Grade 4 Wilks

December 2019 Newsletter

Dear Parents, Today, we had Gym with Ms. Dittrich’s class and we played line tag and King’s court dodgeball. Then, the students worked on pages 116-117 #1-15 in preparation for their test on Tuesday. We took another turn for our Biome Catan game and started working on our reflections for…

Dear Parents, Today, we worked on word problems in Math e.g. If Barbara has 16 oranges and wants to give them equally to her 4 friends, how many does each one get? We are also practicing creating word problems and differentiating between whether multiplication and division should be used to…

Dear Parents, We had a wonderful day today of learning! However, there was an incident at lunch recess that was quite serious. There were students involved in a “war game” throwing pinecones, ice, rocks, and other objects at each other. We had a class meeting about empathy and putting ourselves…

Dear Parents, This morning, we explored some more multiplication Math games to help with automaticity on the projector: https://mathsframe.co.uk/en/resources/resource/504/Super-Maths-Bowling-Multiplication and https://www.arcademics.com/games/meteor I would suggest that students practice these as a fun way to work on their multiplication facts and automaticity. Then, we went to Young People’s Concert. I was disappointed by many…

Dear Parents, Today, the students had Music in the morning. After music, we went outiside for DPA and had snack. In Math, we continued our work with arrays. I had the students fill out a Fact Families sheet demonstrating the relationship between division and multiplication. I had them roll dice…

Dear Parents, Today, we worked on arrays in Math class. I did a whole class lesson on the board where I used counters to make arrays e.g. (pretend the O’s are counters) OOOO OOOO would represent 4 x 2 = 8 Each array (sequence of counters in straight rows and…

Dear Parents, Today, we continued our “Castle in the Attic” read-aloud in the morning. Then, we did an introduction to basic single-digit multiplication. If students needed more clarification on this topic, they were asked to come to the board to work with me in a small group or one-on-one so…

Dear Parents, Today, we took another turn in our Catan biome game. Some groups started to build bridges and two groups are challenging each other for a village spot! Then, we explored patterns on the interactive multiplication chart: https://www.mathplayground.com/interactive_multiplication_chart.html – we coloured in many different patterns and the kids were able…