RamsayRowland

  March 13-17th This was another awesome week of discovery, sharing, learning and fun!  Here is a glimpse into our week - Phonics -  This week we worked on the long /i/ sound. Students learned the silent/magic e tells the a to say its long sound/name in words such as bike, kite, side.  This week we focussed on the following high frequency words - two, more, write, go, see. I can understand the process of subtraction involves finding the difference or taking away.   I can use pictures to demonstrate subtraction equations and to solve subtraction equations.    This week we started a closer look at the process of subtraction by understanding that it involves taking away from the largest number of objects in a subtraction scenario. Students used the beaded number line and drawing pictures to form an understanding of this process.  Science -  This week we continued our focus on building things and centered our focus on Towers. We determined what we already knew about towers, what we wondere

 March 6-10th  This week we had our sharing assembly. All students did an amazing job and should be very proud of themselves. Thank you to those parents who were able to attend.  The themes of our work centered around friendship, belonging and ways we can make Ramsay school community a welcoming place that includes everyone. Our class read the book, Kindness is My Superpower  by Alicia Ortega. This inspired us to think of ways we make the world a better place as we each picked a superpower that we have. We discovered by using these superpowers and acts of kindness we all can be real superheroes.  I have attached our work to our google classroom - please sign in to view.    Science - We have been looking at structures, identifying what makes a structure, the difference between man made and structures made in nature. We also have been looking at ways structures are put together and materials that are used to build structures. We have examined how how we can make structures stronger by us

  February 27 - March 3 We had a busy week prepping for our assembly next week but here are a few things we worked on this week.  I can use skip counting to count a collection of objects. I can organize a collection and determine the number.  This week we continued to work on our awareness and understanding of skip counting and how it can apply to our work with counting collections. Students practiced skip counting by 2's, 5's, and 10's starting at different places from 0-100. We then applied this awareness to counting larger collections of objects and students were able to see that organizing objects into groups helps with the efficiency of counting.  I can understand the process of addition involves joining or adding numbers together to find the sum.  I can use a number line to demonstrate addition equations and to solve addition equations.  This week we used another tool to continue to develop our fluency and understanding of the process of addition. Students worked on m