Riddle of the week: What gets wetter and wetter the more it dries?
Wednesday November 23rd: I will be at UBC Wednesday morning for my BEd convocation. There will be a TTOC in the classroom until 12:00pm
Reminder: please return all HR MacMillan Space Center field trip forms as soon as possible!
Work Charts
Grade 1: november-21-25_grade1workchart
Grade 2: november-21-25_grade2workchart-docx-1
Grade 3: november-21-25_grade3workchart-docx-1
Math:
1s: The grade 1 students will be introduced to polygons! They will be creating a polygon book out of construction paper. This will put their knowledge of polygons and their fine motor skills (cutting using scissors) to the test!
2s: The grade 2 students will continue practicing their addition facts, but will also review polygons. They will be creating a polygon poster as a final product.
3s: The grade 3 students are practicing their addition math facts using various materials and will move on to multiplication this week.
A grade 3 student worked hard to complete the addition bingo game this week!
A grade 1 students practices their math facts using the decanomial beads.
A grade 1 student tackles the 100 board.
A grade 1 student works with the teen board.
Language:
1s: The grade 1 students will continue practicing their word study, sight words and levelled reading books. This week we will be talking about stories and how stories have a beginning, a middle and an end.
2s: The grade 2 students will be reviewing their knowledge of nouns, articles and adjectives using various manipulatives as well as stories! Our Catwings literature circle meeting will be on Friday November 25th during our morning work choice period.
3s: The grade 3s will be working on their usual grammar boxes and word study. They will start plural work this week as well. Their Lemonade War literature circle meeting will be on Friday November 25th during our morning work choice period.
We read all three hat books written by Jon Klassen. They sparked quite a great discussion about similarities and differences between the three books. We enjoyed the humor and simplicity of these books.
A grade 1 student gets their work organized for word study using the moveable alphabet.
Grade 2 students working on word study and a journal entry.
Ingrid the Scientist came into our classroom on Monday morning. We played around with balloons and made rockets. We also used a plasticene ball as an asteroid and dropped it into a bucket of flour to see what would happen. The students wrote about this experience in their journal, recounting the events, what they liked, what they didn’t like or what they found to be the most fascinating!
Culture:
The crater experiment. Students dropped a plasticene ball from height to imitate a crater hitting a planet.
The materials used to build balloon rockets!!
The data (information) we collected from our balloon rocket experiment. We created a scatterplot graph to illustrate what happens with varying amounts of weight.
The students have circled back and are now working in their space logbooks again! We are studying each planet in depth so that we are able to design our own planet in the coming weeks.
A student takes a closer look at Earth.
A group of students study the Sun.
Students studying Neptune.
Students studying Saturn.
Physical Education:
We will begin our week with Soccer as usual, but will start learning the game of badminton by the end of the week!
Classroom Community:
On Friday we had such a lovely pancake breakfast! Some students volunteered to help make a fruit salad for the breakfast. They stayed in at lunch to prepare!
Congratulations Ms. Langille, on your upcoming convocation! I was wondering if there is a way that we could live-stream the UBC event into the Div.5 classroom on Wednesday morning, so that the kids could watch their teacher receive her degree? Very exciting!