April 25 - 29th 

Wow! Where did the month of April go? We have had a great deal of fun exploring different topics of learning and new ways to express ourselves and our learning. 

Here is a snapshot of our week:

I can create a non-fiction text with a beginning, middle and conclusion. I can edit my work for spelling and punctuation. 

After completing our pollinator research last week, our next steps were to take our jot notes and turn them into sentences. Students worked on developing complete sentences and joining ideas. We also focussed on making sure our sentences begin with a capitalized letter and include ending punctuation. 

I can use a variety of comprehension strategies to build meaning of unfamiliar words. 

We have continued to focus on the Fab 4 reading strategies in our literacy work and the past two weeks we have focussed on clarifying. Through direct teaching and modelling, students have become more familiar with strategies that good readers use  while reading. Students were challenged to identify the strategies they were using to identify tricky words and figure out their meaning. 

I can show care for myself and my community. I can work well with others. 

We were fortunate that the spring weather dried up the snow from last week and we headed out to clean up our the upper community field and garden area. Students were surprised and disappointed at the amount of garbage that we found. We spent time talking about the impact of waste on our environment and how it affects not only the land but those who inhabit the land. We discussed how we can continue to be ambassadors of our land, and water to help make a difference. 




I can show my understanding of addition of numbers up to 20. 

My math group enjoyed the story One is a Snail, 10 is a Crab by April and Jeff Sayre as a jumping off point to provide us with the opportunity to build numbers using the feet of the creatures from the book. Students were up to the challenge and demonstrated how they could build numbers in many different ways. These tasks showed students that they could be flexible, problem solvers and show their thinking in different ways.



Here are a couple photos of our Inuit landscape art created and discussed a number of weeks ago. 





 

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