Multiplication

This week started our unit on multiplication. This is new concept for grade 3 students and a great opportunity for review for grade 4 students.

Grade 3 students will:

Demonstrate an understanding of multiplication to 5 × 5 by:
• representing and explaining multiplication using equal grouping and arrays
• creating and solving problems in context that involve multiplication
• modelling multiplication using concrete and visual representations, and recording the process symbolically
• relating multiplication to repeated addition
• relating multiplication to division
• Understand and recall multiplication facts to 5 × 5

Grade 4 students will:

Describe and apply mental mathematics strategies to determine basic multiplication facts to 9 × 9 and related division facts.
• Recall facts to 7 × 7

Demonstrate an understanding of multiplication (2- or 3-digit by 1-digit) to solve problems by:
• using personal strategies for multiplication with and without concrete materials
• using arrays to represent multiplication
• connecting concrete representations to symbolic representations
• estimating products
• applying the distributive property

Happy New Year

We started off the day by thinking of a "word goal" that we will work on for the next few months. This is a word that will help us to focus on an area, in which we want to improve and grow.

Belonging Day and Winter Celebration News

Tomorrow is Belonging Day at Ramsay School! Please be sure to wear your Ramsay t-shirt. Thanks for our Gr. 3/4 Student Council for organizing this day.

We also look forward to seeing you for our Winter Celebration at 6:00 p.m. Parents, THANK YOU for your generosity around providing all of the personal hygiene items & gift cards for the Clients of the Drop-In Center. Enjoy stuffing the “Kindness Envelopes” inside your child’s classroom. Also, enjoy the amazing “collective artwork” created by our students for the Silent Art Auction. All proceeds generated will go to the DI! Please bring cash with you, if you would like to bid on any artwork for the Silent Auction.

Story Workshop

It's been a while since we worked on "Story Workshop, " so today we built a story with a friend and started a plan.

Winter Celebration Information

Here is the schedule for the Winter Celebration next week. We look forward to seeing everyone!

There are three portions to the evening celebration:

• Student performances in the Gym                                           (See schedule below)
• Art Auction in the Learning Commons                                     (Between 6:00 – 7:45)
• Stuffing Kindness Envelopes inside your child’s classroom     (Between 6:00 – 7:45)

Schedule for the evening performances:

6:00 p.m.              Grades 1-3 Choir sings inside the Gym    (Choir parents invited to the gym)

6:15 p.m.              Ms. Paradis’ Class performs                     (Room 5 parents invited to the gym)

6:30 p.m.              Ms. Harris’ Class performs                        (Room 8 parents invited to the gym)

6:45 p.m.              Kindergarten a.m. Class performs             (Kindergarten parents invited to the gym)

                             Kindergarten p.m. Class performs

7:00 p.m.              Mr. Jackson’s Class performs                  (Room 7 parents invited to the gym)

7:15 p.m.              Ms. MacLeod’s Class performs                (Room 6 parents invited to the gym)

7:30 p.m.              Ms. Elder’s Class performs                       (Room 12 parents invited to the gym)

7:45 p.m.              Ms. McGrath’s Class performs                   (Room 9 parents invited to the gym)

We look forward to seeing you then!

Symmetry through Art

West African Dance Residency

Today we started our West African Dance Residency, where we began our learning of dance and music from the country of Guinea. We started with a warm-up activity to get us moving and then played the "Break Game,"  which required students to listen to the rhythm of the music and stop and start during specific parts of the song. Being able to hear these changes in the music will be very important as we learn the dance we will be performing at our Winter Celebration next week.