January 24, 2020

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Highlights:

-Continuing to write entertaining story beginnings. Students wrote a beginning using a Literacy Shed video.
-Students explored different First Nations oral stories and created a video to share what they learned. We will begin looking at pictographs and Writing on Stone next week.
-Students are continuing to work in their book club groups. They are completing summaries on what they have read, discussing the setting and recording words they don't know and finding the definition.
-Discussing the difference between natural and artificial light and chose a type of light source to research next week.
-Completed a whole school word problem using the question "How many beads do you think you could fit in your hand?"

Reminders:

-No school Jan. 31
-Lacrosse Residency Jan. 27-30
-Drumming Feb. 3-6
-Good Companions walking field trip on Feb. 10 - Details to come
-Drama artist residency on Feb. 5 in preparation for our Celebration of Learning
-Reports go home on the Jan. 30

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