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    Agincourt Road Public School

    1250 Agincourt Road, Ottawa ON K2C 2J2


    Tel: (613 225!2"50 #A$: (613 225!5%0&
    Dear parents/guardians,
    Welcome to November! There is a lot of exciting stuf starting this month!
    IMPORTANT UPCOMING DATES
    Progress Reports
    Progress Reports ill be sent home on Thursda!,
    November "#
    th
    $
    Photo retakes
    Thursda!, November %
    th
    $
    Parent-teacher interviews
    &vening of Thursda!, November '(
    th
    ) *+%,#(
    -orning of .rida!, November '"
    th
    ) /,#(+""
    No schoo!
    .rida!, November '" + P0 Da!
    "OR#
    Dict$e
    We continue to do our dict1e in class ever! ee2$ 3oth the grade #s and grade
    *s have a small activit! to do each da! to practice their ords or concepts$ 0t
    home, the! should be practicing at least '+# times a ee2$ 4n addition, grade #
    students are completing a dict1e duotang hich reinforces the sound of the
    ee2$
    Rea%ing
    Please continue to read T"O boo2s A "EE# from our borro+a+boo2 program$
    Reading .rench ever!da! ill help !our child improve 5uenc!, vocabular! and
    comprehension$ 6ust a reminder, the! should be rea%ing each &ook ao'% at
    east once$ 7n our class ebsite, under the tab 80t home reading9, !ou can
    :nd a variet! of ;uestions that !ou can use to reinforce and chec2 !our child<s
    understanding$ 0s2ing '+= of these ;uestions per boo2 is a great opportunit!
    for parents to engage their child in deeper thin2ing$
    "riting
    We are rapping up our >ournal entr! pro>ect from the point of vie of an
    earthorm / roc2 and ill soon be starting a small social studies research
    pro>ect on ?anadian ph!sical regions$
    Math
    7ur unit on patterning @creating, identif!ing, and extending repeating patterns
    and number patterns using addition, subtraction and multiplicationA is coming
    to a close$ Boon, e ill be focusing on number sense and numeration @math
    families @#C*DE, *C#DE, E+#D*, E+*D#A, adding and subtracting to / three
    digit numbers, decomposing numbers into thousands, hundreds, tens and ones,
    representing and ordering numbers to "((( in grade # and "(((( in grade *A$
    Practicing basic math facts ever! da! at home ill greatl! improve !our child<s
    con:dence and abilit! in this unit$ FPlease note, ords that have been
    underlined are the expectations that diferentiate the grade * curriculum from
    the grade # curriculum$
    Socia St'%ies
    We ill have >ust begun our social studies unit on Giving and Wor2ing in 7ntario
    @#sA and ?anada Provinces and Territories @*sA$ We are beginning the unit ith
    an overvie of landforms, t!pes of communities and regions and each grade
    ill end the unit ith a special pro>ect$ Hrade #s ill be assigned an intervie
    pro>ect and the grade *s ill do a pro>ect on provinces and territories$
    4nformation on both of these pro>ects ill be sent home soon$
    "e&site
    Remember to chec2 m! ebsite for homeor2 and dates of school related
    activities!
    -adamepoirier$eebl!$com
    Iere<s to a great November!
    ?atherine Poirier
    MATH UPDATE
    We are beginning our next math unit on addition and subtraction. Students will develop strategies
    for adding and subtracting whole numbers. They will use mental math, estimation, and pencil-and-
    paper calculations. Addition will be our first focus, followed by subtraction. Some of the mental
    math addition strategies that will be taught in class are shown below.
    Splitting Strategy: Split the numbers up
    by their place valuedigits and add
    together.
    !" # $%
    !&# $& "#%
    '& # ()

    %)
    Adding On Strategy: *rea+ ,ust one
    number -often the smaller one. into their
    place value and add it on in parts.
    !)% # ($'
    # (&& # $& # '
    !)% ))% )%% )/(
    Moving Strategy: Adding is a total, a
    sum of all the parts. 0t does not matter if
    you mix u the arts, because the sum does
    not change. So you can move an amount
    from one number to the other -in order to
    ma+e a friendly number. and you will get
    the correct answer.
    $1% # '%"
    - )
    !&& # '%) 2 "%)
    -Thin+: '%), %%), /%), "%).
    Traditional Strategy: 3arrying ones and
    tens.
    Add the ones Trade the ones Add the tens
    for a ten
    (
    '1 '1 '1
    # )" # )" # )"
    (/ / (&/

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