End of the Week September 30th - October 4th
This week, we had our first snowy week of the year. We had lots of fun building snowmen and we even made a snow dinosaur one day. On Wednesday, we linked the snowmen to our work in math by estimating the height of the different snowmen and snowballs around the school. Our main focus this week, during our guided math, was to learn about patterns. We explored patterns counting forwards and backwards by 2's and 5's starting from both even and odd numbers. We made observations about what we noticed about how the ones and tens digits changed. Some of us even explored patterns counting by 25's. Here is an online game if you would like to practice recognizing and extending patterns. https://www.free-training-tutorial.com/pattern/towncreator/tc-pattern.html
In Physical Education class we put all of the basketball skills that we have learned together so we could play some 3 on 3 games. Mr. Pressey was assessing a bunch of skills that we have been learning including dribbling, chest passes, bounce passes, catching away from our bodies and proper shooting techniques.
We continued to learn more about writing a defeating fear narrative. We have gotten really good at orally retelling the story of The Skeleton Meets the Mummy. Once we got really good at remembering the story we started to change the story to make an imitation. Then we started to make a writing plan of our own imitation of the story. On Friday, we used our plan to write a clear orientation paragraph of our story.
During reading, we worked on becoming Code Breakers. We identified interesting words and phrases while we read books at our level. We also located words when we didn't understand.
There were two art projects this week. The first art project was related to Social Studies. We did a black and white painting of the boreal forest region of Alberta. We remembered to include pine trees and hilly land. Then we used pictures of animals and large trucks to complete our landscape. The other project we did was a step-by-step drawing of a zombie because it was fun and because Mr. Pressey's imitation story was all about a zombie.
Have a great week and remember that there is no school from the 11th to the 21st because of fall break.
In Physical Education class we put all of the basketball skills that we have learned together so we could play some 3 on 3 games. Mr. Pressey was assessing a bunch of skills that we have been learning including dribbling, chest passes, bounce passes, catching away from our bodies and proper shooting techniques.
We continued to learn more about writing a defeating fear narrative. We have gotten really good at orally retelling the story of The Skeleton Meets the Mummy. Once we got really good at remembering the story we started to change the story to make an imitation. Then we started to make a writing plan of our own imitation of the story. On Friday, we used our plan to write a clear orientation paragraph of our story.
During reading, we worked on becoming Code Breakers. We identified interesting words and phrases while we read books at our level. We also located words when we didn't understand.
There were two art projects this week. The first art project was related to Social Studies. We did a black and white painting of the boreal forest region of Alberta. We remembered to include pine trees and hilly land. Then we used pictures of animals and large trucks to complete our landscape. The other project we did was a step-by-step drawing of a zombie because it was fun and because Mr. Pressey's imitation story was all about a zombie.Have a great week and remember that there is no school from the 11th to the 21st because of fall break.
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