Hi Everyone,
Wow, I can't believe that it is already December. Time has just flown by!
Thank you to all the parents that came out to parent teacher conferences. It has been a pleasure speaking with you all, and I hope that you have seen and are proud of the things that your child is doing at school!
We have set out a class goal to achieve 500 Class Dojo points. We get points for different things such as being on task, participating, being respectful, helping others and doing the expected. 500 points seemed a little daunting at first, but week by week we chipped away and finally reached our goal. As our reward we decided to have a class stuffy day. I really enjoyed seeing everyone's fluffy friends!
Word Work
This week in word work, our focus was on the qu grapheme. We learned that q and u always have to be together like in the words quiet, quick, square and queen. We noticed that the "qu" grapheme sounds quite similar to "k", so following our learning of "qu" we worked on differentiating words that have a "qu" and words that have a "k" sound, trying to notice the slight difference.
Social/Writing
This week in social was busy with us completing our documentation panels! We learned and made Haiku poems! This was a fun project as this was the first time we have done poetry in class. We learned that there are three lines in a Haiku poem. The first line has 5 syllables, second line has 7 syllables and third line has 5 syllables. We all picked our favorite landform that we are connected with (mountains, grasslands, forests, foothills) and wrote our poems about that region. Finally, our last piece of our documentation panels involved us connecting to the prairies and the various landforms. We used chalk pastel to represent each of the four landforms, and traced our face on top to show our connectedness to the prairies. Big thanks to Ms. Hinder for all her help creating this wonderful knowledge and documentation of our work.
Math
This week in math we moved into some work with statistics and data analysis. We used our social interests to fuel our math learning. We surveyed each other to find out which landform we chose to rite our Haiku poem on. We started with tallying and counting each region. Following this, we created bar graphs to visually show our results. It turns out that most people were connected to the mountains and forests!
Well that is it for know. Thank you again to everyone for coming to conferences! I really enjoyed meeting with all of you.
Have a wonderful weekend!
Mr. N
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