Week of October 30-Nov 3

                                                   What We Learned This Week: October 30-Nov 3


Literacy:

In literacy this week, we began a mini unit on poetry. Students learned what poetry might look like, sound like, feel like and what poetry makes us think about. 

Students read various poems together as a class to identify how a poem is similar and differnet compared to a story. As a class, we read poems by Shel Silverstein. We also practice choral reading the poem Bats by Jack Prelutsky and identified the different aspects of poetry in his poem such as repetition. Students then read the book Stelluna and watched an educational video on bats to learn more facts about bats. Students began creating their own poems about bats using information about their appearance, diet, habitat, and other interesting facts. Students will be finishing these poems next week and sharing them with the class. 


Numeracy: 

In math this week, students began our new unit on Data and Graphing. Students reviewed what data is. Students learned the difference between first-hand data (data we collect ourselves to use) and second-hand data (data collected by others such as, on websites, textbooks, experts, and social media platforms). Students conducted surveys in the class by asking other students various questions to collect first-hand data. Students then took their data and created a bar graph. They learned the important parts of a bar graph such as, a title, categories, a scale, the x-axis and y-axis. Next week, students will be learning about dot graphs.


Science:
This week in Science, students learned about the water cycle with the following learning intention:I can describe and diagram the changes of states of water using the water cycle. Students applied their knowledge of the changing states of matter to the water cycle and learned about evaporation, condensation and precipitation and how it works in the water cycle. They then created water cycle diagrams on ziplock bags to use to observe the water cycle in action. We will be filling these bags next week with water and taping them to our classroom window and making observations. You can view the water cycle video here.




Important Dates:

Nov 8 - Indigenous Veterans Day and Remembrance Day Assembly 

November 9-14 - Fall Break - No classes

November 15 - Classes Resume 

November 16- Final Inline Skating Day 

Nov 17 - Healthy Hunger Kernels 

Nov 23 - Coasta Vida


Have a wonderful weekend,

Ms. Browne 

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