New Year

Good morning parents and students of 5C.

Happy New Year and welcome back to school!
I trust that you all had an enjoyable and restful Christmas break. 

Yesterday we discussed new years resolutions and goal setting. We brainstormed what makes a successful goal, and which strategies we can use to help us to keep up with the resolutions that we make. Today we will begin the day by making resolutions for the month of January, which we will revisit at the end of the month. 

In Math we reviewed division concepts. Just as we can think of multiplication as repeated addition, we can think of division as repeated subtraction. We practiced some examples of related facts, for example:
2x6=12
6x2=12
12÷2=6
12÷6=2
We can see a pattern as all of these facts are related to one another. The dividend in both division equations is equivalent to the product of the multiplication equations; the factors from the multiplication problems are the same as the divisors and the quotients from the division problems. 

As we wrapped up our chapter on the Atlantic Region in Social Studies before the break, yesterday we started a new chapter: The Great Lakes Saint Lawrence Lowlands Region. We read in the Social textbook, Voices of Canada, that this region is located by the areas mentioned in its lengthy name; this is the area that runs along the Saint Lawrence River, near the lower Great Lakes. In our early discussions of this region, we began reading about and interpreting the happenings at the Iroquois Confederacy, which was created by 6 First Nations groups before Europeans settled in North America, and is one of the oldest democratic societies.