Wednesday 11 January 2017

Reading, writing, pictographs and maps!

Dear Children and Families,



Reminders:

HOME READING:  All students need to be reading for 15 minutes every night.  You could listen to someone read, read a home reading book, read using Raz-Kids, read our POWER words, read a favourite book you have at home.
-It’s still cold! Dress warm every day with snowpants, boots, jackets, hats and mitts!

Important Words:

POWER WORDS:            away, make, no, up, like
These are words we are learning to read and spell.

ACADEMIC WORDS:       data, tally, survey, bar graph,  pictograph        map, legend, compass rose, scale
These are words that we are learning to understand the meaning of in math and social studies.

Today:

We practiced reading to self and reading to someone.

We tried out some yoga moves for our body break.

We put on our thinking caps today and wrote a reading response about the story Where would I be in an Evergreen Tree?  Ask me what connection and question I wrote in my writing journal.

In math we used tally marks to collect data for a survey. Then we created a pictograph

Ask me what I did during music and gymnastics this afternoon.

We talked about using maps to help us learn about people and places during Social Studies.  We made a map of our classroom today.

Tomorrow’s Class Leader: Ellie (remember to bring a stuffy to share, it must fit in your backpack)

A guest teacher named Mrs Wright will be with the students tomorrow, Mrs Collins is back Friday, Monday and Tuesday.  See you all on Wednesday.

Ms. MacMillan

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