Scientists in School, Student Activity Fees and Our week

Scientists in School will be coming into our class on Friday, October 20th for the entire morning. Students will be learning all about soil. We are looking for 5 parent volunteers to help run the stations. Please sign the form that came home if you are able to volunteer for the workshop.

A friendly reminder to pay the student activity fees. Not only do the fees cover the agenda costs, but they also cover guest speakers, workshops, and field trips.

Language

We will begin our second writing assignment next week. Students will be describing and comparing two seasons in Ontario. This will be a good opportunity to build vocabulary as well as work on using transition words as we compare seasons. Students will be setting their goals to improve their writing prior to beginning their task.

Today we read a story and took time to infer the character traits of the main character while working in groups. Students are beginning to use information and details from the text to support their ideas and answers.

Math

Patterning! We are working on identifying patterning rules in growing and shrinking numeric patterns.

Sample question:

----, ------,  78, 72, 66, -------, ----

What is the pattern rule. What are the missing terms?

We also worked on using open number lines to solve subtraction problems with regrouping. Homework will include both addition and subtraction with regrouping so students may develop these necessary skills.

Feedback and Multiple Drafts

In writing and art, students are encouraged to create multiple drafts and receive feedback in order to improve their work. We discussed this video and the importance of feedback this week.

Yours in learning,

Mrs Zulpo