Ms. Vanderwel's Room

Happy Friday! I hope everyone was able to stay warm this week! It looks like the weather will be improving for next week so no more indoor recesses and lunch : )  Here's a look at what we have been up to this week. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- In Language Arts, we continued to look at the parts of a sentence. Students also assessed their own work to ensure that they were remembering to include a capital letter at the start of their sentence(s), spaces between words and also a period at the end.  They also began to examine some mentor sentences to identify elements that make a good sentence. For example, this week we looked at a sentence from the book " Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type ". They noticed that the author bolded some words and used words that create a sound effect. The students then created similar sentences modelled on the example with their own animals and sound effects (i.e. onomatopoeia).  In reading, students hav...

  Hello! Here's a sneak peek at our learning this week! --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This week the students began learning to write in their journals using ideas from their Fact Pocket. We watched some videos about bats, owls and spiders. After brainstorming some facts that we learned about each animal the students wrote one, two or three sentences in their journals. The students are really focusing on beginning each sentence with a capital letter, leaving spaces between their words and putting a period at the end of the sentence. They included some excellent and very detailed illustrations with their work. Students also worked on a number of Literacy Station activities that reviewed the concepts of rhyming words, alphabet sounds, sorting pictures based on beginning sounds, building letters and practicing "Heart Words". In math, we continued to build numbers using ten frames and learning to subit...