News for April 9

News for April 9

This (short) week, the students continued to learn the lower case cursive letters (q, g, i, u). They finished analyzing the poem, "A Corner of Bread" that they started reading last week.

In math, the grade 2 students spent the week on addition and subtraction strategies. The grade 3 students reviewed the unit on fractions and wrote an end-of-unit test.

The students played a writing game called, "The Three Sentence Challenge" where each child had to write 3 sentences about an object with enough description so that I could guess what the mystery object was.

The class was divided into 5 groups to do research on the different kinds of buildings in a pioneer village. After researching the buildings, they began to construct log cabin style buildings.

We finished the read aloud chapter book, "Pioneer Kids" from the Canadian Flyer series of books. The students learned the song, "When I First Came To This Land" as an extension activity to our pioneer unit.

The children worked very hard to find rhyming words for the word wall word "night". After sorting the words into rhyming and spelling partners (e.g., light and fight) and rhyming but not spelling partners (e.g., kite and polite), we found 28 words that rhyme with "night"!

The students made new paintings for our classroom. The challenge was to create a piece of art using paint and one rectangle of purple paper.

Every week the students work on making structures using playing cards, dominos or lego pieces. This week a few children made a tower of dominos that broke our previous height record... 18 stories high!