Rights, and Whole Numbers

Today we discussed the Canadian Charter of Rights and the importance of each right and freedom. We also touched on the voting process and how it is important to us especially with the upcoming elections. I suggested to the students to begin watching local news broadcasts to see coverage of the campaigns.

We have also begun a new unit in math. We will be talking about whole numbers in this unit, which will include place value up to 100 000, comparing and ordering numbers up to the same value, addition and subtraction, and multiplication and division. It is a lot covered in one unit, so it would be good to practise these skills at home each night. Today we began with identifying the place value of different digits in a number, reading numbers and writing them in words, and comparing numbers to find out which is larger/smaller, or ordering a list of numbers from smallest to largest (and vice versa). We will continue with practising these skills tomorrow.