Tuesday, September 23, 2014

Terrific Tuesday!

***Casual Day tomorrow***

*** On Friday we will be creating posters about Japan and students are asked to bring in 2 pictures of:

Food

                                                Shelter

                                                Clothing

                                                Transportation

So each student will need 8 pictures all together.

Students can also bring in 2 other pictures related to Japan but they need at least 8 from the above list.

Please make sure these pictures are not too large because we want to try and fit them on two pieces of construction paper.  ***

                                   

We began the day having art with Mr. Monaghan and then physical education with Ms. Lovan.

Afterwards we had our Sorting and Patterning Test. I will return them tomorrow.  

We then continued our inquiry into Venice. We imagined that we were visiting Venice and we wrote a postcard to someone living in Mississauga, letting them know about all our experiences; we focused on three differences between Venice and Mississauga that we learned yesterday.

Mme. Stella was away today, so after first recess and lunch we worked on a Sorting and Patterning post assessment and then a pre assessment for our next math unit, Number Relationships. We then continued finishing up our postcards.

During Writing, we each took what we learned from yesterday about brainstorming and created our own about everything that we could remember learning in our unit of inquiry so far.

After second recess and lunch we began our launch into the Daily 5. When reading a book, it is important first to know how to read a book. We learned that the three ways are:

1. Read the pictures: we read the story by looking at the pictures and describing everything that we see. We answered who, what, where, when, why and how when looking at the pictures. For example, we looked at facial expressions and tried to figure out why certain characters were happy or sad. 

2. Read the words: we read the story using words, and this way we were able to better understand what was happening in the pictures as well as the story. We learned that the pictures and words work together to create a deeper understanding of what is happening in the book.  Sometimes what we see in the pictures is not told in words and sometimes when reading words, the pictures may not always match.

3. Retell the story: We will work on this area next time we have Daily 5. Here it will be modeled for students how to retell a story by going through each page and using the pictures and what we remember from the story.

Homework:

1.     A duo tang was sent home today with some of the student’s work and a rubric with each one. Please sign the rubric and bring everything back tomorrow.

2.     After school forms

3.     Casual Day tomorrow

4.     Fall Fair Thursday

5.     Bring in pictures of Japan for Friday

6.     Lunch Form due Friday