October 13th - 16th

Already the middle of October! How time flies so quickly and now we have also had the chance to experience some wonderful October snow as well! Just a reminder that students should be coming to school appropriately dressed for being outdoors with boots, mitts, snow pants, warm jackets and hats to keep them warm. We have been doing our Physical Education classes outside and we want everyone to be well prepared to go outside and not be cold during these times and also during our movement break times. 

In Writing, we have been working on creating complete sentences that include upper case letters to begin the sentence, extra details in the sentence to make it more interesting for the reader and punctuation at the end of the words too. We have been exploring the Best Part of Me this week and trying to explain, in our own words, why it is the best part of ourselves. After creating their rough copy in our writing books, we have been typing out our good copies in Google Drive as a way to display our final written product. Students can also access their Google Drive accounts at home as well!  

In Mathematics, we have been looking at creating our own word problems, both in addition and subtraction. The students have been discussing appropriate vocabulary for addition or for subtraction that helps give clues as to what has to be done in order to find the answer to the question.  We have also talked about using pictures, number sentences and word sentences when working on solving a problem.  

In Social Studies, we continue to explore the geographical regions we will be looking at - the Arctic region in the northern part of Canada, the Atlantic region in eastern Canada and the Prairie region which is found in the provinces of Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta.  We will next be looking at the climate of each region and if we were to travel there, what types of articles of clothing would we make sure to bring with us.

In Science, we have looked at spiders and compared them to insects to see the differences we can see between them.  Students have also worked on writing as many facts as they can about spiders and how instrumental they are to us keep the insect population down. As a few students wrote, "without spiders, the insects would rule our world!"

In Art, we are creating a colourful project for our Acorn Art fundraiser and it will be coming home in the next week or so for you to see!

Enjoy the rest of your weekend and remember to always wash your masks and try to have an extra one in your child's backpack just in case one gets lost along the way to school!  Thank you!