Important Dates
Thursday, Nov. 23 - Parent Teacher Conferences - Evening
Friday, Nov. 24 - Parent Teacher Conferences - No School
Friday, Dec. 8 - Non- Instructional Day - No School
*If your child is registered for choir, please click the following link to be added to the choir Google Classroom https://classroom.google.com/c/NjI5MTE0OTUwNTA0?cjc=2dt3ivw
*If your child is registered for choir, please click the following link to be added to the choir Google Classroom https://classroom.google.com/c/NjI5MTE0OTUwNTA0?cjc=2dt3ivw
Important Information
We sent home information for your child's account for Raz- Kids. The instructions for how to log in should be attached to their username and password. We did not assign books or levels to each child and this might be something you can work through with your child on the books they should be reading. If you have any questions or would like to know where your child should start, please email their teacher directly.
Our learning
We had a very short but mighty week! We continued discussing Diwali (The Festival of Lights) and learned about Metis communities as Nov. 12 - 18 is Metis Week. Ask you child of some of the symbols of the Metis.
Literacy:
- We used a picture prompt (a frozen mountain landscape) to build our descriptive writing skills. Some child used their sense to describe how they might feel if they were inside the picture, while others wrote a story about what might be under the ice. Ask you child what they wrote about.
- To help us during the Writer's Workshop we learned about the five finger planner. Ask you child this planner (HINT: topic, detail, detail, once, feeling)
- We made an anchor for the task of reading with someone and practiced with reading with a friend today (pictured below)
Math:
- The grade ones and twos are strengthening their understanding of skip counting. Grade ones are working towards counting by 2s, 5s, and 10s and the grade twos have moved to skip counting by 20s, 25s, and 50s.
- We are also continuing to build our knowledge of representing and describing a variety of numbers to build our number sense.
- During the last few weeks, we are learning about different ways of counting (ex. groups of ten, fives, subtilizing, etc.)
Inquiry:
- We are diving into learning about matter
- This week we discussed what makes an object an "object" and how everything is made of matter.
- We learned about manufactured object and natural objects and their differences.
- The students were very excited to learn about how things are made. Ask you child how tires, pencils or utensils are made.
- In Social Studies, we are learning about different communities and introduced the term rural by drawing and labelling a rural landscape.
Thanks for reading!
