Tuesday, April 26, 2018

Good afternoon families of room 18!

Here is a recap of what happened in our class over the past couple of days:

In Language Arts we have been examining trends from our first narrative writing story where we can find improvement moving forward. We will have one more period for students to complete typing their story into their blog and before printing them off for feedback. Yesterday, we looked at alliteration and will be looking to include this figurative language style in our upcoming final narrative story.

Math: We are now finished with our board games! We discussed the problem solving process as this was a big part of identifying and working through issues with our game that needed to be addressed before players could enjoy the game fully. A big point of focus was how students were able to persevere and adjust the design of their games according to peer feedback in such a positive way. We then compared this perseverance to some of the problems we encounter in other areas of our daily classroom life and discussed how we can use this skill in other areas. Today we began to discuss our new unit in math: measurement. We started by discussing where we use measurement in our every day lives and reviewing the 12 hour clock. The grade 4 and 5 curriculum is very different for this unit so there will be much more separation during this work.

Science: I will be looking over our last performance task for science, our greeting cards, and sending these home on Monday for students to show you. We will begin our new unit on Wetlands next week.

Social Studies: Students reviewed the last few topics covered in our Canadian Identify unit and are preparing to record their final thoughts in a vlog tomorrow throughout the day. We are also crafting a class flag and Charter of Rights and Freedoms to examine how our "Room 18" identity differs from the Canadian Identity. We will be debating and voting on which flag best represents our identity next week.

Art: This week we are focusing on the work of Ted Harrison and will be completing a pastel work to display in class tomorrow.

I was away from school this afternoon, please feel free to e-mail me with any questions or concerns.

Reminders:
-Fun Lunch money due May 2nd
-Fun Lunch: May 8th
-Spring picture day: May 2nd