Wow! December Already!!!

Wow! The year has flown by and we are now in our final month of 2016! We celebrated the start of December with a couple fun class traditions. The tree is up and the students had a chance to each place an ornament! We also have a class advent calendar, where a different name will be chosen from a box to open and enjoy the chocolate for the day.

For Language Arts this week, we worked on a writing assignment given by the Devon Dispatch. The students were asked to think about a favourite Christmas memory, tradition or something they are looking forward to this season. They needed to complete a typed response in 50 words or less. They worked on these in "google docs" and were introduced to the tool "word count" in order to keep their writing under 50 words.

In Math, we continued working on regrouping hundreds, tens and ones. The students had to fill in equations like 5 hundreds+2 tens = _____hundreds+12 tens, They are able to draw out the numbers on whiteboards, scrap paper or use base ten blocks are manipulatives to build these numbers. We also have opportunities to play math games using a deck of cards. Ask your child to teach you one!

In Social, we are still working on our India Travel Journal. We have been reading about Ravi and the community he lives in. We learned about how decisions are made in India and the services available there. We discussed and compared this to what is offered here, in our community.

We have been practicing a lot for our Christmas Concert which is next week. The grade 3/4 concert will be on Tuesday night. We hope to see you all there. Please email us if you are unable to make it, as we would have to change up our order for the risers.

We added some glitter to the very cute Rudolph art that was made last week. Mrs. Kloschinsky asked for these to be displayed on the bulletin board in the gym. Please look for them when you come to the concert!

We continue to have many eager Home Readers, who continue to fly around the world.