We had a full week even though it was only 3 days! Students had fun with their new after school activities and yet again added some pretty creative dance moves to their morning dance on Wednesday. They reflected on what a respectful student looks like during counselling time with Mrs. Wright. I am now starting to have students reflect weekly on our school's SLRs and which ones they think they were glowing, and which they are still growing. They will upload to Seesaw
What an enthusiastic group of learners! They earned another star party and wanted to do science experiments, so next week we will spend some time in the lab. The class was very techie this week learning how to use 2 new applications to create projects about communities, make toolkits to help them with writing and they also are getting more familiar with sharing work on Seesaw. I have shown all student the Home Learning document on our Home Learning tab. PLEASE email me if you have any difficulties. We spend time each week to celebrate any work students chose to do.
Upcoming Events:
-Swimming this week is on Thursday, Library is Wednesday
-Hari Raya Cultural day is Friday, students may dress in local dress and we will have our hallway activities at 10:00, assembly will be at 11:00. Mrs. Pike will be gone as I have IASAS tournament for coaching this weekend.
-Parent MAP workshop is 10:00 Thursday. MAP scores will be going home this year for all students, so it is a good workshop to just get informed about how to interpret scores and how the assessments work.
-Friday 22nd no school
-I will be sending a letter to you soon to ask if you have parent conference preferences for time slots. We always book siblings in different grades together.
-Parent MAP workshop is 10:00 Thursday. MAP scores will be going home this year for all students, so it is a good workshop to just get informed about how to interpret scores and how the assessments work.
-Friday 22nd no school
-I will be sending a letter to you soon to ask if you have parent conference preferences for time slots. We always book siblings in different grades together.
All About Seesaw
Thank you all for signing up to view your child's account. I apologize if you have gotten many notifications lately. Sometimes I share things with all students to edit and manipulate, you receive those updates, so you can ignore those. The kids often decide what they want to put into Seesaw, and often reflect on how teaching points in our units are going. This will turn into a digital portfolio, so that is why they use it often to upload videos, images or it is for me to see if they are understanding a recent lesson. Thee are not rehearsed and many are not necessarily final products, so there may be errors, it may sometimes be misspelled or confusing. I spend time commenting or talking with students about their posts, but wanted you to know that it is an ongoing, working process that they are doing not their final products. Sometimes I send announcements via Seesaw, you can reply if you would like. Students will learn about comments and Imojis this week and how to be ethical when using them.
Math
We continue to work with Base Ten relationships and modelling. This week we played games and solved riddles based on clues about each place as well as discussed the VALUE of digits and where that comes from. This will stem into expanded form and standard form of numbers and comparing numbers in coming weeks. We are practicing addition facts each week and still working on effectively skip counting from various points up and down by 5s, 2s and 10s.
Reading and Writing Workshop
We are in revising stages right now, using mentor authors and narrative rubrics and checklists to see how our writing can become even better. Students have spend a few days setting goals and trying to reach those goals by improving their writing so that is is more detailed or more readable. We have learned about powerful leads and endings and how to add actions, talking and setting details. We will work more next week on powerful words and creating a intended mood with our stories. In reading we are done with our strategies from Bend 1 which you will see in Seesaw. The class used a sticky note application to record thinking jots and will continue to practice reading more fluently, setting goals for number of pages and minutes read and taking time to stop, think and jot it down. Next week, word attack strategies!
Social Studies
We are now studying how communities are organized and learning about urban, suburban and rural. Students shared their home communities and some similarities and differences we have in our class. We read about them on Big Universe, watched Brainpop and created posters and Ibooks about the three different types. Next week we will start learning about producers, consumers, goods and services and what jobs are most important in a community. We will have some class debates and do some school tours and interviews to see what kinds of services are in our school community.
Word Study
Initial word assessments have been done. Next week we sill start looking at long vowel teams and reviewing prefix, suffix and base words. We will explore some adjectives and start using our handwriting booklets. Each group of students will be given individual words to sort, explore and learn how to spell. Then at the end of coming weeks I will send them home for your use.
At Home
See if your child would like to do any of the Home Learning activities. Continue reading each night. Please know reading with and to your child is still wonderful and students can also use: Tumblebooks, Big Universe and RAZ kids as they have loggins for each. RAZ kids they can record their voice, and I can listen and comment. Continue finding opportunities to have them skip count, count groups of objects around the house and practice math facts while passing or kicking a ball. Ask them to point out buildings, parks, jobs, shops etc. in their community. Also, have them orally retell a story in the car about something that happened over the weekend with details. Oral storytelling is a great starting place for crafting a story and planning before writing on paper.
NOTEWORTHY EVENTS
This is a great Science Festival that would be so fun to take kids to next week=)
http://www.sciencefestival.my/
Math
We continue to work with Base Ten relationships and modelling. This week we played games and solved riddles based on clues about each place as well as discussed the VALUE of digits and where that comes from. This will stem into expanded form and standard form of numbers and comparing numbers in coming weeks. We are practicing addition facts each week and still working on effectively skip counting from various points up and down by 5s, 2s and 10s.
Reading and Writing Workshop
We are in revising stages right now, using mentor authors and narrative rubrics and checklists to see how our writing can become even better. Students have spend a few days setting goals and trying to reach those goals by improving their writing so that is is more detailed or more readable. We have learned about powerful leads and endings and how to add actions, talking and setting details. We will work more next week on powerful words and creating a intended mood with our stories. In reading we are done with our strategies from Bend 1 which you will see in Seesaw. The class used a sticky note application to record thinking jots and will continue to practice reading more fluently, setting goals for number of pages and minutes read and taking time to stop, think and jot it down. Next week, word attack strategies!
Social Studies
We are now studying how communities are organized and learning about urban, suburban and rural. Students shared their home communities and some similarities and differences we have in our class. We read about them on Big Universe, watched Brainpop and created posters and Ibooks about the three different types. Next week we will start learning about producers, consumers, goods and services and what jobs are most important in a community. We will have some class debates and do some school tours and interviews to see what kinds of services are in our school community.
Word Study
Initial word assessments have been done. Next week we sill start looking at long vowel teams and reviewing prefix, suffix and base words. We will explore some adjectives and start using our handwriting booklets. Each group of students will be given individual words to sort, explore and learn how to spell. Then at the end of coming weeks I will send them home for your use.
At Home
See if your child would like to do any of the Home Learning activities. Continue reading each night. Please know reading with and to your child is still wonderful and students can also use: Tumblebooks, Big Universe and RAZ kids as they have loggins for each. RAZ kids they can record their voice, and I can listen and comment. Continue finding opportunities to have them skip count, count groups of objects around the house and practice math facts while passing or kicking a ball. Ask them to point out buildings, parks, jobs, shops etc. in their community. Also, have them orally retell a story in the car about something that happened over the weekend with details. Oral storytelling is a great starting place for crafting a story and planning before writing on paper.
NOTEWORTHY EVENTS
This is a great Science Festival that would be so fun to take kids to next week=)
http://www.sciencefestival.my/
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