Week of January 14th- 18th
Important Information
The Read-a-thon is well underway and students have been SUPER engaged in reading as many minutes we can through the course of our day :) Please continue to track your minutes at home and collect your pledges to help us with our library redesign.
Dress Like Your Favourite Character Day
Tying in with the Read-a-thon, Friday, January the 25th is Dress Up Like Your Favourite Book Character Day. I will talk more about this, with the students on Monday.
January 30 - Fun Lunch
January 31 - Division II (Gr 4, 5, 6) Music Concert
January 31 - Last day fro Read-a-Thon
February 1 - No School for students
February 6 - Read-a-Thon forms and money due
An email will be sent out next week to inform parents about our work on foods in our global communities!
Highlights from our week:
In math we have been working on our Ikea bedroom design to use a real-life application of addition and subtraction with regrouping. We have also been playing games like double or triple digit addition war and our magic 10s to continue building our math facts.
We have continued to work in our literacy centers in our literature circles as we work on fluency and comprehension of texts we are reading. We have also introduced the teachings of the buffalo (respect) and have worked to identify ways we show respect in our own lives. We have been working on a visual journal entry with a sketch of a buffalo and some writing to document our learning. We also had some free write time!
In social, we have been looking into the animals that live in our the global country we selected earlier in the year. We finished our quick research task that asked us to find 3 animals we were interested in and to record 3 facts about each of those animals along with a quick sketch of the animal.
We had two special guest readers this week! Ms. Taylor Rooke, who is a member of a national bobsledding team, joined us early in the week and Mr. Mark (Ryder's father), a senior firefighter joined us on Friday. We LOVED our time with both of our guests :)
We've watched a couple Tinga Tinga tales to get us thinking about Pourquoi Tales :) They are great!
We are doing gymnastics in PE.
We did some flashlight reading with our buddies :)
Have a great weekend!!