Welcome to our blog and thank you for taking the time to read today's post. I will update the blog every Friday to let you know what we are learning about in our class. My intentions are that each post will result in a quick conversation with your child about the things they are learning about. Please bookmark this website, so that you do not have remember the URL.
In room 231 this week we covered the following topics:
LA- Daily 5. The students were introduced to a new Daily 5 choice called Word Work. Ask your child about concept cards and how they work. We also started a short stories unit where we looked at Plot. What are the important parts of a story? (Exposition, Conflict, Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action, Resolution). Our goal is to improve the middle of our stories.
Socials Studies/Art- we continued with our Capturing Compassion project. Karin McKinnon (a professional photographer) spent some more time with us this week helping us understanding how we can capture compassion through pictures. Our next steps will be to write a song that connects to our pictures and compassion. On Thursday we will be going on a field trip to a recording studio in Cumberland!
Important reminder- field trip forms went home today. Please bring them back by Tuesday.
Gym- In gym we covered the following games: capture the flag dodge ball and cricket ball.
Science- Energy Sources presentations. The students presented to each other and a group of primary students about the advantages and disadvantages of a source of energy that they researched. Congratulations to team "Geothermal" who won the vote! For the upcoming month we will be exploring the Scientific method.
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French- J'aime, J'adore Je deteste, Je n'aime pas- we presented our likes and dislike posters.
Thanks for reading today's blog and having a awesome weekend.
Mr. Tobacca
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