It was nice to have the opportunity to meet many of you at the Meet and Greet BBQ on Wednesday. The children were very happy to show their classroom to you and it was nice for you to get a glimpse of where they spend their day!
Picture Day
Tuesday, September 27th
NumberTalks
This year in math we will be focusing on NumberTalks: a short daily math practise to develop computational fluency; to develop number sense and to develop clarity in thinking and communication. Number talks provides opportunities for students to exercise mental math strategies and to deepen their understanding through communication. Individually or in groups, students share and defend their ideas and consider and question or expand on the reasoning of others.
As well, each Monday we will look at a new picture, or question, or problem and talk about all of the math in it which may contain math across various strands! What kind of math do you see as you are out and about with your child? When you are with your child, help him/her to build their math vocabulary and recognize that math is everywhere in the real world by pointing out the following: patterns; shapes 2-D (circle, triangle, hexagon, square, oval etc.) and 3-D (sphere, cone, cylinder, cube); how things are sorted; measurement terms (long/short/tall/wide/ thin/thick/big/small, etc); quantity terms: more/less, most/least, equal; counting everything and anything, count by ones, twos, five and tens
Math is literally everywhere. The more your child is engaged in conversations about math in the real world, he stronger foundation your child will have for building more complex math skills on as they grow up.
