Literacy Today we began developing the Main Idea of our narrative stories. We started with planning out what action our characters will take to solve the problem in their story, so that we don't have the problem of getting to the end of the story and not knowing how to end it. We also planned out two things that the character will try that are unsuccessful, before finally solving their problem. Math: We are continuing to explore division and how it relates to multiplication. We are learning how to show our mathematical thinking in a variety of ways and learning different ways that we can check our own work to ensure we know we have successfully solved the equations. Ask your child to show you how to solve 12 ➗ 4 using more than 1 strategy. Science: Our student teacher, Mr. Spackman, introduced new scientific vocabulary related to our new science unit, Testing Materials and Designs. Students explored Compression Strength and Tensile Strength by exploring a variety of mat