November 15-17th

It was great to be back together after a restful fall break. Here is a look at a few components of our week-

Literacy:

This week we continued working on the following high frequency words from last week. Students should be able to read these words, say/write them in a complete sentence and spell the words correctly.

 

well

large

must

big

even

such

because

turn

here

why

In our phonics work we focussed on vowel teams and how if two vowels "walk together" the first vowel says its name.

This week we concentrated on /ai/ - train, paint  and /ay/ today, may

Math:

This week we focused on place value : the value of a digit in a number. We also looked at how to represent numbers using base ten blocks and practiced representing the values of numbers. We then applied all of the skills and  understandings we have been working on the last couple of weeks to a counting collections task. Students were challenged to organize their collection of objects into an organized way to count such as by 1's, 2's, 5's or 10's. Then they were to find the actual number and be able to prove their number by explaining how they organized it, determine whether it was even or odd, identify the numbers that were 1 more and 1 less and 10 more and 10 less than the actual number. Their last step was to represent the counting collection number using base ten blocks and a place value chart. Some students even challenged themselves and represented their number in more than one way!