Ms. Vanderwel's Room

Hello Everyone! Here is a peek at our week! This week we have been working on understanding the difference between a sentence and a sentence fragment. Students continue to review the parts of a sentence (i.e. naming part and telling part) and learning how to distinguish between sentences that have both parts and those that don't. Students played a game sorting sentences and sentence fragments into groups. They then practiced writing sentences with both a naming and telling part.  In math, we continued to build our knowledge of place value and also looked at expanded form to express the number of hundreds, tens and ones in a number. We also revisited counting to 100 and 1000 and worked on counting collections of objects up to 100.  In science, we looked at what is a question and questioning. Students learned that a question often begins with the 5Ws and 1H-- i.e. who, what, when, where, why and how. Students practiced asking questions and distinguishing questions from statement...

Hello Families! Happy 3rd Week of School : )  We had a great week. Here's what we have been up to! In language arts we read the book, Someday, by Eileen Spinelli. After reading, we shared our own dreams for the future. The students were very thoughtful about what they wanted to be or do when they grow up. Following our sharing time the students wrote their dream for the future down on a cloud which became part of an art project and class display.  Students have also continued to learn about the parts of a sentence and various parts of speech. This week we focused on verbs. Students learned that there are two kinds of verbs-- action verbs and being verbs. We focused on action verbs. Students had fun playing Charades acting out different verbs and getting the class to guess what their action was.  In math, students continued to develop their understanding of place value and how to use base ten blocks to build numbers into the double-digits (Gr. 1) and triple-digits (Gr. 2)....

Hello Families! Happy Friday! Welcome to the first of our many blog posts for the year! Here you will find highlights from our week, upcoming events, important reminders, links to videos and activities and more. This week I have posted some photos from both our first and second weeks of school. Enjoy! In langauge arts, students have explored the parts of a sentence including capitals, periods and spaces. They have also learned that sentences have two parts-- a naming part (subject) and telling part (predicate). Students have also been learning about the parts of speech beginning with nouns. Through videos, songs and games students have been practicing identifying nouns as either a person, place or thing.  In math, students have been working on recognizing and naming numbers to 20 in grade 1 and into the 100s in grade 2. Students have practiced counting, writing and building numbers using base ten blocks.  We have also begun discussing graphs-- what they are, why and how we use...

Hello! Happy last Friday of the year! Here's what we've been up to! --------------------------------------------------------------- In math, students began some 2D & 3D stations practicing their skills at sorting, identifying and building with shapes.   Sorting shapes by various attributes.   Tangram Puzzles & Sorting Shapes In science, we finished our research on coyotes and began working on the good copy of our coyote report. In ELAL we continued to work on listening for sounds in words and building words using our moveable alphabet. We went on a 3D shape hunt outside and played a fun game of camoflauge in the dip! Can you spot the children?   Google Classroom is available for students to access. Below are instructions for logging in. Please note that the use of activities in our Google Classroom is optional. These are not assigned, but are offered as extra activities that can support some of the learning we are doing in class. We will also be using the websites...