Hi there! I hope you are having a fabulous fall weekend with your family. Hard to believe that next Friday marks the beginning of October already!
This week the students took part in the Terry Fox Run on Thursday and ran or walked consecutively for about half an hour around the school playground area. Thank you to all those families who were able to bring in a donation that goes directly to the Terry Fox Foundation and their goal of finding a cure for cancer.
In writing, we continue to explore the elements of a complete sentence and what a noun, verb, adjective are within the sentence. We are looking to extend and add greater description to our sentences in order to help our reader create a clear picture in their mind of what the students are writing about. We also have discussed the importance of starting our sentences with capital letters and also using appropriate punctuation to end our sentences, either a period, exclamation mark or question mark.
In Mathematics, the students continue to work on number sense and being able to represent numbers using expanded notation, base ten blocks and place value charts. The students have also been exploring various strategies they can use in order to find the sum in addition questions and the differences in a subtraction sentence.
In Social Studies, we were fortunate enough to bring in Teacher's Pet to provide us with a glimpse into the four countries that we will be studying this year - India, Tunisia, Peru and Ukraine. A big thank you to our parent volunteers who helped as "teacher" while introducing each student to the country they were teaching about. The students came away with a new found appreciation of how many differences there are with people in different countries in the world, but also how many similarities there are too.
In Science, we are looking at various classifications of animals and what characteristics each animal has to fit into their category. We looked at skin cover, whether they are vertebrates or invertebrates, habitats, number of legs, warm blooded and cold blooded and examples of each. We will be looking more in depth at each type of animal and creating detailed diagrams of each.
A reminder that we have Picture Day on Monday and the students need to be in their formal uniforms and also that we will be recognizing Orange Shirt Day on Wednesday where we are asking the students to wear an orange shirt to school. Thursday there is no school in recognition of Truth and Reconciliation Day. Enjoy the rest of your weekend and I will see the students on Monday morning.