Day 4!

HAPPY FRIDAY!

Announcements

- Sign & Return Math tests

- Oral Competition to return to school everyday

- Re-registration packages due February 18th, 2020

- Aftercare payments due by January 15th
- Gym Monday-- Don't forget your Gym Uniform!

February Lunches

The lunch site is now open!

It will close Wednesday, January 22nd at 3:00pm sharp.

Special of the month: Chicken Stir Fry which is available every Friday. 

All payments are to be made through quickbooks by February 6th.

Music, French and Gym

Check out the blogs below to see what your child has been learning during Music, French and Gym!

French with Mme. Rawan: https://mmerawansja.blogspot.com

Music with Mrs. McMillan: www.mrsmcmillanmusic.blogspot.com

Gym with Ms. Vasconcelos: https://msvphysed.blogspot.com/ 

Oral Competition
As per the Oral Competition outline with the dates of everything, it says we will begin our written component in the graphic organizer on Monday. However, we will not be getting to this on Monday, therefore this is part of the students homework.
1. Read their story again
2. Complete the first page of their "Oral Competition Graphic Organizer" which has them identify the characters, setting and hook-- how they will grab the audiences attention.
This is due on Monday for me to review and see the progress they have made. If they think, and you as well, that they could read the story another time, please do to help enhance their understanding of the story.

Inquiry into Language
We completed our Spelling test for the first time in a while. After we finished these, students went off to complete the written component of their DRA. If they finished this before recess, they had some time to go on Razkids to read books at their reading level. When on Razkids, please ensure your child is going under the "Level Up" section to help  them complete books at their reading level. They may have noticed a change in the level they are set at on Razkids as I recently changed these due to their current DRA level.

Inquiry into Math
Our learning goals for today were to be able to tell time to the nearest minute, identify time benchmarks and distinguish the difference between a.m. & p.m. 
First we looked at the difference between a.m. and p.m. and scenarios to enhance our understanding of what hours are considered a.m. and which are p.m. They did very well with this!

We went on to looking at what the values on the clock mean. The big numbers that are on a clock signify the hours. The ticks that are between each hour represent each minute, up until 60 minutes, since there are 60 minutes in an hour. We looked at our benchmark minutes by identifying how many minutes have passed when the minute hand is at the 1, 2, 3, etc. (5 minutes, 10 minutes, 15 minutes, etc.). We concluded that the minute benchmarks skip count by 5 to make it easier when telling time.

Then we divided a clock in half to demonstrate "half past" and hour-- the minute hand will be on the 6. This means that 30 minutes have passed since the hour. We then divided it into quarters to demonstrate "quarter-past" & "quarter-to". 

- A quarter of an hour represents 15 minutes

- If the time is 15 minutes after the hour, we say it is "quarter after ____"

ex. 8:15 can be read as "quarter after 8"

- If the time is 15 minutes to the hour, we say it is "quarter to ____" 

ex. 6:45 can be read as "quarter to 7"

Note: for "quarter to" scenarios, it's important to remembers that the hour in the time will be the digit that comes before the number mentioned in the word phrase.

ex. If it says "quarter to 10", the actual time is 9:45, NOT 10:45

We did some examples together, students completed a worksheet with a few questions, then we took it up to see if they understand the difference between quarter-to, quarter-after and half-past.

Once we finished taking these up, we looked at how we can tell time to the nearest hour. We concluded that the minute hand moves much faster than the hour hand. We looked at the placement of the hour hand depending on how many minutes have passed, along with how this can help us identify the hour we are on.

- If it is on the hour, the hour hand is pointing at one of the hour values on the clock and the minute hand is on the 12.

- If it is half-past and hour, such as 4:30, the hour hand is pointing in between the hour that it is and the next hour (example between the 4 and the 5). The minute hand will be on the 6.

- If it is close to the next hour (8:57), the hour hand would be very very close to the 9, but since the 8th hour is almost done (since 57 minutes have passed) we know that it is almost the next hour, which would be 9, therefore our hour must be 8. Students need to be extra cautious when completing questions like this.

Lastly, we reviewed how to convert units of time such as hours to minutes and days to hours. We did a couple examples together to demonstrate how to solve these, especially for situations where they had to multiply a two-digit number by a two-digit number. Since they haven't learned this yet, they learn it next year, we reviewed how we could use the distributive property to solve these questions!

📘We had Library and French today!📗

Agenda
- Read for 25 minutes
- Math: 4 worksheets
- Oral Competition: read the book you selected & complete first page of "Oral Competition Graphic Organizer"
- Act of Kindess
- Sign & Return Math test