What a wonderful day we had making Christmas elves and tree ornaments. A special thank you to Joseph's parents, Ava's mom and Domenic's mom for helping making the day such a success.

Math

Today we solved some problems involving a bit of reasoning and some understanding of the relationship between metres and centimetres / centimetres and millimetres. Most students seemed to understand the problems. For example:

Jack and Jill both jumped between 3 m and 4 m. Jill jumped 6 cm further than Jack. What are two possible jumps? 

I like these questions because there are so many different answers. You know that there are 100 cm in 1 metre and both jumped over 3 m but not more than 4 m. So if Jack jumped 3 m 60 cm than Jill jumped 3 m 66 cm. Choose any measurement in cm for Jack then add 6 cm more to get Jill's jump. Don't forget the 3 m.

We will continue with decimals and measurement in the new year.

Religion

Today's story involved the person shown below....

What was Joseph's response to the Angel Gabriel's message?

Reminders:

• Movie and pajama day tomorrow. Everyone I asked wanted to watch a movie in the classroom.
• Don't forget to put your ornaments on your tree!
• Don't forget to take home your beautiful poinsettia. Place it on a special gift at Christmas.