Tomorrow is crazy Christmas/Winter sweater/shirt day (if you would like to participate). Tomorrow afternoon is the dress rehearsal for the concert and the evening performance. See the Monday Connect Messages for more information.
Today Mr. Kai's group went on their field trip to Ralph Klein Park and now all three groups have had the opportunity to go on this fabulous trip. It ties in nicely with the Seasonal Changes unit and we focused on animal adaptation to the seasons, migration and hibernation. We have been doing visual journal pages about our trip. See below for pictures of Mr. Kai's group.
The summer and winter groups (Mrs. Bates and Ms. Disher) stayed behind and worked on our author study special project. All three groups will have the opportunity to study Jan Brett's books and the Robert Munsch Christmas books. Activities center around writing, making words, a math task and an art activity. We will be spending the next few days working on finishing this before the break. The writing tasks were responses to the books and would be great for you to do at home. We focused on retelling the stories in our journals using three prompts: beginning (or "first"), middle (or "next") and end (or "last"). We also worked on identifying the characters, setting, problem(s) and solutions(s) to the stories.
There is no school on Friday.
The comments for your child are now up on Powerschool for the Math Learning Intention that was posted on November 15th.
Have a fantastic day!
From the Peace Pod
