Learning update May 26 2023

 ELAL

Students are learning about Fables and their morals or lessons. They performed some of them: The Boy Who Cried Wolf and The Tortoise and the Hare.

Students will begin to write their own fable next week.

Math:

Students worked on estimating quantities by following some clues. They kept practicing additional and subtraction up to 20. They came up with a variety of answers for a given problem. They had to calculate how many items they could buy for a cat at a pet store for $20 dollars.

Spanish:

Students are working on completing a booklet with all the vocabulary related to summer.

Science:

Students are filling out their research poster about an animal. Here is an example the teacher used to show students how to complete theirs.

Social Studies:

Students completed their posters about the past and are now learning about two new sacred teachings: Honesty and Wisdom. They created art and wrote about these teachings. 

Honesty: Sabe or Big Foot and Wisdom: The beaver

Learning Update May 16 2023

 ELAL

After reading The Paper Bag Princess, students created a fairy tale story as a class.

Students are currently working on writing their own fairy tales after drawing their story map. They used a sequencing list of sentence starters to begin their stories.

Spanish

Students were learning about healthy eating habits and drew three healthy meals using the vocabulary of food.

Math:

Students continued to practice the addition and subtraction facts up to 20 using the following strategies:

Ten frames, number lines, making ten, pictures, and equations.

Social Studies:

Students learned,  compared and completed a poster with the past and the present in different aspects of daily life.

Science:

Students will begin to do animal research to learn about habitat, diet, adaptations and fun facts.

Inline skating dates and times

 

1- Wednesday, May 24 (9:10-10:10)

2- Wednesday, May 31 (9:10-10:10)

3. Tuesday, June 6 (11:30-12:30)

4. Tuesday, June 13 (11:30-12:30)

5. Tuesday, June 20 (11:30-12:30)

Learning Update May 5 2023

 ELAL:

Students identified the story elements of a Fairy Tale. We used the story of The Paper Bag Princess to do the retelling by identifying characters, beginning, middle, and end.

Math: 

Students used nonstandard units of measurement ( paper clips, popsicle sticks, blocks, and other objects )to find out the length, width, and deep of different classroom objects.

We continued practicing the additional and subtraction facts up to 20

Spanish:

Students practiced the vocabulary of activities they like to do in spring by speaking in complete and detailed sentences.

For example: En la primavera me gusta montar en bicicleta con mi familia en un dia soleado en el fin de semana. (In spring, I like  to ride my bike with my family on a sunny day during the weekend)

Students finished their mini-book about Spring and shared them with their grade 3 reading buddies.

Science: 

Students identified living and non-living things and sorted out pictures. 

We discussed different ways of helping the Earth and taking care of plants and animals.

Students will start their research about an animal. They will look at the habitat, diet, adaptations, and fun facts.

Social Studies:

Students were introduced to the past and how life was very different from today.

Students will complete a poster to compare the past and the present in different categories: homes, schools, transportation, shopping, and clothing. 

For example:

Homes 

Then: In the past, homes used candles to light up the rooms.

Now: In the present, homes use electricity to light up the rooms.

Art

Students learned about courage (7 sacred teachings) that is represented by the bear. They did a ber's paw with oil pastels and wrote examples of acts of courage