Ms. Vanderwel's Room

Here's a sneak peek at our work this week....! ---------------------------------------------------------------- In Language Arts we began learning about "Small Moment" writing. We read a story entitled, "Night of the Veggie Monster" by George McClements, in which a young boy has to eat peas at dinner. After reading this story, we worked on sequencing the events in the story and retelling the story using the pictures.  After that we brainstormed some other 'small moments' from our own lives that we could write about. The students shared their small moment in pairs using the "5 Finger Touch & Tell" technique.  On Friday, we began creating a whole class small moment. We began by reviewing a small moment from earlier in the year-- a fire drill. We reviewed the events in this small moment and then began to illustrate our small moment by "Drawing Across the Pages".  In math, we began playing a fun game called 'Splat'. This helps...

This week has been a blur of activities and adventures! Take a look! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This week in Language Arts we continued building our awareness of letter patterns and sounds using our Making Words activities. We introduced a new sound-- the 'ng' sound. Students listened to a story and identified the different words with the 'ng' sound in it. They also learned that 'ng' can come after a number of vowel letters as in: -ing, -ang, -ong , -ung.  They completed a sorting activity listening for the various 'ng' endings.  In math, students have been rotating through a variety of math centres practicing their skills in skip counting, building numbers using place value blocks, using 100 Charts, counting sets of objects and more. In Science, we reviewed the signs of winter for people, plants, animals and weather. The students began creating a "Signs of Winter" wheel sorting pictures into...

Hello Families and Welcome Back! It has been a great start to the new year. Take a look at what we have been up to! -------------------------------------------------------------------------- In Language Arts, the students shared a highlight from their break and wrote about it in their journals. They have made so much progress in remembering to use capital letters, leave spaces between their words and using periods. They continue to work on adding greater detail and writing longer and more sentences in her writing. In math, we have been working on basic addition and subtraction with numbers up to ten. We reviewed what it means when we add (to get more) and what it means when we subtract (to get less or take away). They practice drawing pictures and then writing addition and subtraction sentences (equations) to go with them.  In Health, we reviewed the Zones of Regulation and Size of the Problem work. Students did an activity in which they had to sort pictures into groups based on wh...