This week in writing we continued our work on character and started creating our very own characters. We brainstormed ideas about what our characters will look like and act like. Then we wrote a character description describing our characters. We discussed adding as much detail to our writing as possible to help the reader picture the character.
We also continued our learning through literacy and math centers.
Our words of the week this week were: did, no, out, this
Our words of the week next week are: down, off, over, up
We were given another 6 letter mystery word to solve in making words. We practiced together making 2 letter, 3 letter, 4 letter, and 5 letter words. We also discovered that the mystery word was SPENDS.
In science this week we discussed our five senses and what we see, hear, smell, taste and feel during the winter season. In our visual journals we wrote, drew pictures and labelled the different things our senses experience in winter time.
We also learned about Chinese New Year. We watched a video, which taught us about the legends and traditions of Chinese New Year. We also read a story and got to see some different Chinese artifacts, such as lanterns, fans and chopsticks. We discussed how our traditions are different and similar to the Chinese traditions. We also got to make a dragon mask in art.
It was Tech Day on Wednesday! We got to go on the computers with our grade 2 buddy class. We read and explored with Raz-kids. We are really enjoying Raz-Kids and are looking forward to using it in literacy centers!
In art this week we designed our back cover for the yearbook contest. Next week all the students' art work will be put up and we will get to vote for which one we want for the front and back cover. We are designing for the back cover and everyone worked really hard on their designs!
We continued our read aloud of "Stanley in Space". We are listening to the story and creating a storyboard as we listen. For each chapter we draw a picture and write a sentence telling what happened in the chapter. The story is getting exciting and we are really enjoying reading another Flat Stanley story!
Reminders:
If you have not already, please fill in, sign and return field trip forms by Tuesday February 12th.
Swimming forms were sent home today. We are still looking for volunteers to help in the change rooms, especially male volunteers. If you have your CBE police clearance and are available to volunteer please email me and I will send home a volunteer form. There were two forms sent home, please make sure you fill in and send back both the Acknowledgment of Risk and the swimming ability form. Swimming forms are due back Wednesday February 13th.
Thursday February 14th and Friday February 15th is Teacher's Convention, No School
Monday February 18th is Family Day-No School
Thursday February 21st is our field trip to Fort Calgary
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