Dear families,<\/p>\n
Xin Nian Kuai Le, Gung Hai Fat Choi, and Happy New Year!\u00a0 However you celebrate I hope the year of the tiger brings you good luck and good health.<\/p>\n
We have had a big week of projects– I am so proud of our students in Division 9.\u00a0 It is really difficult to sustain energy and motivation for big projects and they are doing SO well.<\/p>\n
Fairy Tales:\u00a0 This week the students have applied their knowledge of Setting & character, Beginning, Middle and End. They are writing amazing stories, using creativity, inventive spelling, risk taking and imagination. I am really impressed with their work, and I think we all have the writing bug.<\/p>\n
Growth Mindset: On Monday we used the story of the Three Little Pigs to explore growth and fixed mindset and to build a new home for the pigs with a variety of materials. Students had to design, construct and revise new homes to keep the piggies safe.\u00a0 They tested the strength of their homes by blowing a strong wind at them (with a hair dryer!)\u00a0 We are getting so much better at risk taking and are practising using the vocabulary of growth mindset.\u00a0 Go, Division 9!<\/p>\n
Art: Our big project has been working on our mixed-medium dragons to ring in the Lunar New Year.\u00a0 Our Grade 1 & 2 students have built using papier mache, decorated using 2 mediums of paint, created their own fabric using a batik method and designed their own 3D dragons!\u00a0 Amazing.\u00a0 We have some incredible artists in our class.<\/p>\n
Math: We have learned our double facts and will expand this week to include doubles plus one.\u00a0 Doubles are a great thing to practice at home because they are just one of those things you have to practice and memorize! Math is about a lot more than knowing calculations– but the memorization of basic facts and the tools of addition strategies make the more complex problem solving much easier and faster.<\/p>\n
We have also been doing some problem solving using pattern blocks– trying to build pictures of space objects– rockets, aliens, satelites, etc.- using a limited number of blocks for a challenge.\u00a0 So impressed with our students who use growth mindset to approach these more difficult problems.<\/p>\n
Happy New Year all- and until next week…. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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