Updates for the Week of October 5-9
Reminders:
- October 9 is a non-instructional day so there will not be school on Friday
- October 12 is Thanksgiving Day, so no school on Monday
- Picture Day is coming up on Thursday, October 15
- Students are reminded to take home their snack and lunch garbage or containers.
- Google Classroom is a great place for review, to get caught up, and complete digital based assignments. Take time to review and have your child go over the set up and organization of this resource and ensure access while at home.
It has definitely been a busy couple of weeks and we are going full steam ahead with our units of study in all areas. Here is an overview of what we have started and will continue with over the next few weeks.
ELA (English Language Arts):
- Developing paragraph writing skills and incorporating strategies and checklists for students to independently proofread and edit their own writing.
- Reading for understanding using different parts of the brain to connect, visualize, synthesize, transform, and infer.
- Using different reading genres to continually improve student's reading comprehension and challenge them to read a variety of texts to build vocabulary and literacy skills.
Math:
- Statistics Unit with a focus on using graphs to interpret, collect data and determine appropriate graphs to accurately show information.
- It is recommended students practice, review, and build their multiplication and division math facts up the the 9 times table. Here is a link for a variety of practices: https://www.factmonster.com/math/flashcards
- Problem of the Week activities are assigned at the beginning of the week to be completed and submitted by Thursday. The problem and each component starts at grade level and gets more challenging with each question. This is a great way to look at how to tackle word problems with specific strategies and develop accuracy in calculations when students understand the problem and what they need to solve for. These are weekly practices that provide us an opportunity to discuss and see other students' strategies. In time, there will be specific problems for students to complete for formal marking.
- Students are learning about a very specific ecosystem, Alberta Wetlands. There are links to information in Google Classroom to research and gather a list of animals, plants and insects that make their homes in the fens, ponds, marshes, bogs, and swamps.
- Students are learning about the physical regions that make up Canada. They are using this as an opportunity to read for information, synthesize information and organize the information to later make comparisons in addition to developing an understanding of how other people in Canada live and utilize the land. In Google Classroom, there are digital versions of two textbooks that is used for information and vocabulary needed for this unit.
This year, our class will be participating in the Scholastic Reading Club program. Reading every day is the best way for children to become independent readers.
NEW this year: your order will now ship to your home and you can order online whenever you want at scholastic.ca/clubshop. When you checkout, please enter my Class Code: RC238352. When you use the Class Code, our class earns 20% of the value of the order in rewards and you get Free Shipping on your order of $35 or more*.
*Orders below $35 will be charged $3.50
Here’s to a great year of reading!
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Our classroom code is: RC238352