We are grateful for your time to listen attentively to your child show you their learning across the curriculum. Thank you for being active participants and big supporters of their learning all year! We hope you enjoyed celebrating their successes. They worked so hard to prepare for these conferences and have continued to work hard since September. We are so proud of them and their perseverance!<\/p>\n
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We are mathematicians.<\/strong><\/p>\n Over the weekend, students were encouraged to teach you about division as we enjoyed our first lesson on Friday. If they haven’t yet, ask them to share what they learned. Pull out some candy, chocolates, or cookies with plates for each person in your family. Ask them to divide by sharing to practice what they learned. Reinforcing new concepts helps to solidify learning and builds a strong initial foundation for learning division.<\/p>\n Here’s what we learned so you can support at home:<\/em><\/p>\n Each lesson, it is important for us to post our learning intention so it is clear what they are to learn by the end of the lesson.<\/p>\n Two of the big curricular competencies for math is to communicate mathematical thinking in many ways and to represent ideas in concrete, pictorial, and symbolic forms.<\/p>\n We had plates with our fake gummy bears and went, “one for you, one for you, and one for you” until they were all passed out equally among everyone holding a plate. They enjoyed the real life examples to experience the why and how of division. Then students were given questions to try with partners.<\/p>\n This learning through “play” is one of the most impactful ways for children to learn through discovery. It is one of our favourite types of hands-on and engaging learning where students learn together and practice communicating mathematical thinking with each other. Opportunities like these also help them develop their core competencies of communication, collaboration, critical thinking, and social awareness and responsibility. This also aligns with Indigenous ways of learning by de-centering the room with less teacher time talking and more student time exploring the new concepts.<\/p>\n Passion Projects<\/strong><\/p>\n On Friday, we started talking about Passion Projects. We watched this video<\/a> by John Spencer that introduced them to what it is although he calls it Genius Hour.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/sd41blogs.ca\/chanl\/files\/2025\/05\/division-learning-intention.jpg\")
<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/a>The learning intention for our first lesson in division: I can understand equal groups in division. This concept involved the idea of sharing.<\/p>\n