Happy long weekend!

Today we read through a reader's theatre story called Jaime's (Un)lucky Day about a boy named Jaime who baked a special cake for his girlfriend for Valentine's Day. His sister accidentally knocked over the cake and ruined it. To apologize she bought Jaime a balloon. When Jaime invited his girlfriend over she talked about how upset she was because her mom had made her a cake (it turned out being the same type Jaime had made) and she couldn't eat it because she was lactose intolerant! So the ruined cake ended up working in Jaime's favor. We all enjoyed reading out the parts of the play. In the future we will use more reader's theatre stories to practice how to read clearly, loudly and with expression.

We continued to learn multiplication strategies. Today we talked about arrays. Arrays are equal rows of shapes that can be used to show a multiplication problem. We had to create arrays based off of multiplication sentences and then write multiplication sentences based off of arrays. Ask me to show you what the array would look like for 5 x 7 = 35

Remember: the first number in the multiplication sentence is the number of rows you would have, the second number is how many shapes will be in each row and the third number is the total.

This afternoon we had our spelling tests. The spelling review for each group was sent home. Please make sure that you are practicing your words! We will have another review of 40 or 50 words in a few weeks.

Reminders:

- There is no school Thursday, Friday or Monday for students

- We have library on Tuesday

- Pillars of Care assembly is next Wednesday. Students who are winning awards will be bringing home a sheet today