really awesome, creative ideas being developed, they've been so fun to read.

In Math, we continued working on measurement. This time we learned about the relationship between centimeters, meters, and kilometers. The students used rulers to measure the height of a partner. Then, we recorded all the results, and tried to line up in order from shortest to tallest, based solely on those measurements. All around, they did a pretty good job - it's tough to be overly precise when measuring with a 30cm ruler (and repeating it over and over), but I think everyone was within ~10cms of their actual heights.

We are going to have a Multiplication Quiz on Thursday, Jan. 23!

This quiz will be a general review of the multiplication concepts we've learned so far. 

There will be some multiplication basic facts, for both grades. Grade 3's will have to use repeated addition to solve two fairly easy 2-digit by 1-digit problems. Grade 4's will use the standard algorithm to solve some 3-digit by 1-digit problems. There will be a couple of word problems. There will be one problem where students have to use rulers to calculate the area of a given rectangle. Grade 4's will have a slightly harder variation of this problem.

Based on what I've seen from Morning Math and daily work, nobody has anything to worry about - we're ready for this one.

In the afternoon, we did Daily LA, Spelling Practice, and learned how to play a card game called "Sticks". We ended our day with some Around the World Math Practice.

Blog Homework: Look at a map of Canada. Write down the provinces that are East of Alberta. (+1 table point)

 

Have a nice night,

Zac