Our last week of September has been a busy one. Here is what we have been working on:
In Language Arts, students looked at a variety of pictures to decide how improving their drawing could help them do a better job in their journal work. They then attempted to include details in their journal pictures in order to help tell the story of their weekend. Students are in various stages of adding print to their work. Some are labeling and adding a few letters while others are attempting to write a complete sentence.
We have continued to observe the changes in trees during the fall season. We got outside to complete a See, Think, Wonder page in our visual journals. Recorded things we saw, what it makes us think about and what I now wonder.
In Math, we continued to work on printing and representing the numbers, but we were most excited to explore sorting and measuring with our fall leaves. We sorted our leaves by colour, size, shape, and texture. Students then used their leaves to measure things in the classroom and record their work in their notebook.
We read the story "Leaf Man" by Lois Ehlert and were inspired to create our own leaf creatures. They look so amazing. We will be writing about them next week.
Orange Shirt Day was an important part of our week. We read a couple of stories and watched a video about the event. We used this as a way to help students build empathy for others and to recognize the importance of valuing the differences of First Nations' culture. Thank you for having your child participate.
