We celebrated Tunisia by completing a number of different activities and enjoying some food from the culture. The students learned how to weave, created bean mosaics, played a game called Mancala and read more books about the country.
The students were able to try dates, couscous, baklava and flat bread brushed with olive oil.
In Language Arts this week, we continued working through our fairy tale story writing project. As a class we brainstormed "juicy words" and used these to write descriptive paragraphs to describe the settings for a villain and hero of our class fairy tale story. As we finish modelling good writing for each part of a fairy tale, the students will have the chance to write their own stories.
We also started a new spelling program called "Words Their Way". We will be using this for the remainder of the school year. The students have been divided into groups and will be working through different spelling and phonetic rules. The students get their words each Monday. These words are then cut and sorted and the students complete a different activity each day of the week. On Friday, the students are tested on ten of their words. Two new words that following the spelling pattern they have been working on, are also added to their test. Please sign these tests and send them back to school on the following Monday. We have also subscribed to spelling city, so your child can play all of the games now. The link to spelling city is on the side column of our blog. Please ask your child to show you this site.
In Math, we have been working on mental math strategies. This week we worked through "making ten". For example, if the addition equation is 8+5, the students have been taught to think of this as 10 +3 (making the 8 a 10 by adding 2 from the 5). This will help them when they are trying to add larger numbers mentally. For example, for the questions 47 + 8, the students would add 50 + 5 in their head (changing the 47 to 50 by adding 3 from the 8). The students also used the "making doubles" method to add numbers together mentally. For example 9+8 = 8+8+1 and 7+6 = 7+7-1.
We have also been working on some math games to review regrouping 3 digit addition and subtraction questions. The students will have the opportunity to play with you at Student Led Conferences.
Here are the super readers for the week! Way to go!
In gym this week the kids played a game called Q-Tip ball. They had a lot of fun and worked on strengthening their hand eye coordination!
Congratulations to our new Student of the Week!
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