2018 is turning into the year of weddings in my family. In early March I attended my brother's wedding in Regina, the following week my brother-in-law's wedding in Mexico, and in June my eldest is getting married as is my husband's youngest cousin. In March I was lucky to experience a "real" Canadian winter in Regina (for a few days), then catch some rays the following week in Mexico. I love the snow so both climates were good fuel to tackle more rain.
This Friday the 13th marks Mlle Nessim's last week in our class. She has been teaching with us since January and the students and I have benefited from her creative ideas and perspectives. Next week she plans on returning to Abbotsford to start her teaching career closer to her family. We wish her the best. She will be missed!
Classroom calendar - or click on the link at the right
Curriculum update:
Math: This past week we started to work with multiplication. Our goals this year will be to understand multiplication concepts such as arrays, skip counting, and repeated addition, as well as using multiplication to solve word problems. Students will show their knowledge by using equations, drawings, number lines, ...
According to the new BC Curriculum, "memorization of facts is not intended for this level". Despite this, many students are already familiar with multiplication facts to 5s, and some even know them to 9s and beyond! The best way to learn facts of any kind is by playing games.
Many of you dice games in our student-led conferences back in March. Here's a dice game to practice multiplication and arrays. We tried it out in class this past week:
For more traditional "facts" games, here are some online games: Multiplication facts games . But beware, they look fun but they don't develop brain skills as much as the array game above.
This week's audio dictée:
