Happy 2018 and welcome back to school! Students were excited to see each other and share their winter break adventures. It sounds like everyone managed to have fun despite the cold weather.
We jumped right back into routine this week. Students:
- wrote a personal narrative using the sentence stem, "On winter break..."
- completed an illustration for the story "The Secret World of Og" based on a descriptive paragraph on the setting.
- completed their January calendar to learn about all the important dates this month.
- applied their understanding of repeating patterns to discover how many of each shape (snowflake, snowman, mitten) will be on our Opening Circle calendar.
- developed their number sense of numbers 0 to 100 by observing and communicating patterns on the hundred's board.
- learned a new math game called Hundreds Board Connect 4. Students apply concepts such as 1 more, 1 less, 10 more and 10 less and well strategies such as skip counting, counting on and counting back to connect four numbers in a row. You can play this at home with an empty 10x10 grid, ask your child how.
- represented and described the number ten in as many ways they could think using pictures, symbols and words in "Show Me Ten".
- contributed their findings to create a whole class poster to reference in future activities.
- used watercolor pencils to complete their research artwork on animal survival in winter.
In your child's mail-folder this week, please find:
- January Scholastic orders. These are due back on Friday, January 19th, 2018.
- Child Safe Canada pamphlets for Winter/Spring course offerings.
- MAPSS AGM notice for oldest/only students.
Please see the additional blog note about the Planning for Next Year Survey.
Have a wonderful weekend everyone!
Ms. Thomas
