Dear Families of Div. 16,

As a class community, Division 16 has engaged in a daily Calendar routine. Each child is responsible for being the leader of this learning activity. There are many Math concepts and life skills that are included as part of the daily calendar routine.  These activities help students practice every day and build their number sense. They apply the daily number into different formats and math applications. We have also been learning to count by 2’s, 5’s and 10’s to lead us to our 100th day of school, which occurred this week. In addition, Calendar provides opportunities for students to practice important skills such as self-regulation, oral language, presenting to their peers and leadership skills. For the last term, the Calendar will be done independently in a group of two.

Big Idea: Collaborative daily routines as a class community provides structure, enhances academic and social skills and increases a sense of belonging for each member of the community.

First Peoples Principles of Learning:

  • Leaning is holistic, reflexive, reflective, experiential, and relational.

Learning Involved:

  • Strengthens overall number sense
  • Patterning, Counting, Tallying (by 5’s and 10’s), Counting in French to 10
  • Skip counting by 2’s, 5’s, and 10’s
  • Graphing and analyzing the Weather, Days in School, Tooth losses and other such as for Lunar New Year
  • Months of the year, days of the week, number of days at school
  • Concepts of yesterday, today, and tomorrow
  • Promotes self-esteem by presenting what you are “good at” at the end of each Calendar routine
  • Promotes use of memory by asking students to remember what other students have said they are good at
  • Provides students with opportunities to practice leadership and presentation/public speaking skills
  • Enhances self-regulation skills to be an attentive listener when being an active audience member

Core Competency: Communication – Collaborating

  • Profile 4: I can confidently interact and build relationships with other group members to further shared goals.