Monday February 12th

Highlights:
We started our morning with math. Today's lesson focused on estimating differences. When you estimate a difference, you predict a number that is close to the exact number you would get by subtracting. Example: 52-38=? Round both numbers to the closest 10 and subtract. 50-40=10. The answer is about 10. After math we had music and an indoor recess. After snack we went to the gym for our Jump Rope for Heart assembly. A package of information went home today. Attached to the package is a pledge form/envelope. There are two ways to collect pledges. Student's can collect cash/cheques or collect donations online. Please follow the instruction in the package to collect donations online. After our assembly, student's had free writing time.

After lunch we had computers. The bulletin board outside of our classroom has been turned into an Olympic medal count chart. Student's are working with a partner to track medals won by a specific country. The student's used the computers to locate the country their responsible for on a map as well as track the amount of medals won by that county so far. See the picture below.

After Computers, Avizheh shared her Science in a Box. She taught us about how volcano's form and work. We also began a quick draw in our visual journals. We're drawing Soohorang. He is a white tiger and one of the mascots of the 2018 winter Olympics.

***Tomorrow the class will be going on a community walk to CNG to work with their grade 7 buddies***

Reminders:

Valentines Day - February 14th. A class list will be going home with all the students names. If you would like to pass out valentines please bring one for all the students in the class. 

No School - February 15th and 16th (Teachers Convention) and February 19th (Family Day)

February 12th - Wear RED! 
February 23rd - Spirt day athletic wear – Wear a team jersey or other appropriate clothing from a sport that you play.

Pink Shirt Day

On February 28^th PHS will be participating in Pink Shirt day to help raise awareness about bullying and to raise funds for anti-bullying programs. This year our Grade 4 students have been hard at work organizing this event! Students will be selling handmade friendship bracelets to help support the cause #PinkItForward. Bracelets will be on sale for all students and staff members to purchase beginning Monday February 26^th – 28^th. Bracelets will cost $2.00 and all the money raised will be donated to Kids Help Phone. We encourage everyone to practice kindness and wear pink on February 28th to symbolize that you do not tolerate bullying.

For more information on this year’s Pink Shirt Day visit

https://www.pinkshirtday.ca/?utm_source=Patio&utm_medium=SEM&utm_term=pinkshirtday&gclid=EAIaIQobChMItY6b35Wh2QIViABpCh0oYAKEEAAYASAAEgLPzPD_BwE

March 22nd - Jump Rope for Heart pledge forms and donations due.

Homework:

~ Reading: Read daily for 15-20 minutes. 

~ Science-in-a-Box: Click here for more information regarding Science-in-a-Box and the schedule! 

~ Math: 

Unit: Addition and Subtraction; Learning Goals

• use strategies to recall basic addition and subtraction facts
• solve addition and subtraction equations
• estimate sums and differences for 2-digit numbers 
• add and subtract 2-digit numbers mentally
• use personal strategies to add and subtract numbers with up to 3 digits
• write and solve addition  and subtraction problems 

Lesson 1: Use strategies and properties for basic addition facts. 

Lesson 2: Use related addition and subtraction facts to answer equations. 
Lesson 3: Find the missing number in an equation. 

Lesson 4: Estimating sums

Lesson 5: Adding 2-digit numbers
Lesson 6: Use mental math strategies to solve 2-digit numbers. 
Lesson 7: Use personal strategies to add 3-digit numbers.

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