LITERACY
The students worked on a cumulative project for our IDEAS focus in writing this week. Students were asked to draw a haunted house and complete an idea web focusing on specific details. They were reminded of the 5 Ws and using their senses when brainstorming details. Students were then asked to write a paragraph, starting with a topic sentence, about their haunted house. Students enjoyed this project! One thing that I noticed in looking over the paragraphs is that several students got caught up in creating a story about their haunted house instead of writing a descriptive paragraph including details from their idea web. We will continue to work on sticking to our plan when writing throughout the year.
NUMERACY
This week we reviewed the different ways that we can write a number. Students completed a Check Up for lessons 1 to 6. Marks have been posted to PowerSchool. Next week, we will turn our attention to comparing numbers.
SOCIAL STUDIES
This week, we looked at the provinces and territories in Canada. The size of our country is such a hard thing to grasp when you're a young student. I've been teaching students about the size of our country for years and I still don't think I really grasped it...that is until I drove across it this summer! We are trying to give them some perspective of our size and low population, relatively speaking.
We also started looking a bit closer at the continents. We started with North and South America. We watched a quick three and a half minute video by National Geographic. Students were asked to pick out a couple of facts that they feel are important to remember and jot them down on sticky notes. We shared our notes as a group and then the students wrote two to three sentences using our jot notes in their continents booklet. At first the students were overwhelmed with gathering the important information from the fast paced video. On the second attempt, they had already shown improvement! Next week, we will complete the same activity for the last 5 continents.
HALLOWEEN
To see all of our Halloween photos, click here!
We had a fantastic day celebrating Halloween on Wednesday! A huge thank you goes out to Decklan, Cayleigh, Abbagail, Wyett, Rebecca and Orion's parents for supplying our party snacks! The students really enjoyed the treats!
CHRISTMAS CARD FUNDRAISER
We have been working on our Christmas cards for the fundraiser and will be putting them together on Monday. They need to be pressed flat over the weekend. I will post a photo of the finished product and send home the order forms on Monday. Orders are due on Thursday. I apologize for the quick turn around on this project...things have been super busy the last few weeks and we started this project as soon as possible.
IMPORTANT REMINDERS
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