Week 6: Creative Patterns, Data Analysis, and Global Traditions: A Peek into Division 11’s Learning Adventures
Dear Division 11 Families,
In art, our students have been learning about warm and cool colors. We connected this knowledge to math by creating two watercolor paintings using patterns—one with warm colors and the other with cool colors. We then explored weaving, learning about its long and rich history and how it serves as an example of patterns in real life. Using the two paintings, we weaved them together to create a unique piece of art. The students really enjoyed the calming process of weaving and were excited about the final product.
In math, we are wrapping up our data analysis unit. The students have created their “Book of Graphs” and have gone through the following process independently:
- Coming up with a survey question
- Collecting data using a tally chart
- Transferring their data into a bar graph or pictograph
- Interpreting the data and sharing what they learned.
In Social Studies, we began exploring wedding traditions from around the world. Each student chose a country and received a puzzle piece with brief information about that culture’s wedding tradition. They then interviewed classmates to see if their partner and their culture had something in common. If they found a similarity, their puzzle pieces fit together. We will continue with this topic, focusing on one of the big ideas: people from diverse cultures and societies share some common experiences and aspects of life.
I hope you were able to stay dry this weekend. Thank you, and have a restful remainder of your weekend!
Ms. Kim
Chunk Spelling
Students were introduced to Chunk Spelling to solidify their understanding of beginning letter sounds, blends, and digraphs. They are given a sound board, a word family (we started with “at”) and we use this to create words.
For example:
- Beginning consonants – bat, cat, fat, hat, mat, pat, rat, sat, vat
- Beginning blends – brat, flat, scat, spat
- Beginning digraphs – chat, that, what
They were also encouraged to come up with other words that have “at” in them. For example: pattern, attitude, gratitude, attention, caterpillar
We are mathematicians.
We reviewed decreasing patterns and practiced number patterns like counting by 2s, 5s, 10s, and 100s.
Ways to support at home: Practice skip counting. As we will be moving on to number sense and place value, any practice at home will help them in their learning at school. For grade 3s, they will need to know how to skip count starting from any number up to 1000.
We are scientists.
We watched Science for Kids: Exploring Matter and Its Properties and added another page in our Matter books.
Applied Design, Skills, and Technologies
Thank you so much for helping your child memorize their username, email address, and password. It made a difference when we logged in on Friday!
Upcoming is our District Digital Citizenship Week where we will be introducing lessons on the following:
Reminders
- Friday, October 25 is Pro-D day; students do not attend
We appreciate your continued support.
Grateful for you, Ms. Chan