Friday Blog

Safety Week:
Students practiced many safety drills this week. We had a fire drill, lockdown drill and evacuation drill. They understood the serious nature of practicing for these events and did a great job.

Rocks and Minerals:
Using websites and information books, students researched information about the 3 types of rocks and the rock cycle. They used a template to take notes and will continue next week on presentations based on this information.

Literacy:
Students have been keeping record of their daily reading and were able to exchange their books on Thursday at the Learning Commons. In poetry, they have been developing their vocabulary and exploring language. We looked at interesting photographs and brainstormed descriptive words using our senses. Using these words, they formed a descriptive sentence. Next we explored ourselves, and wrote imaginative poems about our thoughts and feelings.

Math:

Students continued their review of numbers to 1000. We practiced skip counting forwards and backwards, starting from any number. We reviewed our odd and even numbers and noticed patterns when counting by 2s, 3s, 5s and 10s. Students 'exploded' numbers into tens, fives and ones and began adding them together. We explored number lines and methods for adding numbers according to place value on a number line.

Terry Fox Run:

Students are encouraged to bring in toonies for Terry throughout the following week. We will have an assembly and run on Friday. More details with times will follow.