Welcome to this week's blog. I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving weekend with their families.
This has been a busy week in the classroom. In mathematics we have focused on representing three digit numbers using the standard form, written form, expanded form, Base Ten blocks, addition and subtraction sentences to show our understanding. Students haven also been exploring increasing or growing patterns and the importance of being specific if you are writing out the pattern rules. We have looked at patterns with shapes, numbers and recently, movement patterns that increase. Next week, the students will be sharing their movement patterns that they created with their partners with the rest of the class.
In Writing, we are looking at using our 6 Senses (including feelings) to write about what we might experience on a fall walk. The students were brainstorming the various sights, sounds, activities and feelings we have during this season of autumn.
In Science, the students continued to explore the classifications of animals while looking at the characteristics of reptiles and amphibians. Students also tried their hand at creating What Animal Am I riddles to share with their classmates by giving them clues as to what specific type of animal were they talking about. There were so very interesting creatures shared over the past couple of days!
In Social Studies, students have been taking their understandings of land, the climate and resources founds in the country of India. Students have been creating their own brochures to share their information with others, including the regions found in the country, how long it takes to get there from Calgary and the resources that can be found or grown in the country.
In Art, we are looking at creating art pieces using various 2D shapes and then connected it to math and recording the number of shapes we used and creating a graph based on it.
Have a wonderful long weekend and see everyone back at school on Tuesday morning.