Week of October 16-20

 What We Learned This Week: October 16-20


Literacy:

In Literacy this week, we continued with our writing personal narratives.  As a class we read the book The Party as a mentor text to help students brainstorm ideas for their writing about a time they have been to a party using their memory pocket. Students continued to work through creating a plan, a draft, and revising their work using our 3,2,1 check it, then sharing their story about a party they had been to with a partner.  


In phonics, students were exploring the long /e/ sound looking at the vowel team of ee in words such as, sleep, green, need etc. 



Numeracy:

In numeracy this week, students were placed into their small, flexible groupings for their Math centre rotations: Teacher, Practice, Game and Fluency. During the teacher rotation, students were in small groups focusing on a specific skill, practice rotation to reinforce the skill, game rotation is hands-on game that focuses on the current skill or a previously learned concept for review and during the fluency rotation, students go on Prodigy to practice their mathematical fluency.  

During our targeted teaching rotation, students were introduced to skip counting by 25's and 50's starting from zero.  This week, students continued to explore skip counting through money and how they can use their knowledge of skip counting to help them determine the value of a collection of coins and bills. Grade 2's focused on determining the value of coins and bills of the same denomination and Grade 3's focused on determining the value of a variety of denominations of coins and bills using their knowledge of skip counting. 



Students also completed their Place Value Assessment. 

Science: 

In Science this week, we continued our focus on matter by looking at solids, liquids and gasses and the changing states of matter.  We continued to explore this concept using the Scientific Method (question, hypothesis, observation, conclusion). Students engaged in an experiment with Jello to see if we could make all the different states of matter in one recipe. Students created a hypothesis, and connected the experiment to when they were observing all three states of matter and what process the Jello was going through at each point in the experiment. For example, the water added to the Jello powder was a liquid, when boiling the water we created a gas (water vapour) through the process of evaporation, then when the boiling water cooled we observed the process of condensation, and finally when we put the Jello in the fridge, it turned into a solid through the process of freezing. 



Oct. 23-27 - Inline Skating - please bring your own helmet if possible 

Oct. 30 - Picture Retake Day

Oct 31 - Halloween Parade at School

November 9-14 - Fall Break - No classes

November 15 - Classes Resume 


Have a wonderful weekend,

Ms. Browne 

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