Students have been reading one-on-one with Mrs. Cooper for the past few weeks to assess reading. Once all the students have been assessed, I will be reorganize guided reading groups based on student's reading goals to restart guided reading groups after the break. It is very important that your child continues to read at home every day for at least 15 minutes. Ask your child what they are working on to improve their reading. Parents can see a sample of their child's reading on IRIS as well as the goal their child has chosen to work on.
In writing, we completed our rough drafts for our letters about naming the RCMP puppies. We will be working on writing our final copies this coming week.
Word Work - we have a short week this week but we will continue with a new set of words. If your child is home this week, please have them work on these words following our daily schedule of word work. Monday - list and sort and record, Tuesday - alphabetical order and Look Say Cover Write Check, Wednesday - 8 great sentences using the words from the list, Thursday - Practice.
Math: Last week the students continued to practice strategies for dividing and multiplying. Your child should be able to show you at least 2 strategies to solve multiplication and division equations. This week, we will be working on subtracting 2 and 3 digits. This would be a great time to review and practice basic subtraction facts with your child.
Science: We have completed our research and experiments for Hearing and Sound. After the break we will begin learning about Rocks and Minerals. If your child has a collection of rocks or special rock that they would like to share, please put their name on the rock before sending it to school. We will begin exploring what we already know about rocks and what we want to learn. Students will make observations and do experiments to classify rocks and minerals.
Social: The students completed their research on schools in Ukraine, Peru, India and Tunisia. Students also picked one country to compare to schools in Canada using a Venn Diagram. Beginning on Monday, students will research traditional clothing in the 4 countries and will create clothes for paper dolls to represent what they learn.
