Ms. Brown's Blog: November 5, 2021

Hello Families,

It's been a busy and very high energy week in the classroom. I don't think having Halloween on a Sunday has done us many favours, haha! Unfortunately, we have had to have several conversations about expected behaviour in the classroom. We have been learning a lot about how to control impulses and be kind and compassionate to one other. I am hoping for improvement next week but if you could continue these conversations at home that would be appreciated.

To support this work, we created kindness pockets in our visual journals. Inside the pocket are specific strategies for how we can be kind at school and at home. We also discussed how kindness sometimes presents itself in unusual ways, such as being patient with others, or letting someone back into the line up after they had to go back and push in their chair. We can revisit our kindness pockets throughout the year when we are struggling to find ways to be supportive of others.

We continue to learn about place value through games and representing number activities. Many students are still struggling to grasp the concept of expanded form, so we will continue working on this throughout next week. Then we will begin some summative tasks on skip counting and graphing that I will share with you at conferences.

For science, we are learning about hearing and sound! Student's have loved learning about the parts of the ear and how sound waves are actually vibrations. Did you know that the anatomy of the ear has two different kinds of canals and something that looks like a snail? See if your child can explain these parts to you! :) Next week, we have a few hearing and sound experiments to conduct.