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Scotts Weekly Newsletter

Week in Review: April 20 - 24

Our school whole-heartedly celebrated Earth Day with an entire week of activities in each class. We are
working on a couple of different Earth Day craft activities with recycled materials supplied by Mrs.
Driscoll. One of the crafts will be the Mothers Day gift, so I have asked the kids to keep it a happy
secret.
Monday we did our part by picking up garbage down the alley behind the school and on Trail Street.
Mrs. Keiver joined us Wednesday to share the Circle of Courage. We went outside to play with the
coloured flags she uses to represent the four colours of the circle as well as blue for water. I will post
pictures to our class blog.
Also on Wednesday Mrs. DeCosse from McKim came up to speak to the grade 3 students about the
transition to McKim in the Fall.
The grade 2s planted various plant scraps in compost and we also suspended them with toothpicks in jars
of water.
Friday was our third and final recognition assembly. The kids were excellent in their Boomwhackers
performance.
This week in Math I introduced another strategy for solving double digit addition. In this method
students learn to round one number to the closest multiple of ten by borrowing that amount from the
other number. It relies on students remembering their friendly number combinations (1+9, 2+8, 3+7,
etc). I encourage them to round the number that requires the least amount of borrowing.
E.g.
23
21 + 2 + 38
=
21 + 40 = 61
+38
I am encouraging students to try all 3 methods (carry over, break it out, round to tens) so they can see
which one works best for them. We are doing A LOT of practice in class.

Upcoming Weeks: April 27 May 1

A relatively calm week
Thursday: Lockdown practice we always let students know that it is a practice only.
Friday: Going to Garden View Village at 10:15 am