Well our first field trip of the year was a success! Last Friday we had a great morning learning and having fun at the Chiminike Children's Museum. Thanks again to all our volunteers, and to all the parents for making sure we all arrived on time with our snacks and clothing ready to go.
REMINDERS:
This Friday is our United Nations Day Celebration. 26 different countries will be represented at the celebration, and all family and friends are invited to join in the fun between 9:00-11:00 am. I look forward to seeing you there.
This week will mark the start of our Science Fair project process. Please lookout for an email or letter from me describing the nature and details of this project.
THIS WEEKS ACTIVITIES
Reading: We will be focusing on the reading skill of identifying and differentiating between fact and opinion this week. Our first activity will be during our guided reading periods with our class novel 'Stone Fox'. We will also work on reading independently and giving our opinion to other class mates of the books we're reading. Finally we will search through our collection of National Geographics for kids to find as many interesting nature facts to share with the class.
Writing: We are in the final stages of publishing our 'sensory series' pieces. The students have been working on revising and perfecting their pieces. Once we have our final published pieces we will work on reading them aloud to the class. Before we read aloud we will review all the essential points about speaking in front of people. (volume, clarity, pace, body language, expression)
Social Studies: As we have completed our first quarter science unit it is time to switch back to social studies during our Theme periods. This week we will incorporating our reading skill of identifying fact and fiction, and Friday's United Nations Day into a fun activity. Each student will be encouraged to choose a country from the 26 represented at UN Day that they do not know very much about. They will then give their opinion about the country from they're existing knowledge. For homework the students will then research online to find facts that they find interesting about the country, report these facts to the class, and see if the facts about the country change any of their original opinions.
Grammar: We will be working on everyone's favourite possessive pronoun: Their. And we will work on understanding the difference between Their, There, and They're.
Math: We will be continuing to work on multiplication and division. This week we will be introducing algebraic equations using multiplication and division. The students will work on solving equations and finding rules with mult and div problems. We are also continuing to practice our basic mult and div facts each day, with the goal of having our entire class join the 5 minute club. (a timed test of basic facts completed in under 5 mins) If your child struggles with multiplication and division facts I am happy to lend out flash cards for practice at home.
There will be no spelling words again this week due to UN day.
Please enjoy the photos below from our field trip, and remember to look out for a message about the Science Fair. Thank you,
Jordan Rose
FUN!!!!
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