October 2-6

Hello families, 

Here's an update from this week! 

Math

We started the week looking at the calendar for October! Students wrote/drew about the special days in October and brought their calendars home to help keep them organized! We also learned about symmetry. The kids LOVED this song and were able to choose how explore symmetry with blocks, drawing, or dry erase. We learned a math game called "Knockout" which helps students with subitizing and addition fact automaticity. On Friday we learned about tally marks and did a "roll and tally" activity. 

Here's a link to the Knockout game - it's really simple and can be played at home (sorry the site has quite a few ads!) 






In literacy, we reviewed the letters N, O, D, U and G using UFLI and Animated Literacy. I'll add a video of all the Animated Literacy actions for you to use at home! With the lowercase letter d, I often use the visual below - it's silly but always helps students remember the difference between b and d! 






Science & Social Studies

This week we revisited the medicine wheel and the 4 sacred medicines. We learned what they are used for and which medicine is associated with each section of the medicine wheel. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZzfOFj6_d0&t=140s (here's a video about sacred medicines - Blogger has decided that I can't embed it into the blog!)



On Friday we enjoyed going to the park across the street and doing a sit spot to sketch some of the new trees that were planted. It was a beautiful day! 






We also talked about thanksgiving this week and the things we are thankful for! Students wrote a list of things they are thankful for while I was away on Tuesday.




This week we learned about the difference between big and small problems (kid-sized and teacher sized). Students worked in groups to sort problems and then we discussed as a group! We will continue learning how sometimes little problems can become big problems and what strategies students can use to try to solve small problems. 

Here's a video about big and small problems - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrvDP_txNzY&t=300s

Student sorting

Whole-class sorting


Upcoming Dates
  • Thursday, October 12th - Fun Lunch
  • Wednesday, October 18th - Fish Creek field trip
  • Friday, October 20th - PD Day (no school)
  • Thursday, October 26th - Fun Lunch
  • Tuesday, October 31st - Halloween at LBS (guidelines to come)

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