November 2nd - 6th
Hello Room 17! I hope you are having a good weekend and staying warm with this windy, cold weather we are experiencing outside. A reminder that students need to wear their formal uniforms on Monday and Tuesday, as Tuesday is our Remembrance Day virtual assembly because there is no school on Wednesday to commemorate November 11th, Remembrance Day.
In Mathematics, students continue to learn about place value and the value assigned to each number whether it be in the ones place or tens place. We have also been looking at patterns found in numbers whenever we add 5 or 10 to the number when counting. Students have also been given more opportunities to work on open ended word problems and being able to use pictures, number sentences and word sentences to show their understanding in a variety of ways.
In Writing, we have continued to focus on using Triple Scoop words and trying to add them into our sentences to make our writing more descriptive overall. Students were given a number of robot pictures to choose from and then had to use only their words to describe their robot and the rest of the class had to guess which one was theirs.
In Science, we explored the world of slugs and snails and their importance in the food chain for many animals and insects. The students were also given an opportunity to explore and research on another insect on the computers. If you are reading this blog entry, I will be giving away pencils to those students who can come to me, either on Monday or Tuesday and tell me the three names of the various body parts that an insect has. It gave the students a chance to research and find out about their lifespan, predators and the habitat in which they live in.
In Social Studies, we are looking at creating Welcome to Iqaluit posters and what we kind of activities we can do there in the summer and also winter months. The students learned that they can kayak, hike, fish and try some delicious Inuit foods in the summer months and build an igloo, snowmobiling, cross country skiing, dogsledding or watching the Northern Lights dance across the sky.
Enjoy the rest of your Sunday and see you in formal uniforms tomorrow morning!