Some highlights from last week:
- We each wrote a letter sharing what we loved about grade 5 and what we are looking forward to in grade 6. We also included on thing that Ms. Steeves needs to know about us and how we learn best.
- Name art using oil pastel
- Completed a personal time capsule that we will open on the last day of school
- Discussed the reading comprehension strategies (connect, visualize, question, infer, transform)
- Read The Party and wrote a text-to-self connection we had
- Read A Morning to Polish and Keep and used our creative journals to represent what we were visualizing during the story
- Completed a page in our creative journals highlighting important numbers in our lives
- Began Ugly- Our class read aloud
Looked at the UN Convention on the Rights of a Child (child language) and the rights in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms (fundamental freedoms, mobility rights, democratic rights, legal rights). We used this as we began to decide on what our rights are when we are at school.
- We read our school wide text, Say Something. We then brainstormed the different ways that we can say something.
Today our morning work task was:
Anna counted all of the steps that she walked for a year using her tracker. She walked 2 593 625 steps in 2018. So far in 2019, she has walked 826 448 steps. How many steps has Anna walked so far in the two years?
We reviewed the first two reading comprehension strategies we have talked about- connecting and visualizing, and then learned about a third strategy- questioning. There are two types of questions we can ask:Quick Questions:
• quick to ask
• quick to answer
• answer is right there in the book
• don't help us to understand the story
Deep-Thinking Questions:
• answer is not in the book
• answer comes from you ("I think...", "Maybe...")
• often there is not one right answer
• usually lead to more questions
• help us think beyond the story
We then read the story, Belle's Journey and wrote questions that we had before, during and after the story.
In social, we continued working in small groups to determine the rights that we have in the classroom and began to think about the responsibilities that go with these rights.
We began our math concept cards. These are cards that we will create when new topics are introduced and will be a tool we can refer to throughout the year.
In gym we were learning The Git Up dance which we will all be doing later in the month. In music, we played a name game.
Our number talk today was:
Our day finished with a see, think, wonder task about the following picture.
Reminders:
- Patrol meeting tomorrow for anyone who is interested in being a patrol this year
- ADmazing coupon order forms are coming home. $10.50 from each book sold by individual students will go towards reducing the cost of Outdoor School in the spring
- The assessment of number concepts from grade 5 is coming home for parents to see and sign. This will help Ms. Steeves know what we need to review before moving on to new content.
- Open House- Thursday, September 16 from 4:30 - 6
- Bridlewood Kids forms are coming home with those that expressed interest. Forms are due by Wednesday (program is first come, first served)
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