Ms. Vanderwel's Room

Hello! We had an amazing week. Take a peek! -------------------------------------------------------------------------- In language arts, students continued to work on story retellings using loose parts. They also started to created their own fractured fairy tale and tell it using loose parts. Students learned that in a retelling or story telling there are important details that need to be included such as: important details (characters, setting, problem, events, solution) events are in order transition words (first, then, next) an interesting beginning sounds effects voices for the characters     Students also began a new round of fine motor and literacy stations to support the development of their printing and cutting skills and to reinforce concepts learned in class such as compound words, short and long vowel sounds, parts of speech (nouns/verbs/adjectives) and more. (I can't get photo to load right now. I'll try again later.) In math, students have finished learning about ...

  Here's a look at our week : )  --------------------------------------------------- In language arts, students began learning how to do a retelling using loose parts. They sat in a circle and built their setting using a variety of small items to be the characters, buildings, plants, animals, and other objects in the story. Then we took turns retelling a different part of the story. Today we did a retelling of 'Jack and the Beanstalk'. Students were guided to do their retelling as if they were actually telling the story and to use words and phrases from the book to make their retelling more interesting. For example, when talking about the giant wanting to eat Jack they included the 'Fee, Fi, Fo, Fum! I smell the blood of an Englishman!" line in their retelling. Ms. V even tried to used some funny voices to be the different characters.    In math, we continued talking about patterns. Students learned about pattern cycles in our environment such as the seasons, day/n...

 Hello! Hope you all had a lovely week. Here's a peek at our week : )  ------------------------------------------------- In language arts, students have been learning about the parts of speech. They learned what a noun, a verb and an adjective is. Students participated in a classroom "scoot" (scavenger hunt) in which they had to look for words hidden in the classroom and then decide what part of speech each word belonged to.      In math, the students have been exploring patterns. They have learned that a pattern is something that repeats. Patterns also have a core and in the core are terms or elements. Patterns can be expressed or labelled using AB, ABC, ABCD, ABB etc. Students looked for patterns in the classroom and created patterns using actions, pictures and manipulatives.       Students have also continued to learn about fractions. Students know that a fraction represents a part of a whole or a part of a set . Students have learned to ...