Important Reminders:
March 12 - 100th Day of School and SPIRIT DAY: Dress like you're 100 years old
March 17 - SPIRIT DAY: Wear green for St. Patrick's Day
March 19 - EDO fun lunch and Mr. Pretzel (for those that order at healthyhunger.ca)
March 20 - NO SCHOOL
March 23 to March 27 - NO SCHOOL for Spring Break
This week we:
- had a very special guest visit our class to talk about the Olympic sport: Skeleton. Years ago, Mr. Russ won medals in the World Cup! He brought his sled and his gear for us to see! He showed us different pathways for the skeleton across the world. A few students had a chance to dress up in his gear and try out the sled with a skeleton 'simulator'.
- learned how to identify open and closed syllables in words
OPEN SYLLABLES
CLOSED SYLLABLES
- read words with closed and open syllables, found them in sentences and sorted them!
- chose an unusual animal that we would like to be our pet and we wrote about what we would do with that animal, teach it or how it could help us
- recognized Pink Shirt Day by listening to stories, watching videos, attending a whole school assembly, working with our grade four buddies and having a new kindness mission each day
- used two new addition strategies: 'counting on' and 'drawing pictures'
When using the 'counting on' strategy, students put the biggest addend in their head and put up fingers for the amount of the next addend. For example, for '2 + 7 =' students would put 7 in their head and then say 8, 9 while pointing to their two fingers that are up. Students understand that the last number said is the sum of the equation.
When drawing pictures to solve addition equations, students draw simple, clear pictures to represent each addend, then count all the pictures to find the sum. We will continue to practice this strategy independently next week!
- had our school Chinese New Year Dragon parade through our classroom - each students at our school decorated one of the scales.
- began learning hockey stick handling skills in gym
