This week we started new literacy centers. We continued to have a listening to reading center, a writing center and a Raz-Kids center, but we added two new centers. The first one is to help us practice our words of the week, it is called Spelling Battleship. Each student must pick 5 words of the week and put them on their battleship board. They are then trying to find and sink their friends words. We also added a making words center, where students are given 5 different mystery words to choose from. They then have to see how many 2-letter, 3-letter,4-letter, 5-letter and 6-letter words they can find, as well as trying to find the mystery word that is made up of all the letters.
In writing this week we read the story "The Tiny Seed" by Eric Carle. We then worked together to retell the story and then students went and retold the story in their own words.
In math this week we continued to practice our doubles, addition and subtraction skills through math centers. We also had a new problem to solve this week: "There are 19 bears at the zoo. Some are brown and some are black. How many of each colour could there be? Show as many different answers as you can."
We had our second session of in-line skating this week. It is definitely a tricky skill to learn but we are all trying our best and not giving up! We do not have any in-line sessions next week, but have two the following week on Tuesday May 28th and Thursday May 30th.
In science this week each student was given a bean seed to put in a plastic bag and observe grow. For this experiment students were give the choice as to what they wanted to give their seed. Some chose to have all three things they need: soil, water and light. Other students choose to take one to two of those things away to help us answer the question: "Will the seed still be able to grow?". Some students choose to do just water and light, others chose to do just light, and another couple students decided to do soil, water and no light. Every bean will also have air, another important part of plant growing. On Wednesday, a few days after "planting" our seeds we did an observation in our book of what our seed looks like on day 3 of our experiment. We will be documenting our observations throughout this experiment.
We also continued with our animal research that we began at the zoo. Students were put into groups based off of the animal they are researching and they were able to talk as a group to discuss what they had learned so far. They also got to go on the resource "PebbleGo" to help them find out more about their animals. They added this information to their note taking sheet from the zoo. We also started to record our information into our visual journals. We made our first page "Appearance" where we drew and labelled a diagram of our animal and then wrote a description of what it looks like. It's almost like we are creating our very own non fiction book about our animals in our visual journals!
Here is the link for the site PebbleGo
https://www.pebblego.com/choose
Reminders:
Friday May 17th is a PD Day. No School
Monday May 20th is Victoria Day. No School
Wednesday May 22nd is Fun Lunch
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