LITERACY
This past week we have:
- started one-on-one reading conferences during read to self time
- continued our read alouds introducing "good reader" strategies (we've been focusing on checking for understanding and backing up and rereading)
- participated in some working with words activities (Making Words)
- wrote in journals twice
- started our first of five weekly writing lessons focusing on ideas (Students learned to start their writing with a strong, specific idea. The convention that we focused on was using periods.)
NUMERACY
This past week we:
- focused on learning Touch Math to help us with our addition and subtraction facts in preparation for our patterning unit that we will be starting this week
Here is a video of me explaining the use of Touch Math with addition. In order to use it for subtraction, students just need to count backwards instead of forwards.
SCIENCE
This past week we:
- discussed the properties that we examine when classifying rocks and minerals (light {translucent, transparent or opaque}, streak colour, feel, smell, magnetism, lustre, hardness, shape)
- learned the difference between a rock and a mineral
- worked on organizing the information we have learned into our lapbooks
ART
This past week we:
- learned about Brazillian artist, Romero Britto, and his style and techniques
- completed a guided drawing of a fish
- filled in the Cubism inspired spaces with different designs
- outlined our drawing with Sharpie bringing bold, black lines to our pieces
We will finish them up this week! Stay tuned!
PE
This past week we:
- focused on locomotion games and following the rules and expectations of PE class
PHOTOS
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