November 25th, 2021

Hello families,

This week we continued to practice carrying place value and created some cool art to represent a number of our choice.

As we practice skip counting and repeated addition we explored looking at analog clocks. Students were able to find the pattern by counting by 5s to calculate the minutes, and practice counting on when the minutes were not a multiple of 5.  Take a look at the clocks we made!

In writing we explored list making using bullet points and commas as well as started a to think about where we can get ideas from in our writing. Many ideas come from our memory, facts we know, and our imagination.

Within our novel study of Finders Keepers we examined a excerpt from a Pikani story and practiced identifying some key words that help contribute to the story. We then created some "Blackout Poetry" to represent these words in a powerful way.

We have been studying Norval Morrisseau, a Canadian Indigenous artist. As a class we discussed how his work has bright colours, no white spaces, curved and straight lines, and lots of detail. We watched a short biography and pulled out some important information about Morrisseau using the 4 "Ws" Who, When, Where, and What. Students then took an example of his work and practiced his style.

At the end of the week students began to practice sketching their "Simile Animal" in Morrissea's style.  

In the classroom we have been adding our ancestry onto the world map. Students were tasked with asking at home where their ancestors originated from. It is very nice to see our classroom has lots of diverse origins around the world!

Have a wonderful weekend,

Miss. Greenhall

Important Dates

Thursday November 25  - 4:00-7:40 School Conferences 

Friday November 26 - 8:00-1:00  School Conferences

November 28- Book Fair closes 

December 2 – Holiday Character Day 

December 16 – Ugly Sweater Day

December 17 – PJ Day – Last day of classes before the break 

Dear families,

The Virtual Book Fair ends on Sunday, November 28th

Experience the joy of a Book Fair online by joining us at our Virtual Family Event! Click the link below:

https://virtualbookfairs.scholastic.ca/pages/5163640

Remember, all purchases benefit our school and earn Rewards that can be redeemed for books and Education Resources for our school’s classrooms and library.

Thank you for participating in our Scholastic Virtual Book Fair!

Happy reading!