We begin swimming lessons tomorrow afternoon. We reviewed the necessary items, and some not necessary items at our morning meeting today. It would be a good idea for the girls to tie back their long hair and toques come to the pool to cover wet hair.
Also note that Thursday we have our first cross country ski lesson as noted on the February calendar and written about in the February newsletter found on our website. Dressing for the weather will be super important on Thursday - in layers would be best. Warm socks (not nylons) with snow pants, toque and mitts. I think this will be great fun for good Canadian children!!
I introduced a game of Circles and Stars today that gives students a visual representation that multiplication is repeated addition! We began by rolling a die and drawing that many circles on our paper. We rolled the die again and drew in that number of stars in each circle. We then figured out how many stars we had drawn all together. Some of us were able to write the repeated addition sentence to match. For example 5 circles with 2 stars in each would have the number 10 written with it and then the sentence 2+2+2+2+2=10 We will continue with this tomorrow.
We discovered today that we can all visualize in our heads and that everyone will have a different picture because we all have different experiences. Some of us see things in color, while others see them in black and white but we should all be using smell, taste, feel and sound along with our picture. Ask your child about their lollipop.
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