Swimming has come to an end and we were so impressed with how independent the children were with getting changed by themselves in a short period of time. Thank you for your support with practicing at home and giving them opportunities to be independent! In addition, we are grateful for all the volunteers who helped ensure everything went smoothly. We look forward to taking swim classes with our peers again in Grade One! We reflected on our swimming activity and shared about what we learned or what we found easy and hard. We have started making our self reflections visible and looking back at our work to see if we have met the following criteria:
Students have become more observant with noticing numbers around us. We brainstormed ideas of where we see numbers and later progressed to the question, What numbers are special to you? It was interesting hearing about their unique ideas including:
In addition, students demonstrated their understanding of creating different combinations of numbers through the problem: In your tank, there are 10 fish and snails altogether. How many fish do you have? How many snails do you have? Through this question, students demonstrated the following outcomes:
Spring is fast approaching and this is a friendly reminder that parent conferences take place on Thursday, March 23rd. Registration will take place online and the system goes live on Saturday. We look forward to talking about your child’s progress and sharing some of their work samples with you. We encourage you to bring your child along as they are eager to share their work with you!
The past couple weeks, we have been reading and focusing on different versions of four fairytales:
With the stories being reread, students are building understanding of the characters, setting and sequencing of each story. Students will eventually retell their own version of one fairy tale. Leading up to this, students have been given the opportunity to retell and think about the stories through some new center activities, such as building an element from a story with found objects (bridge, house, gingerbread) and using picture cards to sequence and retell the story to a partner. Along with the centers, students drew and wrote about favourite parts and personal connections to the stories. "What does the story remind you of?" We had Ms. R come visit and read “The Three Little Pigs” and retold the story using loose parts. Students listened and read along the repeated phrases in the story. After Ms. Riffel retold the story with loose parts, students were given the opportunity to do the same with a partner. Students took turns and were successful in making sure they included certain elements in their story: 3 Little Pigs, Wolf and 3 Houses. Students were engaged and helped each other out with the repetitive phrases in the story: “little pig, little pig, let me come in!” After being familiar with all 4 fairy tales, students were given the opportunity to choose their favourite one. In their journals, students were given the choice to draw and write about their favourite part of the story they chose, or the characters and setting. Students were then asked to record or orally communicate the reason they chose the specific fairy tale.
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May 2017
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