Today I am sending home a set of addition facts and a set of subtraction facts with each student. Please do not write on these sheets. They are to be used multiple times so your child can practice his/her math facts at home. You may practice orally or you can get an plastic cover to place on top if you wish for your child to write the answers down. A good place to start is with adding with 0, then adding with 1, etc. all the way to adding with 9. Once your child feels confident with adding, you can move onto the subtraction pages in the same manner. These are not meant for your child to spend a lot of time on. Maybe 2-5 minutes per evening can be spent on basic math facts. The goal is for students to know their facts so they are not using their fingers or counters for basic facts. If you have any questions about this please do not hesitate to contact me.
I sent a notice home today that indicate that I have booked a couple field trips in which we require some parent drivers. I indicated that our first field trip will be to the Big Little Science Centre on Thursday December 8th, but unfortunately that conflicts with the Christmas concert which is on that day as well. I have moved the date we goto the Science Centre to Wednesday, December 14. We must be there at 9:00 am so we would have to leave the school at about 8:35. I have also booked two skating times with Mrs. Sandhu’s grade 1 class. Our first skate will be on Friday December 9th and our second skate will be on Monday January 23rd. Both times we skate at 9:00am so will have to leave the school at 8:35am. We also need parent drivers for both of these days. I will be sending home permission forms shortly.
A reminder that Thursday is hot dog day.
Have a great evening
Mrs. G
