November 5, 2020

 Hello Families, 

Now that the Halloween celebration excitement is over we have been able get lots of work done this week. Here are some of the highlights:

1. Math

- Continuing our understanding of pictorial representations of patterns to solve problems

- November calendar including special dates

- Introducing skip counting by 2's, 5's and 10's

- Introducing our patterning art

2. Helping at School

We brainstormed ways we could help at school (during covid) and created mind maps with pictures and words. This was a continuation from the ways we help at home and connects to our Social Studies learning about rights and responsibilities.

3. Outside time

The beautiful weather has allowed us to take our Daily 5 reading time outside into the garden. We also learned about sentences and wrote a sentence with sidewalk chalk. Another day, we completed our first smudge, a First Nations ceremony of burning sage. 

4. Nature Observation Time

We looked at some interesting pieces of nature and made observations and guesses. We also learned about scientific drawings being detailed and including labels. Here are the cool artifacts we had in our classroom this week...

Take care, 

Ms. Brown