Dear Parents,
Another week has flown by. Just a few follow up notes:
Thank you for returning home communication folders. We have an update on learning we would like to send out this coming week, so please return if you have not done so already.
Thank you for all the adult volunteers that have reached out in regards to volunteering for our City Hall School experience in May. The week is starting to fill up. If you are still interested, please let me know before Easter weekend.
We have had a good return on our home decodable texts this past week as well. We are excited to earn our class reward! Keep it up!
Some highlights from the learning this week:
Literacy/Writing:
This week we continued to build on our understanding of non-fiction texts, with a closer look at instructional writing. How-to writing is a way of writing directions of how to do something for others to follow. We were asked to write instructions for an ‘alien’ who wouldn’t know how to brush their teeth. We then looked at the instructions that some students wrote, and noticed that if we don’t include enough detail, the instructions are not clear for the reader.
Learning Intentions
I can create written messages, in the form of instructions, to represent ideas and information
I can express ideas and information through the organization of instructional writing
I can record factual information in various ways
Social Studies
We continued to expand and build on our understanding of rural communities. We looked at pictures of rural communities with small groups and recorded what we noticed, thought and wondered. We also looked at a picture of a rural place, labeling and making labels for all the different things in an urban community, to help build vocabulary.
Learning Intentions
Recognize different groups or communities
Identify familiar landmarks and places in my community
Identify important landmarks and places that are significant features of the community
Identify differences between rural and urban communities
City Hall School Preparations:
Thank you to our parents who attended the Parent Council meeting last week and heard about our ongoing learning that has been taking place focused on our big question connected to City Hall School.
We are starting to ensure we take time during the week to include time for us to build on our journaling skills and have ways of recording our observations when looking at different things in different places. We went out to the learning grounds and engaged in a sound-scape. We listened to the sounds around us, and recorded different sounds we heard using symbols, labels or simple pictures to record them. We did a great job of sitting with our journals and recording our observations.
Learning Intentions:
I can collect ideas that are inspired by a variety of experiences
I can apply creative thinking to create a representation of a message
I can express ideas through a variety of different written forms
I can record factual information in various ways
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