Long Time No Blog

My apologies for the late blog - we've been learning so much that there hasn't been time to write about it!

Therefore, we don't promise to make this short!

We loved Grandparents Day! We sang a song and wowed the crown with our voices and our smiles. We also had so much fun leading our grandparents around and showing them our room (it was also fun pretending to be each other's grandparents to tour around the room!)

In literacy we made rhyming word puzzles, and then traded with our friends to see if we could figure out theirs! This was one of our favourite things!

We have also just yesterday started learning syllables by clapping our names. This is another phonemic awareness skill that is important for understand how words are built in reading and writing. We also used picture and context clues during independent reading to find words and clap them as well.

We use letter chompers during this time to find letters and eat them up!

In math, we have learned about sorting and organizing information. We have learned about surveys and t charts and bar graphs. Today we learned about pictographs!

We have begun our leadership binder and our leadership roles - ask your child about their classroom responsibilities! This is our week of training but several students have already assumed full roles!

We also saw leadership in other areas. After listening to different sounds on our piano keyboard for high and low and different tones, thanking God for sound, JE asked if the piano could be a centre. I said yes, but that I was not able to organize it that day because we had other learning plans that I couldn't move, like small group math centres; therefore we would need a student action team! JE and HA stepped up, and independently decided on three rules for the centre, asked for help with spelling, made a poster, and helped explain the centre to the rest of the class! They worked very well together, and our class is enjoying the new centre!

We have also started exploring fall! We looked at the pallet of colour God used in fall. This made us wonder about why not all the yellows looked exactly the same, and why they sort of melted into the oranges and the greens.

The students would like to tell you what happened next!

"We wanted to know what colours weren't in the leaves. We used the iPad to look up colours and we found a colour wheel.

We decided to make one, so first we learned about primary colours - we call them powerful primaries because they make the other colours: red, blue, and yellow. 

Then we practiced mixing them to make different shades of the secondary ones: purple and orange and green!

We turned a table upside down to trace! (PS. This was an exciting moment!)

And we used our cutting skills to cut out the circle!

Then we used markers to make lines where the colours need to go and tape so we can stay in the line.

Then we made labels and put the (secondary) colours in the middle of the ones that made them!"

We are going to glue in things God made in those colours and our shades! We will also show and share to Grade 1/2 who are learning about colour right now as well!