Dear Division 6 families,

I always feel sad when we have a holiday or Pro-D day that lands on a Monday or Friday because those are the days that I am in the class all day so it’s a lot of time missed with them. Regardless of having a shorter week, we’ve had a great one!

Math

On Tuesday, we reviewed the Math quiz on division in detail discussing common errors. Thank you for reviewing and signing it! As you saw, each child had an encouraging note written on their page with some extra notes specific to the sections that they found challenging. Any student who would like to be retested to demonstrate their understanding is welcome to rewrite.

We continued to dive deeper into the relationship between perimeter and area. We learned that we can have the same perimeter with different areas AND the same area with different perimeter. Last week, they were given a quiz to show what they know and it was great to see how many understood it! The only thing many were forgetting was to include the unit of measure, even though this was emphasized as an important part each time.

We started our review of patterns and are using Book Creator to create our own digital book to demonstrate our understanding of increasing/decreasing patterns using words, numbers, and symbols. They also need to be able to describe the pattern. I’m loving the creativity I’m seeing so far!

Speeches

On Tuesday, students started writing their speeches on what lesson they learned since the pandemic in Word. Here are some of the central themes: gratefulness and having taken things for granted, flexibility, I am braver than I think, to never give up, I can work hard, I can do anything I put my mind to, loyalty, and if I work hard, I can find success.

Kindness Projects

Groups are continuing to work on their kindness projects. They all did a self-assessment on how well they took turns, worked collaboratively, how focussed and how hard they worked.

To the left is a sneak peek into one of the Kindness projects (Ethan, Quinson, Miles, and Brodie). Since I took this image, they have added bees and a bird and nest. It was so exciting for them this week when they saw that some people had written kind words on some of their leaves!!

We have another group that has written over a hundred messages of kindness on sticky notes and put them all over the school! This past week, their group (Gabriella, Shayla, Hailey, and Vienna) went on the PA system to explain to the rest of the school what to do with them. They also created a fun video about kindness that was shared with the class. Loved their creativity and bravery!

We’re looking forward to spending a full week with the kids!

Thank you for your continued support at home,

Ms. Chan and Mrs. Paulich