Investigation, Reflection and Collaboration
This past week we spent a great deal of time looking through our work and accomplishments from this year. We reflected on our work as readers, writers, mathematicians, scientists, and social scientists and began setting goals for ourselves to work towards during the remainder of this year. We are very excited to share all this information with you during our upcoming conferences this week.
We launched a new inquiry into geometry. The kids are very excited about this unit. They often feel like they're not, "doing math" during geometry and don't realize the level of thinking and determination required during our engagements. We will continue this inquiry over the next couple of weeks as we learn mathematical names, attributes, and eventually explore them in terms of fractions, perimeter and area.
Our weather groups worked diligently this week to complete their information posters and artwork. Each group planned their own poster, artistic portion, and speaking parts. We began with presentations on Friday and will complete the remaining groups tomorrow.
I hope you are enjoying our literature study, Prince of the Pond, as much as the kids and I are. I know many of you are reading along with your children and I want to thank you for sharing in these discussions. The conversations you are having at home have helped them as readers to make logical predictions and ask questions that strengthen their comprehension. We have grown so fond of the characters and the hilarious dialogue. Each day as we are lining up or walking to activities, I hear the kids quoting lines form the story. As writers, they are trying to find ways to incorporate humor into their own craft as well.
This Coming Week
We will wrap up the weather presentations and dive back into social studies. Our Prince of the Pond reading log will be similar to last week's with assignments only on Monday, Wednesday, and the weekend. We will continue our investigations in geometry and complete our prep work for student led conferences. Please remember to check the schedule to review the time for your conference. We can't wait to celebrate our learning with you.
Important Dates
Friendship Day
February 15 11:30 Dismissal/Student Led Conferences
February 18 School Holiday
February 20 Author Visit: Elizabeth Hardwick
Thoughtful collaboration and planning about how to share our learning in this weather unit...
Here we are investigating how to create shapes and replicate patterns.
Creating the final products for our weather projects...
We began presenting our projects on Friday.
