This week in Religion, students will hear the Gospel from this past Sunday where a blind man from Jericho asks Jesus to help him to see again. Students will reflect on the gift of their eye sight through an In My Heartroom Christian Meditation and will write prayers to God about their eyes. Also, students will begin to explore what happens during the different parts of a mass and the meaning behind everything that happens during a mass. Last week in Literacy, students wrote a reading response about what fairness means to them, after hearing the Global Read Aloud "It's Not Fair." They also continued to work with different homophones during word work stations and will continue to do so this week. On Friday we briefly talked about run on sentences and this week will take a closer look at how we can avoid having run on sentences in our writing through a writers workshop mini lesson. This week students will learn about a retelling technique called Somebody, Wanted, But, So, Finally that they can use to retell a fiction story. After our independent reading times, students have been enjoying sharing things they were thinking about or discovered during reading time in a conversation circle. Students are sharing the author's purpose, the author's message, facts they learned, homophones and homonyms they found and are even beginning to ask each other questions about the books being read. It's so exciting to listen to them having engaging conversations about the books they are reading. In Math we continue to focus on comparing and ordering large numbers. Last week our students went out and gathered the last bit of data we needed for our inquiry about how all students from St. Cecilia get to school. Once they had the numbers that they had gathered, we spent some time creating strings of numbers to practise our adding strategies with. This week we will graph the data we have gathered and will explore how to write detailed conclusions about what our graphs show, using the titles and labels on the graph to help us. Our budding Scientists continue to Read, Record and Wonder about Soil. During a knowledge building circle last week, students had the to opportunity share the new knowledge they had acquired and took a leading role in building the knowledge of their peers. This week we will start to look at their wonderings and will begin to organize some of these questions for students to complete a soil inquiry about.
This past Thursday, we began our Dance unit. Students will be learning some different dance steps that they can use at our Halloween Dance-a-thon this coming Friday and have already started learning a whole group routine with steps that they will eventually be able to use as they choreograph short dance routines to music in small groups. Students are allowed to wear costumes to our Dance-A-Thon. We will brainstorm the can and cannot bring items with students tomorrow. So far students cannot bring masks and cannot bring props (e,g, light savers). Please be sure to send in your Dance-A-Thon envelope and monies collected to support the many worthwhile initiatives our amazing parent council work so hard on by Thursday, October 29th. Thank That is our week at a glance. Have a Spooktacular week!
God Bless Is the author's purpose to persuade, to inform or to entertain? After turning and talking here are some of our ideas: I think the author's purpose is to persuade. I think this because if it's to persuade it's to persuade people to be fair. I think this because people are happier when things are fair. The characters in this book were unhappy when things were not fair for them. I think the author's purpose is to inform because I learned that things go better when things are fair. I think the author's purpose is to inform because I learned that people are sad, heart broken and disappointed when things are not fair. I think the author's purpose was to entertain. I was entertained by the rhyming words and the illustrations made me laugh.
We have many budding scientists in our 3A and 3B classroom community. Last week students began reading non-fiction texts about soil. While they were reading they enthusiastically recorded facts they learned and wonderings they still have about soil. Students were really engaged in this task and will continue to explore texts about soil during more "Read, Record and Wonder" time this week. In order to share their learning with peers and build on their knowledge and the knowledge of others, we will have a knowledge building circle later on in the week. Students are learning that gaining knowledge from their peers is an exciting way to build upon their schema.
Once students have completed their read, record and wonder work, they will have the opportunity to explore several soil samples and record the observations they make. You now have a glimpse of the exciting week of learning we have ahead of us. Thank you for being supportive and positive partners in your child's Catholic Education. Enjoy a week full of fall blessings! Wishing you and your family a wonderful Thanksgiving! We all have so much to be grateful for. During the week, the students reflected upon all the things they are grateful for. During intentions each day they thanked God for their ample blessings. The students are working on writing prayers. We will continue to write a prayer of thanks to God for our wonderful hands. Below is a video and song that students enjoyed listening to while they worked on their Thanksgiving Art and Hand prayers. Take a moment to listen to this short but beautiful song with your child this week and keep the "giving thanks" of the Thanksgiving season alive.
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