Oki parents and guardians, Students in room 23 were really excited to see their work shine on last week's blog. Many wanted me to share their terrific work from this week as well. So hold onto your tablets, here we go with more photos and news! W.O.W. Time: During W.O.W. time, students chose a "sit spot" where they could get to know the land and see it transform over time. We practiced kakyosin this week by listening to the sounds around us. Afterwards, students shared their discoveries in Sharing Circle. They heard the wind, leaves, traffic, birds and grass.
Math: This week, we began to look more closely at numbers. We are exploring how to "make numbers" using their fingers, cubes and objects around them. Students also learned about "Friendly Numbers": numbers that together add up to make 10. Students continue to be excited about patterns and are finding them all around them. Just yesterday, some of my students were excited to showed me patterns that they had discovered with their clothes, when they were jumping on a trampoline (up, down, up, down), and even their eyes! Another way that we are practising our numbers is by playing games. Every morning during calendar time, we add a day to our poster and count the number of days by jumping and saying the numbers aloud. We call this the Jumping Game. We also practised our counting skills by playing "What Time is it, Mr. Wolf" outside. This was a lot of fun to watch and play! We are also getting fit while counting to 100 with Jack Hartman videos. Check it out! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTeUqWGCKjA Writing: Students are building their writing skills through daily printing practice (Morning Work) and journals. For two journals, before writing, we also added a bit of math: we talked about preferences, tallied our opinions and reviewed how to write numbers using letters and symbols. Buddies: Grades 1 and 2 students are building their reading skills through opportunities to read with their grade 5 buddies. Some students played sight word games with their partners this week to change things up. Here are some pictures from last week's pyjama day with our big friends: Reading Strategies: When Ms. Jackie is in our class, we break off into small groups to work with the teacher or in partners. Ms. Jackie focused on letter sounds with her group, while Ms. Sara introduced the Picture Walk strategy to make predictions before reading new books with her groups and played some reading/ spelling games with her students. Students will continue to build reading skills through different mini-lessons and practice sessions guided by teachers. How do you choose an interesting book, magazine or article to read? This week, we learned about using the Goldilocks Strategy to find "Just Right" books to help us to stay interested in reading for longer periods of time. Check out our reading stamina graph to see how we are progressing : If you are looking for opportunities to support your child's reading at home, or just want to check out some interesting new books, I recommend Tumblebooks, an on-line resource that has audio of great kids' books. Check it out! http://www.tumblebooklibrary.com/auto_login.aspx?u=calgarypl&p=sd19 The library also has Bookflix with great fiction and non-fiction books: https://calgarylibrary.ca/read-learn-and-explore/eresources/bookflix/ That's about all the news from this week! I hope that you enjoyed the photos.
Have a great weekend, Ms. Sara :)
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Lindie VanderSpuy
10/28/2019 07:43:42 am
Thanks Ms Sara! So fun to read about what is going on. Love the counting and moving; recently read studies that show we do better at math if we combine it with movement.
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