Itik Itik

Grade 3s and 4s began their day learning about a new writing form - the review. Children shared what they thought a review was. They then read a review and created a checklist of what a review should contain. They understand that a review can be about different text forms such movies, websites, books, etc. They also understand that they must give their opinion of the text form without spoiling it for others.
Both grades worked on list 10 spelling words and arithmetic. They learned that they can check  their division answers by multiplying the quotient and the divisor to get back to the dividend.
We began working on the dance component of our How We Express Ourselves Unit of Inquiry. Children worked with a partner to answer the following questions:

• What different forms of dance are there?
• Why do dances exits?
• What are the messages of dances.

Partners shared their thinking with the class.

We then viewed a video clip of a Phillipine  dance called the Itik Itik. Ask your child what the form of dance the Itik Itik is, why this dance exists and what the message of the dance is.

Both grades ended the day with Math. Grade 3s practiced naming geometric figures such as trapezoids, parallelograms, rhombuses, pentagons, hexagons. They learned that a regular figure has all sides equal and all angles equal. They also learned about some the attributes of parallelograms, trapezoids, and rhombuses. Ask your child to tell you about the attributes of these figures. Grade 4s leaned that we say figures are similar if they have equal corresponding angles but their side lengths are different. The side lengths of the larger of 2 similar figures are multiples of the corresponding side lengths in the smaller figure.

Students attended gym, music and french class today.

Congratulations to Julia, Carter and Temi for earning 100 000 hose points respectively for the houses by reciting the Remember, Remember poem.

Reminders:

• Review list10 spelling words
• Arithmetic p. 67 & 68
• MMS 3 p. 58 & 59
• MMS 4 p. 46 & 47
• Multiplication memorization for the championship against Ms Chin's class on Friday
• Scholastic orders are due Friday