Month: November 2019

The final week of November flew by!  We are coming to the end of Term 1, and are working on finishing up many of the projects we have started. In French, we began a new unit on family vocabulary, practicing using inferencing skills and searching for vocabulary words to help us understand family relationships of […]

This week, we practiced many skills: In French, we practiced pronouncing French letters and letter sounds, spelling out our vocabulary words to one another. In Math, we tried out an Esti-Mystery challenge, to review skip counting/multiples, and our estimation skills.  We practiced rounding numbers to the nearest tens, hundreds, thousands, and ten thousands, and made […]

Though short, this was a busy week! In Math, we worked on understanding and manipulating large numbers based on data from the FIFA Women’s World Cup.  We worked in teams again, writing on vertical non-permanent surfaces of windows and white boards, with the goal of communicating our math thinking more clearly.  We had team speakers, […]

Hello families! This week we  continued work on our lived-experience stories, and learned about the value of using descriptive language to create imagery.  We practiced by describing a plain old soda cracker with as many adjectives and comparisons (similes and metaphors) as we could. The list that we created together was so impressive that I […]

We kicked off this week with some story work.  Drop Everything And Read was on Monday morning, (http://www.dropeverythingandread.com/nationaldearday.html) and our House Teams read up a storm.  We began a story workshop based off lived-experience stories we shared orally last week.  We will be work-shopping these stories over the next week or so. In French, we […]