Weekly Update - December 2, 2022

Wishing you all well as we enter the final month of the year, wow! Thank you so much to everyone that took the time to connect and discuss student learning last week during our November conference time. It was wonderful to have families back in the school again and the ability to meet face to face. 

Our learning have been incredible this week! Students have been extremely successful in our work looking at computation with money (grade 3) and decimal numbers to the hundredth (grade 4). Students are highly motivated as they know that as we move through this mathematical work our end goal is to be designing and constructing our own ornaments to take home for the holidays! This will be our gift from teacher to student this year. Next week, we will be looking at multiplication strategies and the following week (Dec. 12 to Dec. 16) we will be working on our ornament task design and problem solving. 

We have also been looking closely at the elements of stories and applying summarizing skills as well as identifying physical traits and character traits. This has been connected to the short story The Paperbag Princess and our read-aloud Wishtree. 




Unfortunately, it has been pretty cold this week so we have had to stay in for one or both our Recess times. During one of these days we were resourceful and took the opportunity to play Gaga Ball in the classroom. 

Here are some math games we have learned in school that you can play at home: 

Decimal Game: Decimal Game

Multiplication Squares: Multiplication Squares

Friendly Reminders: 

  • Thursday, December 15 - Winter Concert @ 7:30pm 
  • Thursday, December 15 - Healthy Hunger 
  • Thursday, December 22 - Last Day of School 
  • Friday, December 23 - January 8 - Winter Break 
  • Monday, January 9 - Classes Resume 

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