jeudi 11 septembre 2014

Weekly letter #5




Dear Parents,
Here are our learning events for this week.



We have been having a very good time on September 11th with Corde's grandmother, Anasara's dad and Lauren's grandmother.
Thanks to them for coming and work with the students on mapping the class's grandparents.


French :
Reading : We began the third chapter of "Kolos".
We have been working on the vocabulary VOC 6.
Spelling : We did the sound L tests on Wednesday and Friday.
Grammar : We were working on "negative sentences".
Writing : We invented sentences about the "words of the day" and negative sentences. We wrote sentences about "What is Peace for you".
Some students worked on the Ipad with the App : "Educreation".
Poem : We are still working on our second poem "Le géant de Zeralda".

Math :
Calculation : We did our third "calcul rapide": the challenge was to do 40 or 50 easy calculations (additions) in 3 minutes and practiced some games with http://calculatice.ac-lille.fr/calculatice/
Problem solving : We have been working on our third collaborative Problem Solving on Friday.
Geometry : We have been working about : Perceive and recognize some geometric properties and relationships:  alignment Géom 1.
USmath :we were still working on  written, standard, and expanded forms of the numbers.


Discovering the world :
Time : We were still working on knowing the lengths of months, years and other divisions of the year.
Science : We started a unit about "water". We workd more specifically about knowing the liquid and solid states of water in nature and in relation to certain meteorological phenomena observed (formation of ice, snow, hail, fog...).
Art : We continued our work about complementary color pairs : red/green, yellow/violet, blue/orange.
Space : We have been working on using different maps to find where grandparents live (see the powerpoint).


Have a wonderful weekend.

Mrs. Thillier