This week in Div 9
It’s been so delightful to get to see students who have come back this week, and our group feels like it is slowly coming back together. We’ve had another busy week and were happy to see a little sun come out for us towards the end.
We have been studying fairy tales this month. There are so many wonderful fractured fairy tales out there and stories that play with the fairy tale genre. However, many of our students today haven’t heard the classic tales. So we are starting by reading a classic tale before reading an adapted version. This week we read Little Red Riding Hood and then Little Red and the Very Hungry Lion. We are working on retelling, predicting, inferring and visualizing as different comprehension strategies. We also heard the Chinese version called Lon Po Po. You may want to watch/re read online!
Little red and the hungry lion:
Lon po po: https://youtu.be/neYuXfvQbxM
At home, you may want to read other classic fairy tales at home with your child, or find some adaptations from different countries, cultures or writers. There are just so many, but give us a good knowledge of character and setting we can apply to our own writing.
This week we will be doing some growth mindset work with the Three Little Pigs!
In Math we have been working on flip flop facts- first using our Counting Up strategy to find out the the answer to one math sum, then flipping the digits to answer another. I.e., if you know 4 + 5 = 9, then you know 5 + 4 = 9 as well! We have a few more strategies to go through before we move to word problems and subtraction.
In science we have been learning about the moon. We made models of craters and have been talking about how the moon moves around the earth, the earth around the sun. Please keep trying to do the moon homework that was sent home, tracking the phases of the moon leading up to the new moon. To coincide with the new moon and Lunar New Year, we are starting to think about the new year, our traditions and are making a wonderful art project. Just wait and see!
Next week it is also Literacy Week for the Burnaby School District. As such, we will be doing a number of school based literacy activities. We will also be inviting students to come dressed as their favourite book character on Wednesday! Please talk with your child at home about this, whether they would like to dress as their favourite character, and who that character might be!
If you haven’t already, please help your child to get connected to Raz Kids. This is an online platform our school has subscribed to for home reading. Usually we would send levelled books home to read, but because of covid worries, we are using Raz Kids instead. Each child has books picked at their level to read mostly independently. Please try to read one or two daily if possible!
There is so much for us to do and learn, and we definitely keep busy in our class! Thank you for your ongoing support helping your child to come ready to learn and play- and also to be safe in this uncertain time 🙂 Take care and happy weekend!
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