September 28th - October 2nd

Hello to everyone and happy weekend! I hope you are all out and able to enjoy some wonderful fall weather as the leaves continue to fall off the trees with many colours! 

This week saw the students continue to work on completing our 6 senses of fall writing pieces and going back and editing for word choice, spelling and punctuation.  We will continue to work on adding more details to our sentences and trying to use more triple scoop adjectives to make our writing create vivid pictures for our readers.

In Math, we are looking at patterns, the various attributes that make up our patterns and how to explain the pattern rule to help someone else make our pattern. We continue to explore ways to represent numbers such as pictures, tally marks, number sentences and also base ten blocks. The students have been given open ended word problems to make them think about how to explain their answers through pictures, number sentences and word sentences.

In Science, we have looked and drawn out diagrams of ants and also beginning to look at the characteristics of spiders. The students finished the week by creating butterflies using pastels and the symmetry, and patterns that can be found in their wings to protect them from predators.

In Social Studies, we are starting to look at the physical geography of each of the communities we study and how that affects people who live there. What can they grow, how does it affect the interests and jobs of people who live in the communities as well.

I hope you enjoy your Sunday and see everyone in their formal uniforms tomorrow morning.  Remember that there is no school on Friday this week because it is a teacher Professional Development day.