September 16-20

Welcome to Room 18 and 19
Classroom Blog

Thank you for all who attended our parent, student and teacher conferences this week. We enjoyed meeting families and getting to learn more about our students. If you were not able to book an appointment we would still love to have the opportunity to meet with you and your child.

Homework will be posted here. This will only consist of work that has not been completed during class time each week. There is no homework this weekend.

This week the students worked hard to finish their work to display and share at conferences. 

Please make reading a daily routine. Support students to become independent readers by reading to them and having them read to you. You can go to the Public Library where everyone can get a free Library card. There are so many reasons to read. Read for the joy of it, to learn something new or explore a passion!

Reminders: Thursday Sept. 26 is our Terry Fox Run. The envelopes to collect donations was sent home. Our goal is to raise $2000 and if we do, Mrs. Baker has volunteered to dye her hair whatever colour the students vote on.

LITERACY
Choosing the right books to read is very important. We focused this week on how to choose appropriate books using the "IPICK rap.





Students had their library orientation on Thursday so they can now start taking books out to read both at school or at home. Students who would like to take part in the home reading program by taking leveled book are welcome to talk to us so we can get them started.

How do you know if you are picking the right book for you? What's the 5 finger rule?

SCIENCE
We have begun our recycling project for Ranchlands school. Students will be collecting the green recycle bins, organizing and ensuring there has not been garbage accidentally recycled. Our first week of collection went well, very busy but we are going to work together to create the most effective and efficient system possible.

Ask your child to tell you the process of recycling a plastic bottle. They were SO FASCINATED with the process and had a lot of interesting questions that we can't wait to explore.

MATH

We have been learning about INCREASING PATTERNS this week. Students filled out a hundreds chart and  created three different patterns using three different colours. They then had to explain the pattern rule on the back. They worked in partners to try and identify each others patterns.

For example: "My pattern starts at 7 and increases by three each time"

Can you create a pattern at home and ask someone in your family to try and guess the 

PATTERN RULE?

   

We continued solving our Apple Problem from last week to model the expectations for work in Problem Solving:
1) Label the page and question number  (if from text book) or write down the problem.
2) Show your work with pictures, words and numbers.
3) Write down the solution.
Next week the children will explore solving math problems in their math book.

FRENCH
We explored the book Patate Pourrie, which was brought in by a student. We continued making connections between what we know in French, similar English words and pictures to make sense of the story. We used google translate to check on one word we weren't sure of.

Look below. What do you think "J'ai gagne!" or "PFFF!" means?




What is your favorite colour in French (Quelle est votre couleur preferee)? We used coloured egg shakers to practice learning, singing and saying colours in French. We also took our learning outdoors to explore "Les Couleur de l'Automne. Quelle couleur as-tu vu (What colors did you see)?

  

        

     

     

ART

 Students completed their 3rd self-portrait using mirrors.

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What did you notice about the changes from your first drawing to your latest drawing? Did the mirror help you make changes to your drawing so it looks more like yourself?