Monday, January 27 - Day 87

Hello Families!  Here's a few snippets from our day . . .

In math, grade one students worked on learning centers practicing skills in sorting by attributes, creating composite shapes, and working on one-to-one correspondence (playing a board game).  Grade two students worked on developing mental math strategies for adding and subtracting.  We have been looking at how to use counting backwards for subtraction and counting on for both subtraction and addition.

We will soon be celebrating the hundredth day of school - just a heads up that students will be asked to bring in a collection of 100 items (for example, 100 beads, or 100 paper clips).  More information will come home in your child's backpack early next week.

In literacy we worked on identifying our sight words in group generated sentences, focused on correct letter formation and basic sentence structure, and worked on our stories in story workshop.  We have been putting an emphasis on ensuring our stories have a character, a setting, and at least one event.  Not all of our stories are problem stories - ask your child the difference between climbing and walking stories.

In science we have been working on firming up our ideas for our upcoming animation residency.  We will be animating how Canadian animals have adapted to stay warm in the winter.  If you are interested in coming in and volunteering for this residency, please send me an email.  We will have two half-days with PAW.