Reminders

Skating: Our next skating day is Thursday February 9th from 1:00pm-3:00pm.

**Library Exchange/Home Reading: It is your child’s responsibility to bring home a levelled book to read with you (or a sibling or a pet). Your child is also responsible for making sure that book is placed back in their backpack so that it returns to our classroom. Please let me know if you have any questions regarding library exchange.

Work Charts

Grade 1: February6-10_grade1workchart

Grade 2: February6-10_Grade2workchart

Grade 3: February6-10_grade3workchart

 

Math

Grade 1: grade 1 students have been learning about 3-D solids from their older classmates and will continue practicing the names and parts of these solids.  Students will continue using the golden bead material to practice large number addition.  We will begin learning multiplication this week using the golden bead material.

Grade 2: grade 2 students are practicing multiplication using the many Montessori materials they have been taught (stamp game, golden bead material, multiplication board).  Students are also learning and reviewing 3-D solids with the help of their older classmates.

Grade 3: grade 3 students have been teaching their younger students 3-D solids.  They have also been practicing their multiplication using the checkerboard and will be learning how to use the flat bead frame.

Language

While reading in the classroom, I am encouraging the students to visualize and make pictures and images in their mind (orthographic knowledge).  We have been practicing forming images individually while reading Harry Potter, but also practicing forming images together using colour, shape, texture, size and perspective.

Students have been busy creating sound charts that they can use as reference tools for their story writing.  These sound charts are meant to encourage thinking of letters working together to create sounds and to help improve spelling.

Culture

Rock Painting: students chose a rock that inspired them and painted that rock at the end of last week.  They worked diligently to represent their chosen rock accurately.  They were focused and I was impressed with their work and their ability to work as a team with the clean-up required after a painting project.

This week we will start our mapping project.  The grade 1 students will begin learning about the world and our 7 continents.  The grade 2 students will be learning about North America and the grade 3 students will be learning about Canada.  Each student (depending on grade) will re-create their map according to a set of criteria.

Social Responsibility/Classroom Community

Collaborative Inquiry

Showbie update: The grade 3 students were introduced to Showbie (an online portfolio) this week and began working on their first iPad project.  They are each creating a book in Book Creator about the Rock Cycle.  So far, it has been a positive experience.  The wifi in the school seems to be the limiting factor making it difficult for the students to have reliable internet.