Hello Families,
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I hope everyone enjoyed the Thanksgiving weekend! Sounds like there were lots of fun festivities happening!
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This week we have been working hard getting prepared for the October learning assembly where we are sharing the work we have been doing around descriptive writing with the whole school! We have been learning about and creating our own similes to assist in descriptions and today we talked about the importance of being as specific as possible. Here are some of our classroom thoughts about descriptive writing:
What is descriptive writing?
- Words that explain
- Writing about something really descriptive, the writing has a lot of detail
- Using specific words
- Going beyond the obvious and looking for the unique features
- Thinking outside the box
- Using sight, smell, hearing, taste, feeling/touching
- Helps people understand what you’re talking or writing about
- Uses similes
- Follows a theme!!!!!
**Paints a picture in your head about what is being described!**
During our October assembly, we will be creating and sharing our descriptive paragraphs about our Halloween costumes. We are hoping they will be descriptive enough for the audience to be able to guess. We will also be creating an interactive board in the hallway for guesses to be ongoing in hopes of engaging the whole school community.
We are also going to be creating artwork around our simile learning to share in the school display case near the office. I will be sure to post pictures as we complete the work, however, here is the exemplar I created showing the combination of 2 ideas into one piece of art.
This week for outdoor learning, we learned about, sketched, and labeled the cedar tree. We also used cedar to smudge and learned it is another sacred medicine that is used for clarity of mind. We were able to spot many cedar trees in and around the school.
Tomorrow, we will learn more about building structures and towers and revisit a challenge from a few weeks ago that paired with one of my favourite classroom books, Iggy Peck, Architect!
We have also been learning lots about place value and playing some place value games. The game we learn next week will be easy to play at home. Next Tuesday, ask your child to share the place value game with you.
Thanks so much to everyone who purchased or returned their ADmazing Savings Books! Today, student passwords for RazKids and computer logins are going home. Please keep these somewhere safe so they can be referenced over the years at LBS!
If you would like to order from the online Scholastic catalog for October, please place your orders online! :) Classroom code: RC134162
Upcoming Dates:
October 18 - PD Day
October 21 - PJ Day
October 27 - our assembly (will be recorded and distributed for families)
October 29 - costume day at school - no full face masks (covid masks only), no weapons, no blood/gore, no shared snacks
Take care,
Ms. Brown
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