Riddle of the Week: “What has more lives than a cat?” – Carolina
Reminders:
Skating: Due to the administrative transition at Tyee right now the skating schedule has not been finalized. This means our first day of skating will NOT be Monday January 9th. I apologize for posting incorrect dates. We are hoping to finalize skating next week and I will be in touch with more details.
Report Card Envelopes: Please remember to send report card envelopes back to school so they can be reused for term 2. Thank you!
Work Charts
Grade 1:January9-13_grade1workchart
Grade 2: January9-13_Grade2workchart.docx (1)
Grade 3: January9-13_grade3workchart
Math
Grade 1: this week the grade 1 students will continue working with triangles and will be introduced to the golden bead material. The golden bead material is a great Montessori material to teach and learn place value and hierarchies.
Grade 2: this week the grade 2 students will continue working with triangles and will be reviewing the golden bead material for addition. They will be learning how to use this material for multiplication.
Grade 3: this week the grade 3 students will continue working with the large bead frame for addition, they will continue working with triangles and reivew the multiplication board. The grade 3 students will also be learning the checkerboard this week!
The Triangle Detective Game
Addition using no materials!
Language
Grade 1: the grade 1 students will be learning and reviewing nouns by participating in ‘Nouns at the bakery’
Grade 2: the grade 2 students will be reviewing all of the parts of speech that they have learned so far this year and will be practicing their word study using the classification cards.
Grade 3: the grade 3 students will learn about adverbs using the grammar boxes
Reading Buddies: we have started buddy reading with Ms. Becky’s kindergarten class. The students in Division 5 read with a kindergarten student every Friday morning for 30 minutes.
The grade 1s learning about ch and sh! Following this lesson, the students went on a ch and sh hunt in the classroom!
All three grades are using the triangle detective game to test their knowledge. This material is a language material as well as a math material.
The Lemonade War – the grade 3 students who participated in our literature circle are now hard at work creating a cube book report!
Culture
Now that we have studied our solar system in depth and created our own planets we are going to focus on our Earth. We have started studying the layers of the earth. This study will propel us into our study of rocks and minerals.
States of Matter lesson.
Layers of the Earth.
Social Responsibility/Classroom Culture
During our peace circle on Friday I expressed how proud I was of the kindness and respect I am seeing in the classroom! The students have had an exceptional first week back at school!