LITERACY
The students have continued to enjoy The Trouble with Chickens during our read aloud time each morning! They are loving the characters in this story! Ask them to introduce you to JJ, Moosh, Dirt, Sugar and Vince the Funnel. Our reading conferences are going very well...I am so happy to see the students using the reading strategies that I am teaching! It's so great when I hear, "I used that read around the word strategy and it ACTUALLY worked!" It's music to my ears!
We just finished our fourth week focusing on IDEAS in writing. The students are really getting a hang of things! This week we focused on using specific details to support our ideas.
During our Working with Words time, we completed a Making Words lesson and a Using Words You Know lesson. It's great to see and hear the students increased confidence using some basic spelling rules:
- We need an e at the end of the word to make the vowel long!
- That beginning sound is a triple blend, s-p-r!
- We need to put the two vowels side by side so the first one is long!
- That word rhymes with train so it ends in a-i-n!
NUMERACY
We have three solid lessons behind us in our Place Value unit and the students are grasping the concepts well! Sometimes students struggle with the idea of place value and for us adults, it just seems so simple. The JumpMath program, along with a great resource from Trevor Calkin's (a super amazing math teacher from BC), does a fantastic job breaking down the concepts for kids and I often see things click for some struggling students.
This week we focused on the following place value concepts:
1) reading numbers properly
- 347, three hundred forty seven
- no and (and stands for the decimal point in a number)
3) indicating the value of a digit
- in the number 238, the 2 is worth 200, the 3 is worth 30 and the 8 is worth 8
4) being able to draw a number using base ten blocks and being able to indicate the number using an image of base ten blocks
5) writing numbers in expanded form using numerals only and using words and numerals
or 123 = 1 hundred + 2 tens + 3 ones
SOCIAL STUDIES
We've started our first Social Studies unit on global awareness. Before we start looking at our four countries, we need to understand where we are in the world and the countries of the world are organized into continents. I introduced the students to a fun video that helps them remember the names of the seven continents of the world.
BLUE FLAME KITCHEN VISIT
The students in 3C really enjoyed a yummy morning after making fresh salsa and fruit salad! They learned so much about food safety, knife safety, reading and following a recipe and nutrition! It was a fantastic program! There is a parent/child cooking class on Tuesday evening (6-7pm) during Parent Teacher Meetings. You will be making no bake cereal bars!
To sign up, click on this link: https://goo.gl/LbGGx2
PARENT TEACHER MEETINGS/BOOK FAIR
I am available for meeting appointments on both Monday and Tuesday after school. The Enchanted Forest Book Fair will be running this week from Monday to Thursday. We will be going during our regular library period on Thursday.
UPCOMING REMINDERS
- The grade fours received about half the orders as usual this year for the fruit and cookie dough order. If you missed the Thursday deadline, Miss Potter will be more than happy to accept orders on Monday!
- The Earth Rangers are coming to RBES at 2pm on Tuesday and they're bringing four animals for the students to see!
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