Remembrance Day...

The students, staff, parents and honoured guests of RBES attended a special ceremony on Friday in remembrance of those who fought for our freedom. In class, we read a few stories and spent some time talking about Remembrance Day and peace.

The students also worked on an Art project for the ceremony. After reading the poem, "In Flanders Field" by John McCrae, the students sketched a drawing of a poppy on top of a handwritten copy. They carefully ripped the edges to create an "old" look and then used paint to complete the project. 

LANGUAGE ARTS

This week, the students read about poppies and an article about John McCrae. After highlighting important information, they completed true/false and multiple choice questions.

We started working on long "e" vowel sounds. They brainstormed words and completed a few activities to reinforce the sound and discover different ways to make the "e" say its name. 

We have really been enjoying the short stories in the Collections series. The students have been building their confidence reading aloud to the class. We have started working on using expression when reading words inside quotation marks. 

The students were very surprised when their Morning Message was full of mistakes. They worked on editing my message, by making complete sentences and correcting the capitalization and punctuation. We will make this a weekly routine so they can become experts at editing their own work.

MATH

In Math, we worked on representing three digit numbers with base ten blocks and writing numbers in expanded form. We also practiced reading and writing number words for one, two and three digit numbers.

We started a new booklet called "How Many Ways". Once a week I will give them a three digit number and they need to come up with a list of addition/subtraction equations that are equal to that number. 

The students also learned a new place value game using dice. 

SOCIAL

The students continued learning about the seven continents. This week, they completed Asia, Africa, Australia and Antarctica. The students worked independently learning about the last three continents. After watching each video, they created a web and then made sentences using the facts they learned. 

ART

After reading the book "Owl Moon", we talked about the descriptive words and illustrations. The students learned about tints and shades and were shown how to mix paint to great a night sky. Next week they will be adding branches and a silhouette of an owl to their painting. 

AMAZING RACE