4/5 Bray Weekly Email to families:
September 28- October 5
Good morning parent9)/guardian(s) of 4/5 Bray students.
Please assist your child with becoming independent at asking
you to assist them with their homework and getting their agenda signed by an adult,
encourage your child to develop the habit of reading a high-interest material
for 15 minutes daily with your support by asking them about what they read.
HOMEWORK:
In addition to Reading and responding to Reading, students
will complete some Math Practice which targets their areas for development.
In week 4 of back-to-school, learning will continue to focus
in the following areas:
Language Arts:
Reading:
Developing a daily reading habit
Learning to find a “good fit” book (good fit books for
personal reading boxes – you may ask
your child about this
Learning how to work with a reading partner, as part of our
Daily 5 Reading Program (ask your child about this)
Sharing our Reading likes and dislikes – areas for
developing personal reading skills
Learning how to use the Reading CAFÉ – most students chose
to develop Comprehension skills (please note the questions that are included in
your child’s homework duotang for you and your child to practice reading
comprehension).
We are focusing on the skill to Predict (predict what will
occur next in a reading)
Writing:
Writing conventions for setting up writing on a page: name
and date in the appropriate places on a page
Writing response about Orange Shirt Day – October 1st
Writing about “resiliency” when faced with a challenging
task
Speaking and Listening:
Develop Listening Skills – to teacher and to classmates
Develop skills to follow directions and classroom routines
Learning the importance of sharing and listening to our
class members’ ideas
Develop Listening Skills – via teacher reading aloud of
“Hatchet” by Gary Paulsen
Math:
Students are now doing well in Math centers with a focus on
Place Value review
Our focus is on Whole Numbers and the specifically Place
Value of numbers: ones, tens, hundreds, thousands)
Last week, a short assessment on addition and subtraction was
completed so that targets for learning can be made. Student learning groups for
learning the times-tables have been created.
Science:
The elements of the Scientific Method were introduced for
use in student science experiment activities
This week, students will observe and record observations for
an exploding Mentos/Diet Coke experiment.
Social Studies:
Learning to develop our understanding of Orange Shirt Day
through class discussion
Learning to develop our ideas about culture via a group-project
French:
Students are learning French for one and a half hours a
week. We are currently learning the “Morning Routine” which consists of
understanding how to reply to and, to ask the following questions about: date,
season, weather and temperature.
PDCP (Personal Development and Career Planning):
The LSS Guidance Teacher presented an activity on Developing
Resiliency when one encounters a challenging experience
Students are learning to develop our understanding of Orange
Shirt Day (Respect and Honour those First Nations people who suffered traumatic
experiences in Canadian Residence School) through class discussion
One of our class GOAL is learning to be more independent in
completing our homework routine (asking an adult to assist with the completion
of homework and returning agenda with an adult’ s signature)
Students have learned to use our school agenda for recording
homework but also special events such as: classmates’ birthdays
We have been learning how to practice kindness towards
others.
We have been learning to help out in the classroom and to
take responsibility for our actions
The “Zones of Regulations” system of identifying and
regulating our emotions are being reviewed.