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Now that the progress period is over, I will be sending home a lot more completed work with grades to help students understand the level they are at in their understanding. Sometimes there will be a rubric attached with their achievement circled, sometimes there will be a level grade (level 1 - 4, 4 being highest), sometimes there will be written feedback, sometimes not. Rubrics that go home will be in English to allow you to go over them with your children and help facilitate conversations. If the rubric/marking scheme that is attached to your child's work has an area for you to sign, please make sure that they bring this work back to school with them. Certain assessments and activities are helpful for me to reflect back on throughout the year for planning and extensions.
Also new this week: if your child has anything sent home with them on Friday to complete, it is because they haven't completed it in class during the agreed-upon timelines. Please make sure that it is completed over the weekend and RETURNED BY THE MONDAY. It is very important that I receive it by Monday in order to assess and keep on track. Weekly Focus Math - Continuing with Number Sense and Mental Math Strategies This week, students will be creating their own word problems. This activates different areas of their understanding, and helps them work through problems in a different way. They will be given a questions like the following "The number is 32, what is the answer?" and will have to then be able to come up with, and solve their own problem for that question. Language - List writing! We're writing a list of ideas that we have on how we can help the animals at The Humane Society. I am hoping that this naturally brings out a giving back kind of focus for the month of December, and if the students take it there, we will be following that path and planning some events/ideas. AU sound this week 1. L'eau 2. Aussi 3. Haut 4. Tableau 5. Chapeau 6. Animaux 7. Journaux Science - Simple Machines This week we are starting a unit on Simple Machines. This one is a big unit with a huge amount of information and new terms. The first couple of weeks will be introducing the different types of simple machines, and defining them so students can recognize them within their daily lives. This unit will last well into the New Year as well. Questions to ask - What was your idea for how to help the animals at The Humane Society? - How did you contribute to the class canvas for the "not-so-silent-auction"? - What types of simple machines are they and where do you see them around the house? - Give your child some numbers/math problems using two digit numbers, and have them solve them using the methods practiced in class (show your work using numbers, pictures and words)
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Field trip and parent-teacher interviews - this week is a busy one! Be sure to check your time for the interviews on the google doc. Meetings are 15 minutes in length and will not go over.
Weekly Focus Math - Number Sense and Mental Math Strategies For the next few weeks, the focus will be on understanding numbers, addition and subtraction. We will not only be focusing on traditional algorithms, but more student-generated and user friendly ones as well. This will allow students to really get to know the numbers and understand what is happening to them, rather than just memorize an equation. The focus in my math class is that students are able to explain, reason and justify their responses. Language - More reading and writing strategies. This week we will be learning about persuasive writing and the writing prompt for this week after our trip to The Humane Society is "what is your opinion about zoos. Are they fair to the animals that are in them? Why or why not?" IN sound this week because I was away last week, there was no dictée so we will continue with the same word list from last week. 1. un magasin 2. un timbre 3. un copain 4. un train 5. demain 6. le matin 7. les patins Science - positive and negative interactions with animals. Questions to ask - What was your opinion about zoos? Are they a good place for animals? Why or why not? - what did you like most about your trip to The Humane Society -Give your child addition or subtraction questions such as 46-8 and have them solve it mentally and the. Explain the strategy they used. If they are not quite there yet mentally, that's okay. Have them practice the same questions on paper using whatever strategy works best for them. Weekly Focus
Hello all. So sorry for the brief intermission from blog updates... here we are for week 10! Math - We are finishing up a unit on graphing. Specifically this unit we have learned about simple bar graphs, pictograms, tally charts and number lines. The students did a great job creating and asking questions to classmates, turning that information into a bar graph and then interpreting the data orally. These projects will be shared with you during parent-teacher interviews next week. Language - We have been having a very strong push for writing independently over the last two weeks and will continue this through until December. This will allow us to set up our choice-focused literacy program in the new year and ensure that students are working independently at all centres. This week features a story about an elephant in the class, and also a reflection piece on Remembrance Day IN sound this week Dictée words that have been chosen by the class: 1. un magasin 2. un timbre 3. un copain 4. un train 5. demain 6. le matin 7. les patins Science - solids and liquids. We have created a definition to categories different objects and will explore how different liquids dissolve or not into each other. Questions to ask - What did you write about in your story about the elephant in the classroom - Which graph did you find the easiest to create - a bar graph, pictogram or number line and why? -Do you remember all the sounds you have studied so far this year? (in, on, ou, oi) |
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