Week # 10

What a busy week!!!

Reminders: 

Adventure logs are due Monday

Library on Tuesday

Please return yellow interview forms.  Grade 3s, please return field trip forms.


Math: (Please try websites below)

We continued to on Number Sense skills. We will be moving on to addition this coming week.  Check out these sites.  It allows your child to create numbers using base-ten blocks  (online manipulatives)

https://www.coolmath4kids.com/manipulatives/base-ten-blocks

http://www.glencoe.com/sites/common_assets/mathematics/ebook_assets/vmf/VMF-Interface.html
(I like this one... you can add work mats and use the base-tens-  like the other photos below).   

Make a chart like the one below in the photo.  The columns are titled: Number, picture, Base-ten, and Words. Give your child a number. Have them complete the chart.  

We also completed some Remembrance Day math. Students had to solve questions in order to colour a hidden picture in a hundred's chart. The hidden picture is a poppy.

Language:

We have been working on an activity book about John McCrae the author of the wartime poem In Flanders Fields. As a class, we read the text together about John McCrae and have been working on answering some reading comprehension questions about him

We have been reading and discussing Remembrance Day.  Students wrote about what peace is.  First, we brainstormed then students wrote out 4 things that meant peace to them.

Social Studies:

Grade 2s:  Examining the celebration of Diwali (Hindu New Year- Celebrated on Wednesday, Nov 7) and Remembrance Day

Grade 3s: Exploring 2 First Nations Groups-- The Wendat and the Anishinabe


Music:

We practiced our Remembrance Day songs for the assembly.

Books we read this week:

    

Week #9

Hello families!!!

Reminders:

Monday- Adventure logs are due

Tuesday- Library.  Please return library books

Friday- Remembrance Day assembly 9-10am


Please return eye exam (both grades) and field trip forms (grade 3 only).

Continue to dress for the cooler/ wet weather.

Thank you for your support in ensuring that students are not bringing candy to school after Halloween.

We continue to work on making our classroom environment a quiet work environment.  Please remind students of classroom expectations.

Please continue to practice the 2 Remembrance Day songs.  Links to the songs can be found on last week's post.




What did we do this week?

Math: Because it was Halloween this week, we did some Halloween themed math activities. Students went home this week with a math and literacy package.  They can work on it at home for practice.  

We looked at word problems this week. Specifically, 2 part math problems.  Students were asked to read the question.  Take our the information that was not important.  Figure out what is important. Answer what is the question asking me? Decided on a math strategy. Show me their work. Finally, answer the question using a sentence. 


Here is an example of a math problem:

It was a nice day at the pond.  There were ducks floating, frogs hopping and fish swimming.   On one big brown log there were 12 green and speckled frogs. A second log had 7 frogs more than the first log.  How many frogs were there at the pond?

(Answer: 31)

Students would use the following template to answer the word problem question.

We started numeracy this week as well.  Students are representing numbers in various ways.  For example:

- how many ways can you show me 24? (they can use pictures, numbers, and words)

- Where would this number be on a number line

- Show me how to make _______ number using ten frame blocks.

Language:

We completed our 5 Sense of Fall descriptive writing.  Students are now working on a descriptive paragraph for a monster and creating a Lost Monster poster. 

We also completed our Kindness Posters.  Mrs. Tsiolas' class voted on our posters to select the top 3 posters to go to the schoolwide contest. The classroom winners are Keira, Bayanne, and Jumana!  Congratulations girls!! The Kindness Committee will look at the entries from all of the classes in the school to determine the final winners.   

 

 

Student posters were judged by their peers on the following criteria:

- Message related to kindness 

- Effective use of colour and space 

- Clarity (picture matches the message)

- Eye-catching 

On Halloween, students from grades 1-3 were combined and put into groups.  They circulated to 4 different Halloween themed learning centers.  I hope they all had fun!!

Books we read this week:


 

Here is the video link to an audio version of the book I Need My Monster