Limestone Test

We began today by working on report writing. Students used the web organizer from yesterday and came up with 3 examples that would explain the idea that each of their 3 or 4 paragraphs will focus on. The children enjoyed 20 minutes of independent reading time with a book of their choice. They worked on their spelling words and learned how to multiply when 3 is a factor in arithmetic. Students are asked to practice counting in 3s till 36 to help them with multiplication.
Ms Henein says the children have been been very creative in drama where they have been writing plays. She says she is looking forward to seeing them perform their plays.
In math, grade 4s learned how to round to the nearest thousand, hundred or ten using a number line. They also learned how to round using a trick that I showed them. Grade 3s worked on understanding how big or small 1000 is. Ask your child to tell you when 1000 is a big number, and when it is a small number. Also, ask them how many ones, tens and hundreds there are in 1000.
We learned about the limestone and magnetism tests in science today. Ask your child to describe these tests to you. Geologists use these tests to discover more about rocks and minerals. We had fun conducting the hardness test on 3 samples today. We used our fingernail, a penny, an iron nail and glass to scratch each of our samples. Students used a chart to record their findings. Look in your child's agenda for a letter about our class trip to Milton Quarry. This trip will help answer all our inquiry questions for this unit.
The children also attended gym and french class today.

Homework:

• Review list 3 for tomorrow's spelling test
• Arithmetic p. 23 & 24
• MMS 3 p. 24 & 25
• MMS 4 p. 14 & 15
• Practice counting by 3s till 36
• Milton Quarry trip letter