December 9-13

 Dear Parents

We have been busy getting ready for our winter concert! If you have requested tickets, please check your child’s messenger bag for them. If you plan on NOT attending the concert in the evening please inform your child’s teacher.  Take a look at the sneak peek of our art below!

We also sent home our red communication folders this week. If you have not had a chance, please review your child’s progress, comment, and return the folder on Monday.

Literacy

Thank you to those who have already emailed a picture or artifact illustrating your family's tradition at this time of year. Please continue to send in those pictures or artifacts, as we will continue to share them next week. These traditions have been the focus of our writing cycle. Using a graphic organizer, students created a four-part plan to create a story of their family tradition.  

Learning Intentions

• I can organize my thoughts to share ideas and information Ideas

• I can create written messages that align with an intended audience or purpose

• ​​I can transfer my understanding of words to different situations.

• I can appreciate how the traditions, celebrations and stories of their families, groups and communities contribute to their sense of identity and belonging

We have continued to work on our letters and sounds.  This week we focused on K, H, R.  Please take a look below at the home practice to review with your child

Math:

This week we have been wrapping up our study of patterns.  Students focused on finding the missing element of a pattern, identifying the core of a pattern and extending the pattern, and representing their understanding of patterns through a Christmas light problem.  

Learning Intention:

Recognize cycles encountered in daily routines

Identify the pattern core, up to four elements, in a cycle.

Identify a missing element in a repeating pattern or cycle.

Extend a sequence of elements in various ways to create repeating patterns.

Create different representations of the same repeating pattern or cycle, limited to a pattern core of up to four elements.

Pattern Structure

The structure of a repeating pattern describes how it repeats. It does not give any information about the items that appear in the pattern.

For example, these two patterns have the same structure:

Once we identify the structure of a pattern, we can name the pattern with letters.

Both patterns above are AAB patterns.

When we use different things to create a pattern with the same structure, we say we are translating the pattern. You can translate this ABA pattern made with numbers to get the ABA pattern made with shapes.

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Helping Your Child

It can be difficult to find repeating number patterns in day-to-day life. Instead, take opportunities to share visual or sound patterns with your child. Ask your child to name the pattern using letters.

For example, you could stamp, clap, clap, stamp, clap, and clap again (which is fun). Your child can join in once he or she recognizes the pattern. Then ask your child to name the pattern (in this case, ABB).

You could do the same with colour patterns and shape patterns.