Happy Monday! February 1st

Hello Everyone!

Today began our activities for LITERACY WEEK and we had a great session reading with our grade 2/3 buddy class and Ms. Lee. We also practiced our reader’s theatre scripts, as Division 5 will be doing presentations of these for other classes in the school on Friday. We are doing the stories Stephanie’s Ponytail and Mortimer by Robert Munsch, the story No Bath Tonight by Jane Volen, and The Wizard, the Fairy, and the Magic Chicken by Helen Lester. Students have been asked to begin looking for prop and costume items at home, although we will spend time in class making most of what we need.

Special thank you to Adrian’s mom Jane who came in to talk about her immigration experience with the students today. We also had the opportunity to talk about active listening skills and how to do an interview, as each student was asked to come up with a question to ask. When students do their final project of the year, they will be required to do research that not only involves books and the web, but also relies on an expert! They will need to know how to do an interview and take notes, so we will practice this before then. Anyone have an immigration experience they want to share? Please let me know as it will help us develop these skills!

Students had an opportunity to put new questions on the wonderings board regarding our unit, so that Ms. D would know what everyone is interested in for future classes. There were great questions about how animal migration affects human migration, how genes help us understand the journey of humans in the world, and how the study of past human migration is helpful to us now. Thank you everyone for the deep thinking around these questions! Homework is to finish the immigrant thoughts sheet, putting yourself in the shoes of an immigrant to another country.

We also worked on our Quilt of Belonging squares. Please continue to look for symbols that could be helpful to your quilt square!

Library is tomorrow. Several students have overdue books, so please look at home and bring them in!

If you have any Words Competition entries, please bring them in. We have received an extension to bring them in, as long as they get in before Friday.

Have a great night!