Reminders about Next Week - January 20th-24th

A few reminders:

-On Monday, January 21st we will have a special guest in our Math class. Kelly McGee is a Math
 Consultant from the Board and she will be working teaching us how to make use of the valuable tool of number lines
-There is no school on Tuesday, January 21st due to the teacher's strike. There is no school Friday, January 24th as it is a Professional Development Day (PD DAY) As a result, there will be NO WORD STUDY during the week of January 20th-24th!

Have a great weekend!
Mrs. Stratford

Math Duotangs are Coming Home!

Today your child is bringing home their math duotang so be sure to look for it in their school bag! It contains samples of your child’s work completed in class.  Assessment and evaluation of your child’s progress in math is based on work completed in class, teacher-observations, conversations that demonstrate math thinking, participation, etc.  You may want to review the work with your child. Feel free to complete any unfinished work with them at home. Kindly leave all items in the duotang. 

Please sign the notice attached to the duotang in order to confirm that you have reviewed the contents of the duotang. Kindly return it to school by Thursday January, 23rd, at the latest.  Many thanks!

New Year's Resolutions!

Today your child is bringing home their '2020 New Year's Resolutions.' I have suggested that they post it somewhere visible at home so that they can keep their goals in mind throughout the year and make a plan of action towards achieving their goals! 

New Year's Resolutions and Goals

On Monday we watched the Kid President Video (see below) about positive New Year's challenges. During our carpet time at sharing circle we talked about the idea of fresh starts, resolutions and goal-setting. We did a 'turn-and-talk' in order to brainstorm and share ideas about goals we have for 2020. Students then completed their own poster of goals/resolutions for 2020.

Kid President AWESOME YEAR Challenge!

Family Life - Unit 2

Yesterday we began the second Fully Alive Family Life Unit 'Living in Relationship.' Please look for the 'Family Letter' in your child's agenda today for more details about the concepts covered in this unit.

Math Update - December

We have wrapped up our unit on patterning and have begun to explore algebraic equations and solve equations with missing numbers. In Math Up it explains that 'an equation is a statement of balance. What is on one side of an equation is equal to, or balances with, what is on the other side of an equation. These are all equations: 4+4=8, 4+4=6+2, 2x4=8, 8=4x2' 

This week, we will also begin our unit on Data Management. The learning goals of this Math Up unit are:

• Create and interpret stem-and-leaf plots.
• Create and interpret double bar graphs.
• Compare two data displays by making inferences.
• Understand how to figure out a median and what a median tells about a set of data.