Dear Parents,
Today, we started off with reading a wonderful book that demonstrates wonderful imagery and visualization. It is actually a book for individuals that have a vision impairment as it uses braille-type pictures to represent various colours. The students felt the pages of the book and guessed what the pictures represented based on the textures of the page with their eyes closed and with the verbal description.
After, I reviewed with the Grade 4’s how to explore tenths – how to represent them with numbers in decimal form, equivalent fractions, with pictures, and with words. e.g. 0.3 = 3/10 = three-tenths = three squares coloured out of ten squares.
Then, Grade 5’s worked on: pages 192-193 #2-11
Grade 4’s worked on: pages 198-199 #1-8
It is homework if it was not finished at school.
After, students had snack and then Music and we went out for DPA. Then, Mr. Anderson came in and did a social-emotional lesson with the mood meter and identifying where various feelings lie on the mood meter visual.
After lunch, the Grade 4’s wrote their Math FSA’s on the computer and the Grade 5’s worked on their Daily 5 activities.
After recess, I talked about literature circles and when our first three meetings are going to be:
First meeting: Thursday, February 25th
Second meeting: Tuesday, March 2nd
Third meeting: Thursday, March 4th
Students can find the due dates, pages they need to read, and the written work that they need to do for the meeting date on Microsoft Teams under “Literature Circles Information,” if they forget what they are required to do (they also have a sheet glued to the inside of their literature circles folder as well in hard copy). THEY NEED TO COMPLETE THIS WRITTEN WORK AND READING BEFORE the set meeting date, so they are ready to discuss the chapters with group members and share their written responses.
Just a reminder that tomorrow is Pink Shirt Day to symbolize kindness and there is a spelling test on Thursday. Friday is also a PRO-D Day, so no school for students.
Sincerely,
Ms. Wilks