Hi Families,
A reminder that tomorrow is a P.D. Day - no school for students.
Monday is Thanksgiving - school is closed to staff and students.
See you Tuesday, October 13th!
This week, ask your child about:
- learning, practicing and making real world connections with our new poem about 3D Shapes*
- reviewing/learning new Animated Literacy characters: Nn, Ii, Ww, Vv*
- journal writing at our just right literacy level using the sentence frames:
- "On the weekend..."
- "On Thanksgiving, my family..."
- identifying and labeling a vertice/apex, edge and face on 3D shape models: cone, cylinder and sphere*
- developing our October calendar to practice the number sequence to 31, and identify important events*
- reviewing expectations for Buddy Reading within our Reading Jobs rotating schedule*
- discussing , identifying and recording the different groups we belong to*
- using Google Maps to zoom in and out to see our different communities: world, North America, Canada, Alberta, Calgary, local community
- discussing "What things did the artist use to make this artwork", "If you could touch it, how would the different parts feel?" when viewing a piece of mixed media art
- creating a feeling collage that includes items with different textures*
- completing Montessori nomenclature on the parts of a ladybug
*Materials/visuals or templates for these activities re available on Google Classroom to support home learning routines, or in the case of a prolonged absence from school*
We continued with our buddy inquiry on ladybugs this week, consolidating our data to see what information we could gather.
In September, each student observed and recorded the number of spots on 10 ladybugs:
This week, each student shared their observations, and we recorded them in a very rough bar graph. Ms. Thomas did not take into account many factors when she initially planned the graph:
Finally, we discussed how data needs to be organized when you are sharing it with an audience. So, we used an online program to create a published bar graph:
Student conclusions from our data:
"The most common number of spots on a ladybug is 6 or 7"
"Ladybugs must have at least one spot"
"Ladybugs seem to have spots where the numbers are in the middle - not too high and not too low"
Students generated some personal questions for inquiry about ladybugs that we hope to answer in the upcoming week, including whether or not "The number of spots is the age of the ladybug in years" is true.
Today, students shared their family traditions for Thanksgiving and it sounds like you all have a wonderful weekend ahead of you! Enjoy your time with family! See you on Tuesday!
Ms. Thomas
