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December 10, 2019
Happy December! Students in grade 3/4 have had a busy few weeks. We have DJD coming in every Wednesday to teach us different types of dance - last week we focused on swing dance and we learned moves like Shorty George and the Charleston. Ask your child their favourite dance move! Students in Ms. Jaques's class are continuing to work on building strategies to solve addition and subtraction problems. We are developing our flexibility with numbers. Some of the strategies we've come up with are Expanded Notation (breaking down each number and adding one place value at a time - 458+391 = 400+300+50+90+1+8), and Friendly Numbers (rounding to the nearest friendly number, then adjusting - 298+155 = 300+155-2). Practice these at home with your child! A great game you can play is the "license plate game" - find 2 license plates with 3 or 4-digit numbers and practice adding them together in your head. You can also do this with addresses or building numbers. We are beg