February 23

Welcome back Mr. S.  We are so happy you are back and looking forward to our time together until April 22 when you will be fully qualified teacher.  

Just a reminder that tomorrow is Anti-bullying day.  Please wear pink if possible.

Thursday is our Tanga Art sale from 6-7:30.   Our projects will be displayed in the Link hallway right outside of our classroom door.

Grade 2's are working on double digit addition.  Here is the process we are following.

53+21
53 + 20 = 73
73 +1 = 74
or 
50 + 20 = 70
3+1 = 4
70+4 = 74

These are only 2 suggestions.  If your child creates a strategy that works for them and they are able to get the right answer ...... that is great!  All I ask is that they are able to represent their thinking.  

Grade 1's have been working on domino addition.

Today we started working on writing a "discussion text".  Our topic of discussion was "Children should not do homework".  This was the title of our discussion.  We then came up with arguments for and against this.  We started talking about our opinion and how it is also important to see things from another person's "point of view".  

At the end of the day we had Roots of Empathy.  We talked about being sad and what things make us feel better.

Have a wonderful evening.