Over the past two weeks we:

• focused our read alouds on making mental pictures when we are reading and paying attention to character traits as we get to know the characters in the books we've read.

• learned about the beginning and middle of personal narrative writing.

  • • beginnings include the who, what, where and when 

    • middles are the heart of the story and often use temporal words (first, then, next, all of a sudden, finally) to help organize the sequence of events

• worked through all but the very last kite string letters in handwriting. Once we finish the p, we will be on to the loops letters!

• wrote in our journals

• completed our writing screeners

Over the past two weeks we:

• completed the provincial math screener

• learned how to use Touch Math for subtraction up to the number 8

• mastered the take away 9 strategy

• started our place value unit

• were introduced to How Many Ways...an absolutely amazing number sense activity!

Over the past two weeks we:

• learned about changing states of matter. We learned about melting, freezing, evaporation and condensation due to the impact of heat or cold

• completed a jello experiment to see water in all three states

• explored the water cycle

• created our own water cycles in ziploc bags

The students really enjoyed the live presentation from Terry Fox's niece today! 

They were completely silent and focused on her message...Terry Fox was just a normal kid that grew up to do great things!