Dear Parents, 

We will be videotaping our video holiday performance on Thursday, December 9th. This performance is called the Tree in Celebrations. We are asking students to dress in a festive way for the video. Any of these options are fine:

-any festive holiday wear

-any clothing your child associates with a celebration

-plain red, green, black or white shirt (if the shirt has a picture on it we can just turn it around).

Please let me know if you have any questions about this. 

Thank you so much for your support.

Jennifer Serra 

Music Teacher

Ramsay School 

November 29 - Dec 3rd

Here is an overview of some of the learning intentions that we worked through this week:

Math - grade 1 : building our number sense of numbers from 1-20

• Model and describe numbers and quantities to 20, concretely and pictorially.

• Construct a set equal to a given set that contains to 20 objects and compare sets using comparative language.

Grade 2 - skip counting, using skip counting to count/organize counting collections and to solve word problems. 

• Say the number sequence 0 to 100 forward and backward by 2’s , 5’s and 10’s. 

• Represent and describe numbers to 100 concretely, pictorially and symbolically 

Literacy

Guided Reading - we continued our focus on using decodable books, applying our awareness of word families and blends to decode books and work through word work.

This week we continued on with our work around developing our comprehension strategy of asking questions to clarify and extend our understanding of text.  We focussed on the beautiful Metis tale, The Giving Tree, retold by Leah Dorion. 

We worked on developing questions before, during and after we read the text to deepen our understanding of the story as well as to further pursue new questions and understandings when we revisited this book in an online reading and when listening an interview with the author. Revisiting texts and stories multiple times is a valuable and beneficial way for students to deepen their understanding and connections. This story also was a springboard for discussions around wants and needs, giving and receiving as well as a provocation for using pastels to create our own giving trees. (more pictures to come).

Science  - Challenge: make a creation that uses a magnet to move, pull or pick up something else based on what you know about magnetism. .

Students were very engaged making a creation out of recycled materials and magnets. There were many different creations ranging from game boards to fishing rods, mazes, pull type toys, bridges and mini cities with characters and cars. 

*Just a reminder on Monday, our class will be working with Clay for Kids to create a fused glass creation.