A look back at an amazing week:
•Narrative story writing continued. •Cursive writing continued. •Following the teacher read aloud of: Thank You Mr. Falker by Patricia Polacco, we analyzed the story while referring to Bloom’s Taxonomy of critical thinking. •Science: We tested the question, Which type of pillar is the strongest; square, triangular or cylindrical? •Skill development: How to use a dictionary. •Basketball basics: ball handling, shooting, passing. •Low floor high ceiling math task: ‘Five garden beds need rebuilding. How much wood will we need to do the job?’ •Adding and subtracting 2 digit numbers using a giant number line. A look forward to next week: •Continue our math task around the garden bed question. •How many snow people are there? A school - wide LFHC math task. •Functional writing assessment. •Science: Test various beam designs to find the strongest.
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A look back at an amazing week:
A look back at an amazing week:
•Math: adding with friendly numbers. We added double digit numbers ie: 49 + 40= by using the number line. Practised adding by playing Sum Stack to 100 and to 200. •Chess: We've learned how to record a game in progress, then continue the game later. Most students continued previous games. We had several checkmates, including some very creative ones! •Writing: Responding to literature: After the read aloud of Pink and Say by Patricia Polacco, students were asked to identify altruistic acts within the story and write these using full sentences. •Reading: Our first journey into online reading resources. Students read from Tumblebooks. Several students taught their classmates about Tumblebook discoveries by sitting in the teacher's chair, using the teacher's computer and teaching! •For the very first time we sang O' Canada a la Français, 'A cappella' and without lyrics to read! •Art study: We've been learning about Canadian artist Sandra Silbersweig. https://sandra-silberzweig.pixels.com/index.html?tab=images Using her unique artistic style as inspiration, we're exploring abstract self portraiture with glue, soft pastel and awareness of the ishness of our own unique style. A look forward to next week: •Swimming every day! Please be sure to send your child with a towel and swimsuit. •Monday 2:00 pm: a performance in the gym about the birth of the Canadian Pacific Railway breathing new life into the nation. •Completing our Silbersweig self portraits. •Potato harvest. Fly On The Wall Moment: In the middle of math class the kids burst into singing the song they've learned from Mr. Symington for Treasure Island. They could hear another class singing the song
! A look back at an amazing week: •We sang O'Canada a la Français without the lyrics for the first time! •Visualizing numbers as dots: A Low Floor High Ceiling math activity. Looking for patterns and anomalies when we see numbers from 1-28 represented as dot groups. •We used collaborative writing and word play (with Mr. S.) as the kick starter for writing poems around the theme 'Apples'. Students wrote with great focus. Sharing happened with positive comments offered. It's all about building skills, competence and confidence as we take risks. •It's a positive sign that silent reading really is silent! •Library visits are now as needed: students visit on Monday or Wednesday when they need to exchange books, rather than as a whole class. •We joined our kindergarten buddies at their learning centres this week! •Good snow offers learning opportunities. The Snow Person Investigation began with building small snow people and carrying them into the classroom for measurement activities. "Mr. S. I wonder if the melted snow will weigh more than the snow?" •Health discussions this week focused upon The Golden Rule and how we can make it part of our daily life. Also, I introduced the concept of 'Water Off a Duck's Back'. We can choose to dismiss little bothersome things the way water runs off a duck's back. A look forward to next week: •Finish our Snow Person Investigation. •Daily math 'saw sharpening' games. Race to 100, Sum Stack, Difference Struggle. •Begin looking closely at the traditional algorithm for addition. •Writing poetry: The cinquain poem. •Writing: The verb in a full sentence. •Visual art: Self portraits inspired by artist Sandra Silbersweig •PE: Large, cooperative games, begin basketball. •Science: Building with a Variety of Materials. Note: Parents, we are in desperate need of more volunteers for swimming during the week of October 15-19, 2018 - 9:00-9:45 each day at Village Square Leisure Centre. Please help us. We need three each day, (not counting the teacher). You don't need to get wet! A look back at an amazing week: •Buddy reading with 30 kindergarten students was fun. •Our skill using addition strategies has really grown since the start of school. •Playing the math game 'Sum Stack' is an engaging way we're learning 2 digit addition. •We collectively made and ate apple crisp. The apples were picked from Chloe's tree in the neighbourhood. Thanks Tara and Chloe! •Writing: Collecting words, building a Writer's Notebook. •Thanks to Lana Skauge for visiting and enriching our class with games and word collecting. A look forward to next week: •Using the blank number line to find differences and to find sums. •Apple math: Using apples as the real life connection for a variety of challenges around mass. We'll use the weigh scale to find precise weights, then use our strategies and skill to solve some questions. If a student eats an apple down to the core, how much of the apple did she really eat? How many apples did we use for the apple crisp we made last week? How could we find out by using the apples we have left over? •Writing free verse poetry around the theme of apples, focusing upon using rich adjectives and adjectival phrases in our writing. •Self portraits inspired by the art of Sandra Silberzweig. •PE: soccer outdoors if the weather allows. A look back at an amazing week: •In Math we continue to expand our repertoire of strategies around addition and subtraction. •Our daily math conversation always includes the terms perseverance, growth mindset, conjecture, skeptic, group learning and sharpening our saw (skills). •We play at least one math game each day as a tool to rehearse skills and strategies for computation. •In Language Learning, parts of speech are a focus: the noun, adjective and verb especially. Learning to recognize these and include them in our writing is a Learning Target for every student. •Cursive writing takes very little time but offers many rewards. I enjoy speaking to each student about their efforts; encouraging, guiding and modeling cursive technique. We're learning through a kinesthetic approach for pencil grip, sitting posture and page placement. •Each day in indoor Physical Education we begin with our warm up stretching. We learned a new game: Treasure Trove. We played an old favourite game outside at the park: Team Tag. The team of three wolves runs down the herd, one at a time! •For our class learning about the Belfast Athlete's Code of Honour is a priority at this time of year. Every game is an opportunity for each child to improve their skills around sportsmanship, cooperation and The Golden Rule. •We're learning O' Canada a la Français and our pronunciation is improving! •In chess we've learned basic play, and now are learning how to checkmate an opponent. A look forward to next week: •Thanks to a generous donation of fresh, organic apples picked from the tree, we'll be exploring the math and writing around these wonderful, whole-food gems of nutrition. •Free verse poetry will continue with advice from storyteller and author, Lana Skauge who suggests we experience a freefall into our writing by gathering words and phrases before writing. •Fall leaves demand colour collection and drawing. This must happen before the snow comes! •Counting numbers in French from 1-20 is a new target for learning, beginning Monday. •We hope to do some baking with the apples, perhaps Apple Crisp? A look back at an amazing week:
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