Reminders
Monday May 1st: Professional Development Day, no school for students
Thursday May 4th: Survival Swimming Skills for the grade 3s, 1:00pm-3:00pm
Work Charts
Grade 1: May 2-5_grade1workchart.docx (1)
Grade 2: May 2-5_Grade2workchart.docx (1)
Grade 3: May 2-5_grade3workchart.docx (1)
May Snack Schedule
Language
Students are still very much inspired by our poetry unit. Right now we are working on our emotional haiku poems. Ask your child what they chose as their emotional poem sparks!
This is our last week of Literature Circles for the grade 3s. We are wrapping up our Lemonade Crime book. We will be meeting on Tuesday for our final discussion.
Math
Grade 1 and 2: both grade 1 and 2 students will be finishing up with measurement this week (although they will continue to measure and track their plant growth). Students will be moving on to work with fractions before we start time.
Measurement: using animals to estimate and measure objects in the classroom
Grade 3: grade 3 students are using the data they have collected from their plant growth to created a scatter plot graph. This will be included in their learning fair project. Grade 3 students are also expected to be practicing their division facts using the Montessori materials.
Culture
My example poster board. -the blank work in the middle is for pastel artwork
The learning fair is fast approaching! Students have been working hard on their research, key word note taking skills, and draft writing for their projects. Almost all of the students in Division 5 have completed their diagrams and life cycles to include on their poster board.
This week students are expected to have their poem draft (about their learning fair topic) completed, as well as their pastel artwork completed.
Many students will be bringing their draft writing home to type for their poster board if it can’t get done in class. Parents be aware that draft writing will be coming home the week of May 8-12. Some students have already typed their writing in class or are well on their way and will have time to type up their work in class before that week.
Learning pastel techniques for our artwork component of the learning fair projects.
One grade one student has even finished her entire project. She was extremely driven and worked hard learning about gymnosperms.
Learning how to write sentences from keywords!
A grade 1 student creatively writing her sentences about flowers from her keyword cards.
Grade 1 keyword cards.