Newsletter: January

I hope everyone had a great winter break! I would like to update you with what we've been working in our class. 

1. Literacy: 

   a) Writing- Procedural writing: We've been working on Procedural writing. We did a Gingerbread house activity as a formative task, and we were having so much fun building the  Gingerbread house (pictures are available in our Google classroom). The students had to include an introductory sentence, transitional words such as, First, Next, After that, Then, Last, and a closing sentence in their writing. Based on the feedback that I provide them with this activity, they are going to work on a summative task. 

Example work

b) Reading / Oral: Students successfully finished the "I wonder" presentation, and our next assignment is a "Book in a  Bag"presentation. The assignment sheet went home on Monday, and students will need to have this done by next week to present their book. They will have an opportunity to share what they read through different artifacts. (I will be only marking their work based on their oral presentation. The rubric for this assignment is attached on the assignment sheet.)  

c) Media Literacy: In our guided reading group, students picked their favourite product and started to create a poster about the product using "Pic Collage" app on the iPads. 

2. Math:

Before the break, we finished Number Sense unit and most of them did an amazing job on the final unit test! As a next unit, we started Measurement unit. Students are working on how to read a calendar, time (elapsed time), and temperature. This is a short unit, and after few more lessons, we are going to move on to Data Management unit. 

3. Social Studies:

Students are working on their final culminating task in the Heritage and Identity unit on Google classroom. We are going to finish this up this week, and students will build an artifact that they picked in the class. They can bring materials of their choice to build a model. After this unit, we are going to start a new science unit (Structure unit). 

If you have any questions about what we are working on, please do not hesitate to let me know.

Thank you,