Dear students and parents, (please read this with your child, thanks!)

We welcomed back some students on Tuesday. It was so nice to spend the day with you! I also got to see others who came after school to pick up belongings. It was so nice to see you too! If you have not picked up your belongings yet, I will be in the Portable on Monday, June 8 after 3:15pm. Please let me know if you plan to come by. Thank you!

We had our last Book Club meeting last week. I asked the students if they would like to continue and an overwhelming majority did not but this does not mean they stop reading. They should still continue to read 20-30 minutes daily. Just like they should be getting some form of physical activity daily too. Thank you for your support with this!

We had our first Passion Project presentations last week on Wednesday. I was so impressed with the PowerPoint presentations and how you presented your projects. I can’t wait to see more! We will continue on Monday and Tuesday, June 8 & 9 at 1:30pm on Zoom. Please sign up on Grid Method Division 9 to choose your day. For the single point rubric (criteria), please click here. It can also be found in OneNote > Content Library > Passion Project. If they are finished their Passion Project, they can begin a new one!

For Math last week, we focused on just the division facts. The goal of this week will be to understand concepts of division (e.g., sharing, grouping, repeated subtraction) while continuing to improve in our fluency in facts.

Exciting news! Rushil just published his first e-book on Amazon! If you would like to purchase a free copy, click here (limited time offer). We have some other exciting news to share about another published author in our class but we will wait until after she presents her Passion Project before we share with parents.

Report cards are due in the office on June 10. I only have a handful of pictures submitted so far. Please send me a photo of your child holding on to something they are proud of so I can include it on their report card. If it’s their Passion Project PowerPoint and I have access to it on OneDrive, then just let me know and I’ll copy the title slide and insert that. I will also need one sentence that goes with the picture about what they are proud of too, please. Thank you so much for your support with this! Note: It is best if you can send me the picture as an attachment. Thank you.

I have always appreciated your support at home and continue to feel so grateful for you. Thank you for your help, parents and thank you to all my students who have continued to work so hard at home!

Sincerely, Ms. Chan

Dear students and parents, (please review with your child)

Tuesday marks the first day that some students will return to school on Mondays and Tuesdays until the end of June (except June 1). It will be full days. Please review the checklist sent to you via email about what to bring to school. Students at home and school will have a similar list of tasks for the week.

Last week, we worked on writing self-reflections on our learning and the year. If your child has not completed these reflections yet, please encourage them to hop into OneNote > Hand in to complete. Thank you for your continued support!

For Math, we continued with multiplication. Grade 3’s were to finish up previous levels. Grade 4’s, we learned how to multiply 2-digit x 1-digit numbers up to 3-digit x 1-digit numbers. It was self-paced last week. If you need me to have a special lesson, please indicate it on our Grid Method Div 9 document or email. If I see there are a few students who can take advantage of a special Zoom class, then I will schedule it. I have only had a handful of students ask for the final assessment for multiplying 3-digit x 1-digit so far. When your child is ready, please email and I will upload a copy of the assessment into OneDrive. Thank you! As always, any questions, please ask. This week, we will begin Division – just learning the facts so if you know your multiplication facts, this will be easier. If you don’t know your multiplication facts yet, then spend more time practicing those this week.

For Literacy, we will be working on a short story this week inspired by the Mystery Doug video we will be watching on Tuesday.

Looking forward – 3 Zoom meetings this week, all at 1:30 pm:

• Passion Projects Presentation Day 1 on Wednesday, June 3 at 1:30 pm: If you are ready to present, please sign up to present on our Grid Method Div 9 document in OneDrive. Thank you! Day 2 will be on Monday, June 8 at 1:30pm. After students present on Wednesday, they will be asked to do a self-reflection.
• All Book Club meetings will be on Thursday, June 4 at 1:30 pm: We will start off together and then I will create breakout rooms where students can meet to discuss the book. Please update the Grid Method Div 9 document with the book you are reading this week and prepare a reading response so you have something to share. Remember “say something” strategy. Look for Zoom invite in your Outlook mail!
• Whole class meeting on Zoom will be on Friday, June 5 at 1:30 pm: Mark your calendars! This week’s theme: Picnic with stuffed animal friends! Bring your favourite stuffies and a snack to “share” (not share, haha). Meet Bubba! I’ve had him for 25 years! He will be joining us!

TO DO: Please submit your friend requests for next year. Which friends would you love to have in your class next year? Think about people currently in other classes too. Click here to fill out online form.

Some school news:

• Check out the Virtual Celebration of Learning – featuring our new math teachers Zia, Liliana, and Lucas L!
• Join the Virtual Jump Rope for Heart on June 19!

Thank you for your continued support at home! Soooo very excited to see some of you on Tuesday!!

