Today was a day of self-reflection and exploration. Students went through their writing books and critically examined all of their writing from the beginning of the year until now. They then found 3 pieces of writing and tagged them as their best, mid, and low and wrote explanations on post-it notes. Students made comments such as, "I could have used more specific words", and "I didn't use capitals in the right places".
The grade 1s have also noticed the work we have been doing around building rooms and purchasing items, and have asked us to help track down a lost gingerbread man by building homes and luring him in. Over the course of the next two weeks, students will go through a number of mathematical tasks as they purchase items for their gingerbread houses and construct them from the ground up. There is a website to guide them, here. There are also tasks that can be completed at home to prepare them for the lessons, if you are looking for additional work for your children.
Tomorrow we will continue examining rocks and planning our gingerbread homes.
As each student will be building a gingerbread home, we require bases for each child. If you have sturdy cardboard at home (not cereal boxes) that we could build homes on, please send them to school in the next couple of days. If you have extras, please send those as well because we have around 100 grade 3 students! Also, please pre-cut them to into squares that are roughly 20cm by 20cm.
We will be providing the supplies to build the gingerbread, but if you would like to contribute in some way, please let us know!
We look forward to adding to the momentum tomorrow!
Sincerely,
Mrs. Hordyk
Mr. MacKenzie
The grade 1s have also noticed the work we have been doing around building rooms and purchasing items, and have asked us to help track down a lost gingerbread man by building homes and luring him in. Over the course of the next two weeks, students will go through a number of mathematical tasks as they purchase items for their gingerbread houses and construct them from the ground up. There is a website to guide them, here. There are also tasks that can be completed at home to prepare them for the lessons, if you are looking for additional work for your children.
Tomorrow we will continue examining rocks and planning our gingerbread homes.
As each student will be building a gingerbread home, we require bases for each child. If you have sturdy cardboard at home (not cereal boxes) that we could build homes on, please send them to school in the next couple of days. If you have extras, please send those as well because we have around 100 grade 3 students! Also, please pre-cut them to into squares that are roughly 20cm by 20cm.
We will be providing the supplies to build the gingerbread, but if you would like to contribute in some way, please let us know!
We look forward to adding to the momentum tomorrow!
Sincerely,
Mrs. Hordyk
Mr. MacKenzie