Good Friends, Strong Friendships!

Our gr.4 class had an excellent discussion about friendship. Take a look below. We all agreed that friendships are not exclusive to two people. We need many friends and need to include others in our games! Having one 'best' friend is great but having 'best' friends is better! Take a look at the initials next to each statement and you'll know who contributed each comment. Well done students!

New Math Homework: Fri. Feb.23rd to Friday, March 2nd

Good afternoon! We are back on track with our weekly Math homework. My expectation is for students to do Math homework on 3 separate evenings for about 20 minutes. If you do more, great! Parents: if you sit with your child and work with them, it will help them tremendously! One of our parents requested hard copies so I will do that for this week. Perhaps I will try and send them weekly. Hard copies are due on Friday. I will take it up again with them at that time.

Tasks to do:
1. Parents, would you mind reviewing/discussing the strategies used in class with your child. See photo below.

2.Complete the 2 sheets (4 pages) of Math homework sent Monday.

3. Students work on Mathletics. Use the following link for your child to access this FREE and EXCELLENT Math resource (student must be signed in with their firstname.lastname@ocsbstudent.ca account):  Mathletics LINK CLICK HERE

Math Home Practice: Jan.29th to Feb.2nd

Please do 20 minutes of Math homework 2 or 3 evenings this week.

Review with Mom or Dad this problem we worked on in class today:

Let's pretend our field trip is in 3 days. Approximately how many hours away might it be? Explain your answer.
Here is a LEVEL 4 answer found in class today.

We discussed as well in class how if we figured out 3 days and we're currently lunch time, we might want to subtract 2 or 3 hours which would bring our total closer to 68 or 69 hours.

Other problem to try by yourself first and then with a parent at home:
The summer holiday starts in about 23 weeks. Describe how far away that is using a different unit (like months, hours). Challenge: Show your work using years (you'll need to use a fraction).

Finally, if you have time, keep learning about Math on the posters below, created by students of our classroom.

What Students Have Learned in Math So Far, What next?

Here's what we've worked on every day since September in Math:
(for better viewing, please click here)

Excellent Resources for Parents Helping their Child do Math at Home

Many Great Math Resources and Links: Click Here

Parents: here is a helpful video to help your child succeed: click here

Math Homework: Jan.22nd to 25th

Hi! Considering there is a PD day for students this Friday, if you could do 20 minutes of Math with your child on two separate nights this week, that would be great!

This week's homework:

Students have worked hard at creating excellent posters on topics/concepts/vocabulary we are learning about this year. I started with 7 Math Posters and will post more in the coming weeks. If your child understands a concept very well, move on to the next. Place Value is a good place to start if he/she struggles with that... and especially considering that in gr.4, decimals up to hundredths are learned.

Here is the link: Math Posters by Students Click Here

What else is new? In order to help meet our goals of improving student's Math skills, in junior grades we are doing Math Talks. Here is one of the books we are using to meet our goals. If you wish to borrow it, I can send lend you my copy for one evening. Good luck!

Double 36

Way to go Sophia, Maddie and Kayleigh! Here's how they used manipulatives to show double 36... in two different ways! Can you figure out how they did it? The image should be rotated a quarter turn clockwise. Oh, and there is a little mistake, can you see what it is?