Warmly, Ms. Chan

Dear students and parents,

Thank you for continuing to work hard and for your continued support at home, parents. As you know, we will be reopening schools on June 1st. Group 1 students will attend on Monday and Tuesday full days and Group 2 students will attend on Thursday and Friday full days. We will need to take a look at the number of students who wish to return before dividing into groups. Rest assured, I will try to put your child in with their friends if possible. If you have not filled out the online form to indicate your return or no return to school, please look for an email sent out last Thursday around 3pm. If you did not receive one in your Inbox, please check your junk mail. Sorry, I do not have the link to share it with you but if you need help, please email me and I will ask the office for the link.

This coming week, you would have received a plan for the week by email. OneNote will be prepared each day in this way:

• There will be a new page created each day in our Collaboration Space. Continue to check the previous day’s contributions before you add to the current day. The questions will be available in the weekly plan so you can think ahead.
• There will be two pages prepared for the Hand in section: Literacy and Math. Here you will record your learning for the week. Enjoy the flexibility but feel free to follow the daily plan as laid out.

Last Wednesday, we learned how to use PowerPoint on Zoom. The link was sent to your Outlook Mail.

Since we moved to remote learning, students have been working hard to learn addition and subtraction with regrouping. Last week, tasks centered around understanding what multiplication is. This week, we will continue with multiplication. Brentwood Park began sharing our Celebration of Learning virtually. Keep your eye out for Division 9’s contribution at the next COLA! Thank you to Zia, Liliana, and Lucas L. for your permission to showcase your work!

Here’s a sneak peek if you can’t wait – enjoy!

• Zia teaches addition with regrouping
• Liliana teaches subtraction with regrouping
• Lucas L. teaches us about multiplication

As always, if you have any questions, please ask. Enjoy your week! Still missing you! Looking forward to seeing some of you in about a week!

Sincerely, Ms. Chan

Dear students and parents,

Students, thank you for your continued work in OneNote. I love checking and reading your work each night because although you are probably asleep at the time that I am typing my feedback and writing messages to you, I feel like it is my special time with you, if that makes any sense. I hope you have enjoyed the new Daily Challenges I added last week!

Parents, I really appreciate you for joining me in our meeting on Zoom last Friday night. To see so many of you there touched my heart! My main goal was to provide us with an opportunity to connect face to face albeit behind a screen. Here are some of the main points:

• Thank you for your continued support at home!!! I hope you can feel in your heart and mind my deepest gratitude.
• Schools will re-open on June 1st. We will be receiving more information from the District about health and safety protocols. Returning to school is a family decision. I am here to support your family regardless of your decision. To learn more, visit BC’s Ministry of Education’s website.
• Tips on OneNote: Use the new checkboxes to indicate completed work. Use the Highlighter to mark important information like instructions. If you haven’t noticed, what you see on the Content Library is exactly the same as your Hand in page for the day so now you only need to go to the Content Library when you login.
• We shared some ideas on how we can celebrate the end of the school year “together”. If you have any other ideas, please let me know!

Last week, we started our new unit on multiplication. Please go to We are Mathematicians to see what is in our grade 3/4 curriculum for learning standards. The gist of it is that students will become more fluent recalling multiplication facts but for grade 3’s, this is not intended so the focus is on understanding the concept of multiplication (repeated addition, skip counting, arrays, groups of) which will be the focus this week. Having said that, learning math facts this year while there is some extra time at home will prepare them for next year. For grade 4’s, they will need to multiply up to 3-digit numbers by 1-digit numbers (example: 826 x 3 = 2,478).

I hope the Passion Projects are coming along. They all had a chance to provide us with an update during our Book Club meeting last week so it sounds like it’s going well! This part of remote learning is probably one of the most important opportunities for your child to take. If they found the right passion project for themselves, then they will be self-motivated to learn. To me, this is one of the ultimate goals of education: to learn how to learn and think for themselves, to be curious and develop a passion for learning, to foster perseverance with a positive attitude as we go through the learning process (it is a process!), and to communicate or share what was learned with others. Please email me if you need any support. Our presentations will be on May 25, 27, and 29th on Zoom. During our Friday Zoom meeting, we will be co-constructing some criteria with students for the presentations.

Upcoming Week Schedule: Check Outlook Mail for invitations!

• Tuesday, May 19: Book Club meetings on Zoom – Check schedule on OneNote
• Wednesday, May 20 at 1:00 pm: PowerPoint lesson on Zoom – All welcome!
• Friday, May 22 at 10:30 am: Whole Class Meeting on Zoom – THEME: Wear a hat or crazy hair!

Please send me an email to let me know your thoughts around your child returning to school in June. I understand that you may not have made a decision just yet. I would just love to hear your current thoughts knowing they may change. Thank you! Email: Livia.Chan@burnabyschools.ca

I hope you enjoyed your long weekend! I have a favour to ask: Please give your child a big hug for me. Thank you! I would love it so much if you upload a picture of you hugging your child “from me” in the email you are sending to let me know your intentions about returning. That would absolutely make my day! 🙂 Thank you so much!

Sincerely, Ms. Chan