And here we are at the end of a very short week already!

Reminder - no school this Friday, so tomorrow we will have our Language Quiz on adjectives (words that describe nouns) and our WOW test.  Also, those who wish to perform this week's poem Icky Bugs will be entering the Poetry read off!  Good luck to everyone!

Reminder: tomorrow is Rock Your Socks Day in support of World Down Syndrome Day!  We are asking students to wear fun and funky socks tomorrow to help emphasize the individuality and different characteristics each child or person with Down syndrome brings to our world. Each child is born different and those differences need to be acknowledged and celebrated.  So, get out those crazy socks and wear them proudly tomorrow!

Next week, Miss Holland takes over and delivers instruction in Language, Social Studies, Religion and Visual Arts.  We are all very excited to learn from her indeed!

Math Test:  Tuesday next week we will wrap up our brief unit on Multiplication and Division.  Students are trying to learn up to their 11 times tables (although in grade 3 the expectation is up to x 7 tables).  If your child is unable to count swiftly and efficiently by 1s, 2s, 3s, 4s, 5s, 6s, 7s, 10s, 11s please practise at home. I will send home the Math duo tangs for review Monday night and offer them to go home this weekend for those interested as well.

Students are expected to be able to...

• Relate addition to multiplication and subtraction to division.                   Ex. 3 x 4 is the same as adding 3 groups of 4 together 4+4+4.
• Represent a multiplication sentence in an array or by using groups          Ex.   5 x 3  can be represented as this array to the right:
• Solve problems involving multiplication and division
• Divide into equal groups

Counsellor Wilson

SECRET QUESTION:  How are these numbers related - 5, 3, 15  

A.  Multiplication and Division 

B. Addition and Subtraction