This week the students' writing has been based on their Leaf Creature creations. We talked about the importance of both pictures and words to tell a story and the students were challenged to create a WOW picture. Ask your child what makes a WOW picture. They really took their time and lived up to this challenge. Students are working on adding as many letter as they can when sounding out and writing. Some are able to add the first letter they hear (example for 'sun' they write 's.' Others hear beginning and end sound (sun is written 'sn') and others can hear the vowel in the middle. Once they are able to hear 'sun' they are able to write many more words in this word family (run, fun, gun). This is the progression we will see in the students throughout the year.
This week in math the kids have been using rekenreks to represent numbers, and as a tool for problem solving. Todays problem included baking cookings on two levels of the oven. Students are encouraged to show their thinking using pictures and numbers.
Today we used paint to explore tints and shades. Students made a monochromatic colour pallete using either red or blue paint and adding black and white.
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