Monday, November 24

 Hi parents, 

We had a pretty good day today. In the morning, the students just wrote about their weekends - we haven't done a classic 'weekend journal' in a long time (since September I think!) so it was cool to see the progression. We also reviewed conjunctions, and why you usually can't start a sentence with 'and'.

In math, we looked at subtraction with regrouping across zeroes. Using the stamp game, of course. This is another tricky algorithm to grasp, but when students are able to physically model the regrouping process using the materials, it makes it a little easier.

We went over this week's spelling words, and the 'oa' vowel team.

In the afternoon, we watched the short film 'Hewn' (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjLC5ky94ns) and had some cool discussions around it. It's a very artsy little film. There are a lot of ways you could interpret it, which makes it a great introduction to the idea of art / stories having both figurative and literal meanings.

Parent Teacher conferences are on Thursday and Friday this week, please book a spot if you have not already done so. :)

Have a nice night,

Zac

Our interactive Wayside School Display is finally all finished, and will be up for Conferences!