Remembrance Day Ceremony
The students looked great dressed in their best clothes to participate in our Remembrance Day ceremony on Tuesday, November 9th.
May we all take time tomorrow to think about the soldiers that fought for our freedom and those that paid the ultimate price. Lest we forget!
Curricular Update
Writing Workshop
During our Writing Workshop this week, the students were given the following journal prompt:
On Remembrance Day we will take time to remember the people who fought for our freedom. We will be completely quiet and still for one minute to remember. What will you think about during your one minute of silence?
We brainstormed all of the things that we would think about during our minute of silence and then the students were asked to organize their ideas into a paragraph.
This week the students also had the opportunity to write letters to our "Canadian Heroes." The letters will be mailed out next week.
Math
This week in math we covered the following curricular outcomes:
Placing Numbers in Order
- plot numbers on a number line to place them in order.
- arrange a list of numbers in ascending or descending order.
- recognize that a two-digit number is less than any three-digit number.
- identify errors in a sequence of numbers in order.
Differences of 10 and of 100
- recognize when two numbers differ by 10 or 100.
- use place value to say that one number is 10 (or 100) more (or less) than another.
- add or subtract 10 or 100.
- complete number patterns that increase or decrease by 10 or 100.
Science
To conclude our Rocks and Minerals unit, the student wrote an "open book" assessment. The students were allowed to use their lapbooks to answer all of the questions. This type of assessment allows the students to focus on the meaning and understanding of the information and less about the memorization of the material.
PE
We continued to work on throwing and catching skills this week.
Travelling Art Program
Every year we have the travelling art program come to our school. It is a wonderful way to expose children to Canadian artists. This year's collection is called "Margaret's Mountain" by Elisabeth Belliveau and it consists of 7 pieces that are all connected to show a story. Each piece was used to create a stop-motion film by the artist. There are 3 cross stitching pieces (Title, Dedication and "The End") and then 4 main pieces that show different parts of the story. One of main pieces is being used as the inspiration to create a collaborative story. Each class is being given the opportunity to observe the piece and then add one sentence to develop the story. We were so excited to have our turn to add to the progressive art story this week. The story will be published when the story when it is complete!
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