Ms. Vanderwel's Room

 Hello Friends! Here's a sneak peek at our week! ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- This week in Language Arts we completed a pattern story based on the book 'Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?'.  After reading the story we brainstormed some Halloween characters to create our own version of the book. Each student selected a different character to illustrate and complete the story pattern. They then coloured their drawings.  We also talked about onomatopoeia. Onomatopoeia is when words sound like the sounds they make. For example:  bang, crash, boom!  We brainstormed sounds for our characters which students could include in their drawings. For fun the students got to write about what they thought I should be for Halloween. It looks like I'm going to be either a pumpkin, a witch or a cat fairy! In math, we began working on identifying, building, counting, ordering and representing numbers to 20. The students played ...

This week has been busy with inline skating, meeting the new Gr. 2 teacher Miss Cooper, painting and much more. Take a look!                   ---------------------------------------------------- In Language Arts, we worked on a number of new letter sounds (e, m, and c) and digraphs (aw/au, oi/oy and ow/ou). The students worked on listening for these sounds in stories, making words using the letter cards, sorting picture cards into groups based on sounds and reading decodable passages that focus on each sound learned.  In math, students continued to learn about growing patterns and predicting terms in patterns. They also reviewed the important parts of a pattern-- i.e. finding the pattern core, counting the terms-- and also how to extend patterns. Today we finished up our unit on patterns with a small quiz.  In gym students had a fantastic time learning to skate on inline skates. They played some games, tried some tricks (eg. Mini-m...

  Hello! Happy Friday! It's been an exciting week in Room 21. Take a look!    ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This week we continued to explore and review a variety of letter sounds. Students worked on building words using letter cards, reading passages with the target sound,  and playing some games to reinforce the sounds taught. In math, we looked growing patterns. We read the story "Rooster's Off to See the World", by Eric Carle. The students were asked to identify what if any pattern they noticed in the story. They cut out pictures of the animals that Rooster met while taking a walk around the world and then arranged them to see if they could find a pattern. They noticed that each time a new animal was encountered it was one more than the previous time.  The following day, students built growing patterns using pattern blocks.  After being given the first three terms of the pattern, they worked with a partner to ...