Mairi Anderson's classroom website
Hello everyone! Please see the weekly update from the hardworking students of Division 9! We were writing up a storm these past weeks to complete our culture flipbooks, and were able to assemble them all today! Students have written about what aspects of culture are shared or different from one another, and what makes their […]
Hello families! Before our weekly review, please see the following notes: Recipes: Thank you for sharing your family recipes for our class cookbook! It has been so lovely to see what makes these recipes important to each of you. I am looking forward to putting together our cookbook with students’ writing and artwork over the […]
Bonjour! Firstly, please see below for important upcoming dates: Entrepreneur Fair: Next Friday, December 3rd, our class will visit the Entrepreneur Fair hosted by Divisions 2 and 3. The Grade 6/7 students have created businesses and will be selling their homemade items for $1-$5. Cash will not be accepted, only pre-purchased tickets. Tickets are available […]
Bonjour les familles! In Math this week, students practiced addition strategies. We worked on “La magie de 9”, or regrouping when adding with 9. We played a game called “Bouge” where players can bump their opponents off the board by adding the totals correctly. We practiced addition facts to 20 with a math-themed book called […]
Bonjour les familles, In Math this week, we played with addition and subtraction puzzles and created our own. We practiced doubles and doubles-plus-one addition facts and tested our memories with a speed round of doubles addition. We listened and learned in the Remembrance Day assembly on Wednesday, and heard from Ken Rosadiuk, Senior Instructor of […]
Bonjour! I apologize for the late post this week. Here is an update of what Division 9 was busy with November 1-5th. Division 9 students worked very hard this week! They were helpful with class jobs, determined and focused writers, and enthusiastic for math games! In Math, we practiced addition facts with an adaptation of […]
Hello everyone! This week was full of activities! Today was especially energetic, with a witch, three superheroes, warriors, an astronaut, a zombie, an avocado, several adorable animals, a princess, a police officer, Beetlejuice, the Grim Reaper and a skeleton, and many more fascinating creatures spotted in the hallways of Brantford! We visited the haunted house […]
Salut! Tomorrow is a provincial Professional Development Day for staff. There will be no school for students. In Math this week we worked on representing numbers in expanded form and with Base 10 blocks. We rolled dice to pick four digit numbers and then used folded paper to stretch out the numbers into their expanded […]
Bonjour! Happy rainy Friday. This week in Math we continued work on understanding place value. We practiced using Base 10 blocks and with questions from the Grade 3 Chenelière textbook. We wrote reflections of gratitude in our journals, read together and read on our own, and played games to practice words with the sound “ch”. […]
Bonjour les familles de la Division 9! What a full week! In Math, we were busy at work wrapping up our study of patterns, and are starting up our unit on place value. We had a quiz on patterns on Tuesday. On Wednesday, students were challenged to imagine “ant castles” using Base 10 blocks. Afterwards, […]