News for September 28, 2018
This week, the class explored place value, learned and wrote about Canadian hero Terry Fox and made sock puppets to create sock puppet plays.
On Thursday, our class participated in the annual Terry Fox Run to raise money for cancer research. Our class counted the money donated by the families of Room 222 and it added up to exactly $50.00! Thank you to all the families for your donations to help the scientists and doctors find new ways to help patients with cancer.
Our word wall words this week were the classic question words: who, what, when, where, why, how. There's also a sneaky pair of homophones in there (where/wear). The class discussed why these words are so important to understanding what we read and for planning what we write. We also talked about the words “why” and “how” and by asking and answering questions using these two words in particular, our brains have to work a bit harder…
The children learned about the concept of a “time capsule” or putting items and information in a box to be opened later, to see what has changed (e.g. height) and what has not changed (e.g. your first name). Our class is almost finished making individual time capsule books, in which every child has recorded his/her name, height, weight, hand size, food size, and wishes for the year. Each student also got a “lucky” nickel and created front and back cover. Our time capsule will be opened at the end of the school year in June 2019.
The children practised skip counting forwards and backwards by 10’s starting at 10 but also at any number in the 100 chart (e.g., 26, 36, 46,…) They practised how to use various strategies to count a large group of items. They know how to skip count by 2’s, 5’s, and 10’s. Using groups of tens one can arrive at the correct answers by filling in the tens place and the ones place in a two-digit number. The children drew as many stars as they could in one minute and counted them up using one of these strategies. (We also added up the totals for each child for a grand total of 633 stars drawn in one minute!) The children also worked in partners to count a “mystery number” of items. They counted the items two different ways and wrote about the strategies they used.
The class reviewed how to identify and write telling and asking sentences and when to use capital letters on words. After hearing a read- aloud book about Terry Fox, the children brainstormed facts about this Canadian hero who challenged himself to run across Canada (over 9,000 kms). Then they wrote about 5 facts they found the most interesting in their journals. Did you know that Terry Fox ran 42 km every day? He ran over 5, 000 kms before he had to stop in Thunder Bay because he got sick again. We also watched a video about Terry. Here is the link:
Creating group plays is a great way for children to create and communicate oral stories by working with others in a group and telling a story in the form of a play. This week, each student created his/her own sock puppet to use in the plays and the groups began to plan their stories.
Books read aloud this week:
My Best Friend Bob by Georgie Ripper
Thing Thing by Cary Fagan
Terry Fox: A Story of Hope by Maxine Trottier
The World That Loved Books by Stephen Parlato
Swimmy by Leo Lionni
2 comments:
Thank you so much for posting the details Ms.Rawlinson.
You are very welcome! I'm always impressed by what the children are able to do each week!😃
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