Week 27

- March 24, 2019

IMPORTANT DATES...

MARCH 25-29   Spring Break

APRIL 3 Early Dismissal @ 2:21pm

APRIL 4   Golden Greenhouse Field Trip

APRIL 12 No School - PD Day

APRIL 18 Family Dance

APRIL 19 Scholastic Book Order due
No School - Good Friday

APRIL 22 No School - PD Day

APRIL 25   Tooth Talks @ 1 pm

LANGUAGE ARTS

LISTENING GAMES I read the book Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs by Judi Barrett to 1C this week. Our phonological awareness activities were focused around the book this week. A super fun, imaginative tale for weather watchers of all ages. This book skillfully and subtly blends funny storytelling and full colour illustrations with a very real twist about how weather can affect people's environments.

WRITING Last week, the students wrote about "How to Catch a Leprechaun" in a series of how-to steps in their Writing Journals and wrote a good copy that they shared with their peers. On Monday, we read the book How to Trap a Leprechaun and shared ways Liam the Leprechaun 'moved' around the pages to escape the trap the children made. 1C had the opportunity to become Liam the Leprechaun and role played ways that the leprechaun could escape a trap.

MATH

Students learned how to 'count on' to add correctly within 10 using pictures, fingers and small objects. A great game to play at home to practice this skill is the math card game called Addition Face Off.

Later on this week, the students learned how to use number lines and number charts to help them with various addition equations.

SCIENCE

This week, students learned about how our senses protect us from dangerous situations such as a fire, crossing the street, an angry dog or an ambulance racing by. They were also introduced to different capabilities. The students recognized and learned to appreciate that humans have different capabilities for sensing the environment and can use aids to assist them such as glasses and guide dogs. 1C had the experience to look (and feel!) at a few Braille books.

They also discovered that our senses could also mislead us in certain situations. 1C had the chance to carry out an experiment determining if you can rely on only ONE sense. They knew that seeing enables us to avoid obstacles, smell of smoke tells us something is burning, smell is not reliable when we have a cold, skin may not immediately tell us when we are getting sunburned or frostbitten, etc.

Each group received two small Ziploc bags containing two solids the same colour (flour/powdered sugar OR sugar/salt). The students had to record their observations and were not allowed to use any other sense to determine the mysterious substances. They had to make a guess of what was inside each of the Ziploc bags. Once they recorded their observations they made a conclusion. As a class, discuss if it was easy or hard to tell the two liquids apart. The students were asked what could help them determine what was in the two Ziploc bags.