Wow, I must apologize to all of you. I have not been keeping you up to date with the comings and goings in room 7.
Language Arts
Students have recently completed their Who Would Win books. Using the co-created rubric, each student self assessed their work and commented on their strengths and areas where they would improve next time. The Who Would Win Books will be available to read at the Parent Teacher Interviews as well as the rubric in which students used throughout the project.
Our next project is creating a brochure to inform and teach others about a famous building in one of the 4 countries we are studying. We began this project creating questions to guide our research, we have started to conduct our research, and are beginning to look at how to write detailed sentences with the new information learned. Some students have been brave in sharing their work with the class to receive feedback and improve their sentences. I hope more students will begin to feel comfortable in sharing their work with others, so we can learn along side our peers.
Math
Students continue to work on number sense through problem solving. Specifically we have been looking at rounding and estimation through word problems. Students received multiple problems to choose from and try to solve. We spoke about the importance of organizing our work to make it clear for the reader and to demonstrate what we were thinking. It is always amazing to see the variety of strategies that students come up with to solve the same problem.
As a way to blend our Science inquiry, students are learning how to collect data and analyze that data through bar graphs. This is something we have just started to explore. As your child what graph they are making; features for staff, athletes, important guests or customers.
Science
We are continuing to enhance our understanding of buildings and purposes of buildings. We brainstormed possible features that could be in the future arena, created a survey that students answered as well as parents and will use that information to guide our plans. On Thursday we will be having a guest speaker from Excel Homes to teach us how to draw blueprints. Using this information and new learning, we hope that students will be able to create their own blueprints for their event proposal.
Field Studies
I have been having a couple emails with parents inquiring about our plans for upcoming field studies. At the beginning of each month I hope to let you know of our possible plans. I apologize that I have not done this yet. Here is what we have planned for November.
Thursday Nov. 7 - Guest speaker - Learning how to draw blueprints
Wednesday Nov. 20 - Guest Speaker - Engineer to speak to structure and bridges (in-class volunteers welcome)
Monday Nov. 25 - Field Study tour of Calgary Saddledome (limited to only 5 adults, teacher, student teacher, + 3 parents) If you are interested please contact me ASAP. If I have more than 3 parents who are interested I may have to do a draw for fairness.
At this point we are looking for December opportunities that match our current direction within Science and Social Studies. I will keep you informed if another opportunity arises within the month of December.
Language Arts
Students have recently completed their Who Would Win books. Using the co-created rubric, each student self assessed their work and commented on their strengths and areas where they would improve next time. The Who Would Win Books will be available to read at the Parent Teacher Interviews as well as the rubric in which students used throughout the project.
Our next project is creating a brochure to inform and teach others about a famous building in one of the 4 countries we are studying. We began this project creating questions to guide our research, we have started to conduct our research, and are beginning to look at how to write detailed sentences with the new information learned. Some students have been brave in sharing their work with the class to receive feedback and improve their sentences. I hope more students will begin to feel comfortable in sharing their work with others, so we can learn along side our peers.
Math
Students continue to work on number sense through problem solving. Specifically we have been looking at rounding and estimation through word problems. Students received multiple problems to choose from and try to solve. We spoke about the importance of organizing our work to make it clear for the reader and to demonstrate what we were thinking. It is always amazing to see the variety of strategies that students come up with to solve the same problem.
As a way to blend our Science inquiry, students are learning how to collect data and analyze that data through bar graphs. This is something we have just started to explore. As your child what graph they are making; features for staff, athletes, important guests or customers.
Science
We are continuing to enhance our understanding of buildings and purposes of buildings. We brainstormed possible features that could be in the future arena, created a survey that students answered as well as parents and will use that information to guide our plans. On Thursday we will be having a guest speaker from Excel Homes to teach us how to draw blueprints. Using this information and new learning, we hope that students will be able to create their own blueprints for their event proposal.
Field Studies
I have been having a couple emails with parents inquiring about our plans for upcoming field studies. At the beginning of each month I hope to let you know of our possible plans. I apologize that I have not done this yet. Here is what we have planned for November.
Thursday Nov. 7 - Guest speaker - Learning how to draw blueprints
Wednesday Nov. 20 - Guest Speaker - Engineer to speak to structure and bridges (in-class volunteers welcome)
Monday Nov. 25 - Field Study tour of Calgary Saddledome (limited to only 5 adults, teacher, student teacher, + 3 parents) If you are interested please contact me ASAP. If I have more than 3 parents who are interested I may have to do a draw for fairness.
At this point we are looking for December opportunities that match our current direction within Science and Social Studies. I will keep you informed if another opportunity arises within the month of December.
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