What an exciting afternoon! The students were all eager and interested in researching and learning about their country of origin! As one student made an interesting discovery, that student then shared with someone else and so on! Ask you child to show you what they discovered about their country. Hint: Most students discovered how to find and listen to their country's anthem and take a screen shot of their country's flag!! One student was surprised to learn that there is a volcano in the Philippines. She took a screen shot of the volcano and saved it into our community folder so that she can access it later as needed. learnalberta.ca is the link. the username is LA06 and the password is 4105.
Students worked hard this morning on their poetry writing. Today they wrote a poem about themselves and an animal in the style of a diamante poem.
We will continue to write a few more poems before we start to put them together to create our anthology!
After gym the students had their snacks with their buddies while their buddies were finishing up their word family work. Then we practiced singing out two songs that we will be performing for our winter celebration!! The students sounded wonderful! Then they each got to read with a buddy or two! Ask your child to tell you about who their buddy is, and if they read to their buddy or their buddy read to them.
After lunch we shared a few of the poems our friends have written and they are coming along great!!
In math we are continuing to work on adding large numbers using mental mental math, such as rounding.
In social studies the students came up with a LARGE list of questions that they are interested in learning the answers to by interviewing a family member. I will be emailing the list as well as posting here on the blog for your information. For Monday, the students should decide which 10 (at least) questions they would like to ask a family member. They are to discuss the question list with you, and who they will be interviewing for this project, and then can either highlight on paper and bring into school for Monday, or highlight it on the computer and email it back to me. At school we will practice asking interview questions and discuss the different ways we can record the information.
Important information
Friday, November 22 PD day NO SCHOOL
Thursday, November 28 FUN LUNCH
As today was another indoor recess day, please make sure that your child is dressed appropriately for the weather, even that walk from the car across the compound into the school can be a crisp one, especially with the wind chill factor!!
Homework:
In your homework journal:
Estimate at least one of the following problems.
Cohen has 27 video games and Ria has 49, about how many do they have all together?
If Bailey had her way, she would have 432 pets at home. Lauren would like to have 695 pets. About how many pets would they have all together?
Using mental math, solve at least one of the following problems.
158+213=
18+13=
788+422=
Make sure to write out the date; problem you have chosen; your work and your solution!
Reading 15-30 minutes
Mathletics 15-30 minutes
Question for the blog:
We will read yesterday's one on Thursday as well.
Who do you think you will be interviewing for your Origins project?
Have a great night,
stay warm,
see you tomorrow,
Ms. Handelsman
