Merry Christmas!  We have an unusual schedule this week, due to special events. This information can be found on the Weekly Memo. We are doing a classroom secret santa with all gifts being made at school. The students are very excited about this. Our exchange will take place on Friday.
Math: We are finishing up multi-digit addition. We may begin to look at subtraction.
Language: We have begun to look at opinion vs. fact.
Homework: With all the preparations getting ready for this wonderful holiday, no homework will be assigned. Students are always invited to go on Dreambox or Razkids at anytime.

Tomorrow (Friday December 15th) is our White Elephant Christmas Sale. Please send your child with money to purchase gifts for their family. All items are $1 or $2. Your child is invited to wear an ugly Christmas (or just a Christmas) sweater as well as a Santa or elf hat or reindeer antlers, etc. 

Math: We are continuing to look at and practice a variety of strategies for multi-digit addition. Students will work on problems this week and be able to use their prefered strategy.
Language: We will look at synonyms, antonyms and homonyms this week. The students loved listening to this song about these types of words.
Homework:        grade 3           grade 4

Math: Student created strategies used to solve multi-digit addition problems were sent home earlier this week. These are strategies we touched on last week and will continue to use this coming week.
Language: We looked at synonyms quickly this week, also spending time exploring fiction and nonfiction text features. We will continue looking at both of these this coming week.
Homework: Cursive writing homework came home on paper on Friday. This can stay at home for practice throughout the year. Also for homework this week please have your child practice their multiplication facts. These will be an asset for the year as we look at a variety of math concepts that will be easier for your child when multiplication facts are memorized.

We are pleased to have our student teacher from University of Ottawa, Ms. Erum, joining us full time starting tomorrow.
Language: We will look at synonyms this week. This was on our schedule for last week but the students enjoyed prefixes and suffixes so much we pushed synonyms to this week.
Math: We will explore a variety of strategies to add multi-digit numbers. Grade threes will add two digit numbers using mental strategies and three digit numbers using concrete materials and a variety of other strategies. Grade fours will do the same with four digit numbers.
Homework:         grade 3 and 4 homework

The students asked me to add this fun game to our blog so they can play at home.

Math:  We will continue to look at numbers represented in different ways this week. We will use base ten blocks and written words in more detail when dealing with numbers.
Language: We will look at compound words more closely this week, as well as looking at synonyms.
Homework: Each student brought home some religion/family life homework to be completed with parents. Please have this work returned to the school for Thursday. In addition to this, please see grade 3 and grade 4 homework.