Week of January 5th
Over the past couple of weeks, we’ve been busy with lots of learning!
Math: Students are working on addition and subtraction with numbers up to one million and with decimals to the thousandths, using a range of strategies to build confidence and accuracy.
Social Studies: Students prepared for next week’s debate by exploring the opportunities and challenges that come with ancient civilizations who developed along rivers or coastlines.
Literacy: To mark the Winter Solstice, students learned about how the Lakota and Blackfoot people use a Winter Count recorded on the buffalo robe to preserve their collective memories and oral history over long periods of time. Students then created pictorial representations of collective classroom memories and wrote about their significance. Prior to the winter break, students also had the opportunity to meet an author, who shared their book and illustrations and gave students a behind-the-scenes look at the sketchbook used during the illustration process.
This week we also introduced new literacy stations as we move into story writing, including a book-making station.
Gym: Students took on a “Mission Impossible” challenge, working through creative obstacle courses that emphasized problem-solving and perseverance.
Thank you for your continued support at home.
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