The Week So Far!

Students are working on a 30-Day Writing Challenge, in an attempt to increase our speed and stamina with writing.  Ask your child about the topics they've written on!  We've used this writing to work on editing skills such as sentence structure, spelling unfamiliar words, and punctuation.  Today was day 5 - so we have a long way to go!  Our writing today was connected to images from World Heritage Sites and students practiced literacy skills of "Observation, Questioning, and Inferring" while looking at the pictures.

Math: We have been working with the language of multiplication and learning strategies such as doubling and halving; making groups; and skip counting in an effort to become efficient mathematicians.  Students love the "Quick Flash" game, where they will see quickly a flash of numbers or objects and will have to use strategies to determine how many objects they see.

We continued working on learning about the land regions of Alberta, Peru, Tunisia, India, and Ukraine.  We will be building tactile maps of the countries next week - stay tuned for pictures of those!