Happy Rosh Hashanah! to the families who are celebrating.
Thanks for being patient with us in the month of September as we update IEPs, prepare for Curriculum Night (next Thursday, 6:30-7:30), and assess the students to see what their individual needs are. Oh, the forms... Thank you for your support in getting forms in. Please be sure to send them along as soon as possible if they are still at home. A message from Mme Gooden: -Word on the Street, takes place this Sunday, September 24, 2017 and the Mosaique, the French Bookstore located within the Alliance française, will be there. Word on the Street runs from 11 am to 6pm. -The Toronto Public Library has leveled readers for French Immersion students. The collection is from the Quebecois editors called Escalire. Please speak to your librarian to help you and your child in locating and selecting books. Equally of interest to the grade 4/5 age group and for those who would like to read interesting short stories in French, the library has a large collection of the paperback magazine J'aime Lire. English Writing - Halloween Story Project In English writing students will be writing a fictional mystery story about a made up event that took place in our classroom, 109. Our classroom, with its history of being LL's Science lab has many qwirky things in it such as old microscopes, beaker jars for chemistry, a large rock and mineral collection, and a painted fireplace at the front of the room. On Monday, students wrote down ten things that they observed in the room that they could use in their story. Our grade 4s are new to writing in English. They will receive a lot of guidance and the emphasis at this point is on the joy of writing. The editing steps and spelling checks will come later. Students will share their finished stories in costume on Halloween! This week's English homework (if it is not completed in class) is to begin creating a story map for their story. We will edit the story maps next week to make sure students have their ideas organized before they begin writing. Math We have begun the year looking at number patterns with a focus on the many patterns in the multiplication table. The curriculum for Grade 4s is to know their times tables up to 9x9 and for grade 5s the amounts are not explicit but I would like them to know their times tables to 12x12. Like a musician learning scales, having facility with multiplication will help with many math units throughout the year. More than just memorization we are learning strategies to get at each answer. I always emphasize in class that the "x" means "groups of" such as 3x5 is 3 groups 5. Here is a good video that outlines some of these strategies. It's for grade 2 but the strategies apply nicely to grade 4 and 5: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loAfuwCh1QY For a more memorization based approach here is a helpful video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2IQB9I7zX0&t=3s Please click the Math button under "Pratiquez !" for fun card game ideas to practice multiplication. Quizzes We will be having a quiz each Thursday for the next three weeks. Ongoing Math homework will be to study for these quizzes: Thursday, Sept 29th
Homework Most of the homework for this year will be Math and English work assigned from me and the homework routine is - assigned on Fridays and due on Thursdays - or Friday if it's been a busy week. There will sometimes be unfinished classwork that will go home if it has not been completed in a reasonable amount of in class time. This work should ideally be returned in two days. Mme Gooden will sometimes assign French or Social Studies homework. This will often be in the form of a class assignment that needs to be completed because it was not completed in a reasonable amount of class time. -A friendly reminder that each student must have a water bottle (labelled and indoor/gym shoes that stay at school) -Please visit the LL blog for more info about Curriculum Night and Cross Country. Kind regards, M. Quigg
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