Ms. Vanderwel's Room

Here's a look at our learning this week! ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This week we have been learning about the long /o/ sound and the different ways that this sound can be represented in words. Students worked on making words with the /o_e/ or /oa/ spelling patterns. They also worked on reading words with these spelling patterns and looking for rhymes. In Health, students learned about how the medicine wheel can help us to stay healthy in our mind and body. The students sat in circle and talked about each of the four dimensions of the medicine wheel-- spirit (to be/who I am), heart (to belong), body (to do), and mind (to know), They drew pictures to show different ways that they can connect with nature (spirit), be healthy (body), relax (mind) and people they can talk to when needed (heart). In math, students began to learn about mass and how we measure the mass of objects using non-standard units. Students watched a video explaining ho...

  Another week has flown by in room 21! Here is what we have been working on. --------------------------------------------------------------   In Language Arts, we have continued working on writing our own stories. Students have been organizing their ideas and stories so that we can work on our final copies next week!      In math, we continued working on measurement. We focused began learning about height and width this week and then moved into measuring monsters. We even created our very own measurement monsters! The kids were very excited to colour and name their measurement monsters once we finished.          In Social, we started learning about the different animals on the Blackfoot Medicine wheel: an eagle, a buffalo, a bear and a wolf. We discussed what these animals represent and asked students to pick which animal they felt represented them the best. Students were eager to share their ideas on what animals they are!   ...

Here's a sneak peek at our week..... ------------------------------------------------------- Over the last couple weeks in Language Arts we have explored fairytales and the different story elements. This week students began retelling and writing their own stories. They have been drawing, colouring, writing and expressing their creativity.  In math, we started talking about measurement and did various activities for measuring length. The students and I explored the length of objects and non-standard units we can use to measure things. We worked on using the terms shorter and longer and measured various objects throughout our classroom!  This week’s Author study was Leo Lionni. We are going to continue looking at his books next week as well. The kids love the colourful art he incorporated into his books.  In Science, we continued learning about plants and introduced the difference between living and nonliving things. We even went on a scavenger hunt on Tuesday and enjoyed t...

Hello Everyone! We just want to wish you all a Happy Easter! Enjoy the long weekend with your families : ) Here's a sneak peek at our week....... --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This week in writing the students examined fairytales to determine the problem, events and solution. After listening to Hansel & Gretel they ordered the story events into a booklet to look like the candy house in the story. We also worked on long vowel sounds concentrating on the spelling patterns for the long a vowel sound-- ai, a_e and ay. The students worked on making words using the different long a spelling patterns and sorting words into groups based on ai, ay or a_e. In math, we finished working on solving addition and subtraction problems. The students had to solve mixed problems looking for clue words to indicate if the problem was asking them to use addition or subtraction. This week's Author Study author was R...