Work charts for this week

Grade 1: grade1workchartoct31-nov4-2

Grade 2:  grade2workchartoct31-nov4-docx-1

Grade 3: grade3workchartoct31-nov4-docx-1

 

Classroom Library System (grade 1s)

Please remember to remind your child to read their take home levelled classroom library book. There should be a new book coming home every night.  They can read to you, a sibling or a pet! Also please remember to send them back to school in the ziplock bags I provided. The bags should have your child’s name as well as Division 5 written on them.  These books belong to Division 5.

Happy reading!

Monday October 31st: Hallowe’en

On Monday October 31st we will be celebrating Halloween.  There will be a school assembly at 9:15am and I encourage everyone to wear a costume!

We will have a class potluck.  Bring a small healthy snack (be creative with the Halloween theme: ants on a log, orange carrots…) or a treat to share with your classmates! Please also bring a healthy lunch as I’m sure there will be many treats on Monday.

We will also be carving pumpkins in the afternoon! I have 8 parent volunteers who will be helping us with this activity. I am asking that all students bring a small to medium pumpkin to school on Monday morning.  If you have any child-friendly pumpkin carving tools, please bring those as well.

 

Math

1s: we are still practicing our numeration and addition skills using various materials including the teen board, ten board and the snake game.

2s: The grade 2 students are learning the stamp game and using the golden beads and addition strip board to work through both static and dynamic addition.

3s: The grade 3 students are using the stamp game and learning how to use the bead frame to do their addition work.

Language

Metal Inset Project

All three grades are working hard on their creative metal inset projects.  Some students have finished while others are still working.  The students are required to fill out a self-assessment checklist when they are finished to see if they met the expected criteria.

 

1s: The grade 1s will be practicing their sight words by continuing to play the sight word memory game as well as using their sight word ‘ring’ to continually learn new words.  Each time a student successfully recognizes and learns a new sight word, they will add it to their ring.

2s: The grade 2 students will be starting a new literature circle book this week.

3s: The 3s will continue their Lemonade War literature circle with one new member, the Master Observer.

2s and 3s:  This week we will be reviewing my expectations around word study and grammar box practice in the classroom.  My expectation is that grade 2 students are practicing grammar boxes at least twice, and that grade 3 students are practicing 3 times.  This work in the classroom is meant to be repetitive and meant to be practiced over and over.  I do not have a home spelling program because of the work we are doing at school during the day.

Some students have been very excitedly writing stories and identifying all parts of speech using the Montessori symbols and colours to identify nouns, adjectives, articles, verbs, prepositions, adverbs etc.

Culture

This week the students will finish up their solar system posters.  We will do some drama around the order of the solar system and at the end of the week we will be doing experiments to illustrate the science around the different properties of the rocky planets.

Social Responsibility/Classroom Community

On Wednesday morning we had an impromptu peace circle.  There have been many incidents in the classroom where the students have not been as kind as they should be.  There has been teasing, physical interactions and rude tones.  This peace circle was quite successful.  Ms. I joined us and we talked about what it means to be kind, how we should treat our classmates, why we are at school and how our classroom community is a place that has the potential to be loving and supportive. Please reinforce this at home and remind your child how powerful words can be.