Week of October 2-6

 

What We Learned This Week October 2-6


Literacy:

In writing this week, we began our writing process of plan, draft, revise, share. Our writing goal for this week was to add more details to our writing and creating a focus for our writing. We talked about how sometimes we cannot fit all information into one sentence (becomes a run-on sentence), so we need to break it up into more sentences that still remain on topic. 

As a class we read the book If I Built a School and students created a picture plan if they were to build a school, what would they include in their school. Students then starting drafting their stories by creating a five finger story (topic, detail, detail, one time, feeling). Students will be continuing to use the five finger story to help them stay on topic and add details to their writing. This is the beginning stages of creating a focused paragraph. 

  In phonics this week, students were introduced to /reviewed the digraphs ai and ay that make the long /a/ sound. For example, in words such as, wait, train, brain, chain and may, day, gray, play say. Students were also introduced to controlled /r/ - er, ar, ir, or, ur in words such as, over, farm, corn, and hurt. 

Numeracy:

This week students were focusing on skip counting by 2s, 5s, and 10s to 100 forwards and backwards starting at different numbers. Students explored this concept with counting collections. Each pair of students were given a bag of a certain number of items that they had to count. Students explored what was the most efficient way to group and skip count their items to determine the total number of items in their bag. 


Students also participated in our weekly number talks. This week we did on a number talk using SPLAT! 



Today, students play a game called "Erase" to work on their fact fluency.

 


Science:

This week in Science,  students learned how materials can be combined to make a variety of objects. Students were also introduced to changes in states of matter. We learned about freezing, melting, evaporation and condensation. 


Important Reminders:

October 9 - Thanksgiving/No School

Oct. 10 - School Council Meeting (6pm)

Oct. 16 - Return Halloween Dance Forms 

Oct. 19 - Halloween Dance - Information sent home today with students

Oct. 20 - PD Day/No School

Oct. 23-27 - Inline Skating

Oct. 30 - Picture Retake Day


Have a wonderful long weekend,


Ms. Browne 


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