September 31-October 5

Room 18 and 19 Weekly Update

Updates:
- After school program runs every Tuesday and Thursday
- Bridge club runs every Wednesday after school
- Mr. Hippe's RSVS (Ranchlands School Visual Storytelling) club has begun on Monday and Wednesday's during lunch. The students are VERY excited about this!
- NO SCHOOL: Friday, October 11th (PD DAY) and Monday, October 14th (THANKSGIVING)

Homework- Homework is only sent home if they did not complete the following in class.
1. Literacy: Show what you know about the "Owl in the Shower" our class read aloud
3. Science- complete resource page with legend of renewable and non-renewable resources
4. Social- complete filling in natural resources found or thought to be found in Ranchlands community to help meet the basic needs of the first people who lived here.
5. French- using google translate to complete the poem," Les Couleur de l"Automne. Complete a good copy.


LITERACY
Listening is an important part of literacy. It is essential for following a story and being able to  make connections within the story and to our current learning and lives. Students "Showed what the know about the book"

QUESTION:What connections have you made with the story? Can you give a summary of what the first 3 chapters are about? Anything that really stands out from the story that you remember?

We are continuing our study on non-fiction text and focusing on ZOOMING-IN to "Non-Fiction Text Features", such as table of contents, index, captions and glossary. We will be learning about the 5 reading powers designed by Adrienne Gear over the next month including:
1. Zooming in
2. Questions/Making Inferences
3. Determining Importance
4. Connecting
5. Transforming

These Reading Powers fill our brains as we read. We drew a visual to teach these comprehension strategies.





MATH/ART
Students are learning to work in groups as we explore using patterns to solve word problems. They are focusing on helping and encouraging each other by each bringing forth their strength. We are emphasizing how everyone has strengths and challenges and how working together can help improve in different ways.


QUESTION- What worked well in your group? Do you like working in groups? Why or why not?

Students used their knowledge of patterns to create a Autumn themed pattern leaf. They brainstormed various color patterns and used paint and sharpie to complete their art project.





Number Talks
"Number talks (or "math talks") are short discussions among a teacher and students about how to solve a particular mental math problem. The focus is not on the correct answer, but on all the possible methods of finding the answer." 



QUESTION: What number doesn't belong to a certain pattern or criteria and why? Did someone come up with an answer that you didn't think of? Can there be more than one answer or an explanation that really made sense?

SCIENCE
Students are now confident naming at least one natural resource that we use to benefit our lives, such as sunlight. We are now categorizing them into renewable and non-renewable resources. Students were introduced to a "Legend" and used a legend to add renewable and non-renewable resources to their Natural Resources assignment.

QUESTION- Can your child tell you at least one renewable resource and one non-renewable resource that we use and how it benefits our quality of life?

SOCIAL

QUESTION: What can you tell by this map?

 

QUESTION: What do you imagine were some of the basic need of the first people who lived in the territory we go to school in? What natural resources are there/were their on the land that could have been used to meet these basic needs?


A different perspective:


wild-rose

QUIESTIONS: How did the First Nations people relate to the land? What can we learn from their stories?

FRENCH
Les Couleurs de l'automne 


QUESTION:Quelles Couleurs sont dans ton feuilles (what colors are in your leaves)?

Using Google Translator





QUESTION: What are the rules for using google translate?
What words did you look up for to complete your poem  or  from "Les Mots" page? How do you say the words  in French?



QUESTION? Can you read these poems in French? What do you think they mean?