Friday, December 3 – Term 1 Learning Summaries will be sent home

Friday, December 10 – SRC Candy Cane Day (Dress in red and white)

Wednesday, December 15 – Christmas Spirit Day

Friday, December 17 – Last day of school before the break and school wide pajama day.

Tuesday, January 4 – First day back to school and National Ribbon Skirt Day

The reading comprehension strategy we have been learning about is called questioning.

“When readers learn to question while reading:

• they are learning the power of asking as well as answering questions.
• they are encouraged to be curious readers.
• they learn that asking questions can lead them to a greater understanding of the text.
• they learn the difference between quick questions and deep-thinking questions.
• they learn that not all questions have answers, and often these unanswered questions will help to get at the heart of the story better than those that can be answered.” – Adrienne Gear, Reading Power

Quick Questions

• quick to ask
• quick to answer
• answer is right there in the book (literal thinking)

Deep Thinking Questions

• answer is not in the book
• answers come from you (“I think…, “Maybe…”) inferential thinking
• often there is no one right answer
• usually lead to more questions
• help us think beyond the story

Winter is here and the students worked hard to draw and colour their bears with scarves. I like how the students all put their own creative touches on their drawings. The pictures are currently on display in our classroom. Enjoy!

To show our respect to Remembrance Day, the students created Flanders Field Poppies.

In our health class, we wrapped up our unit on internet safety by creating U.Y.N posters. We started by making criteria for what a nice safety poster would look like. The class decided it was important to have the following criteria:

1. Detailed pictures that are coloured
2. Explain at least 2 NetSmartz rules with correct spelling
3. Fill the space on the paper with UYN rules and pictures

The students were allowed to copy their NetSmartz rules from their notebooks or from the NetSmartz pages posted around the classroom. The students worked hard to illustrate, colour, and create their internet safety posters. They are currently posted in the hallway outside of our class.  I hope you enjoy them.

Link: The Royal Canadian Legion Dominion Command Poppy Trust Fund

Here are some monsters we created just in time for Halloween.  The students worked hard drawing, outlining, and painting their masterpieces. Have a fun and safe Halloween!

Click below to see the Google Meet instructions for our conferences next week.

Google-Meet-Instructions-October-2021

To Parents and Adults at Home….

Your child’s class is beginning a mathematics unit on Numbers to 1000.
In this unit, your child will:

• Show a 3-digit number in different ways, using concrete materials, pictures, words, and numbers.
• Compare and order 2-digit and 3-digit numbers.
• Skip count by 5s, 10s, and 100s forward and backward to 1000.
• Skip count by 3s, 4s, and 25s forward and backward to 1000.
• Estimate how many items are in a large collection by comparing it to a known quantity.

Here are some activities you can do at home to support this learning:

• Use play money to model numbers and to develop understanding of trading or grouping. For example, show that $342 can be modelled as $300 + $40 + $2. Using play bills for $1, $10, and $100 helps to reinforce place value.
• Play a number comparison game:
  Remove the tens and face cards from a deck of regular playing cards. Deal 3 cards to each player.
  Each player uses the cards to make the greatest possible 3-digit number. The person with the greater number gets a point.
  Repeat. The first player to get 10 points is the winner. Play the game again, this time making the least number possible.