Thursday!

Hello everyone!
We had a great morning of learning today!

In Math, we continue to work with new mental math strategies as well as applying multiple strategies to solve one equation. How many different ways can you solve a question such as 48 + 37  or  118 + 62? We are also continuing our work with coordinates and will soon see the transfer of these skills into Science.

Speaking of Science, we are keeping up with our daily tomato observations and have seen a quite a few new seeds germinate this week. G continues to have a higher number of germinated seeds compared to H, with today's tallies being 18 vs 13. We have 10 more days left in our observation period before we can submit our results to Tomatosphere to find out which group is which.

In Français, our daily 10 minutes of reading this week has us diving into our classroom library to see what titles are peeking our interest. "Garfield" and "Mission:Adoption" are quite popular, along with "Journal Minecraft" and
"100 faits épeurants..."
We have also made great progress with our "La paix" poems and took time in class today to celebrate the wonderful writing that we are producing. We are pushing ourselves to write detailed texts using a rich and varied vocabulary and the results are incredible! Our next steps after we are finished with our rough copies will be to conference with 2 different classmates before beginning our good copies. Mme has asked us to pay special attention to correctly conjugating the verbs linking to each of the 5 senses (we can refer to our verb anchor chart to help us) and ensuring our féminin/masculin articles are correct (la paix (not le paix); mon papa (not ma papa) etc.)
Writing it French is NOT easy, but we are increasing our writing stamina and working towards excellence each time we pick up our pen and start writing! Bravo! :)

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Agenda items:
1. December Scholastic orders - due tomorrow (Friday)
2. Please email confirmation of receiving the Term 1 report card (and send back the envelope to school) ASAP!
3. Mental Math assessment "Arrondis and Ajuste" - Monday, Dec 11.