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General Studies Update

Here is a quick update from General Studies.

Math

Pattern detectives!

To begin the year, our focus in Mathematics has been patterning and sorting objects
by their various attributes. Our students
truly enjoyed being pattern detectives as they walked through the halls searching for colour, shape, and size patterns.
They have learned to identify, extend, and describe patterns and their pattern rules. The students have also used various material to translate patterns from one form to another, for example, using words and pictures to demonstrate the same “AB” pattern. One very important lesson was allowing the children to discover that when they are problem solving there can often be more than one correct answer.

 

They have been given many opportunities to problem solve and persevere when doing so. The students will begin exploring various strategies to use when solving addition and subtraction problems.

 

Language Arts

In reading, the classroom structure we are using is called Daily 5. The Daily 5 is a literacy structure that teaches independence and gives children the skills needed to create a lifetime love of reading and writing. There are five tasks being introduced.

  • Read to Self
  • Work on Writing
  • Read to Someone
  • Listen to Reading
  • Word Work

Once all five tasks are introduced and the children are independently completing these tasks, we are able to work with small groups and conference with children one-on-one. The students have be introduced to Read to Self and Word Work so far.

Science

Living Things Brainstorm

In Science, we had a brainstorm all about the characteristics of living things. This brainstorm session kick started our exploration of living things and is leading us towards a variety of inquiry based learning questions. We look forward exploring the characteristics of living things.

Social Studies

 

 

Learning that we can have many different roles.

As we begin to explore classroom routines and learning skills, we are integrating our Social Studies unit on ‘Our Changing Roles and Responsibilities’. We have started to learn about our different roles and responsibilities in school, and will start to branch out and learn about our various roles and responsibilities in our homes and communities. The students are very proud of fulfilling their responsibility of returning their note totes each morning and placing any notes for the Morahs on the teacher’s desk.

 

Reminder: Tomorrow (Friday, September 27th) is Dress Down Day for Terry Fox Day. Please send your child to school with a Toonie for Terry!

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