Hello Families!
Some Important Dates:
April 11th - Coulee Walk at 9:00 am
April 12th - Our Peace Assembly at 9:30 am - 9:50 am (Families are welcome!)
April 19th - Non instructional day (no school this day)
* Please have your child come to school with appropriate footwear and clothing for our Coulee walk on Thursday morning (we are hoping for some warmer weather than what we had this week!) We also have our peace assembly next week Friday April 12th beginning at 9:30am in the gym. Please arrive on time so you can find a seat. The assembly will run for about 20 minutes. Some of your children may have come home with a script - practice these lines with them so they feel confident and are ready to speak at the assembly!
Our learning:
Literacy:
- This week we wrote about the signs of Spring using our senses. We read books and watched a video to help us describe what we might see, hear, smell, and feel in Spring (despite the snowy weather outside right now)
- We also worked on making our Spring writing more detailed and descriptive to make it sound more interesting.
- Using our prior knowledge of revision and editing, we then went back to our writing at the end of this week to enhance our writing to make it better. Everyone has really been thinking about their writing goals as during our writing process!
- In reading, we discussed how emphasis/expression of certain words in a sentence can really help us understanding the meaning of sentences. We are also continuing to build our fluency and automaticity when reading in our targeted reading groups.
- In grade 1, we are continuing to engage in number talks and estimation games to help solidify our understanding of mental math and the different strategies we can use to help us solve math problems.
- We also continued to review balanced equations. We are working on strengthening our understanding of different strategies we can use to help us with addition problems.
- This week we introduced problem solving questions, drew pictures and wrote number sentences to help us solve different addition problems.
- In grade 2, we introduced 2 digit addition (ex. 25 + 30). We had the opportunity to be hands on with some base 10 blocks to help us adding 2 digit numbers. We also used our knowledge of skip counting to help us with 2 digit problems.
- In Science, we continued to discuss the different bodies of water and some of their properties. We learnt that these bodies of water are important for us in terms of drinking water, providing a habitat for animals, transporting people and goods, etc.
- We also made real world connections by discussing the different bodies of water we might have seen on our Coulee walk as well as what bodies of water run through Calgary.
- We then drew these different bodies of water in our visual journals.
- In Social, we were introduced the Acadian community and learned about their way of living, traditions and customs.
- In our visual journals, we created a "I see, I think, I wonder" to help us write what we saw in the videos we watched about the community, what we think is happening in these communities, and finally wrote about some questions we are wondering about.
- We also had the opportunity to buddy up with our grade 3/4 friends to help us see different signs of Spring! We sketched, coloured, and labeled and we will have the opportunity to show you what we have worked on during the assembly, so stay tuned!
