Ms. Vanderwel's Room

  Hello and Happy Friday! Here's a sneak peek at our week : )     ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This week we started working in multi-aged literacy groups working on increasing our knowledge of letter sounds and letter combinations to improve our skills in decoding-- blending and segmenting- words into sounds and vice versa. In writing, we talked about Remembrance Day and why we take time to remember those that have fought in wars. We watched a video and listened to a story about peace. We talked about what peace means and how we can help to create a peaceful world. Then we wrote down our ideas. Next week we will add the finishing touches to these. In math, we have finished our unit on numbers to 100 (Gr. 1) or 1000 (Gr. 2) and place value. Students completed a short assessment of the concepts we have covered including skip counting, identifying numbers, ordering numbers, building numbers with base ten blocks and telli...

Here's a look at our week! ----------------------------------------------------------------------- In language arts we have been writing about different animals in our journals remembering to use proper sentence format-- i.e. capital letter at the start, spaces between words and a period at the end. Students in grade 1 have been writing 1-3 sentences. Students in grade 2 have been writing 3-5 or more sentences.  In social studies, we began learning about the Medicine Wheel and its importance in First Nations culture. The students listened to a story telling about the significance of the Medicine Wheel to First Nations people and what the various parts of the wheel represent and are beginning to make a booklet to show their learning.  In math, the students have been working through some math centres to practice the skills they learned counting and representing numbers to 100 or 1000. In science we talked about some more of the seasonal changes we see in the fall and completed a...

 Here's a sneak peek at our week... --------------------------------------------------------------------- In reading we continued to learn and review a number of letter sounds. This week we focused on /n/ and /o/ and /d/ in grade one and on /ch/, /sh/ and /th/ in grade two. In writing we continued to focus on what makes a sentence and fixed sentences that were not quite right. We also learned about some of the local animals that live in Calgary and wrote in our journals using the facts we researched.  In math, we are nearing the end of our study of numbers to 100 (Gr. 1) and numbers to 1000 (Gr. 2). We continued to build numbers using base ten blocks and also learned how to represent numbers using expanded form. Students were able to represent and identify numbers in various forms.  In Science, we completed another experiment using baking soda and vinegar. We reviewed the Scientific Method as we worked through each step of the experiment. Students were able to accurately ...