Posts: 4/5 Bray Fourth week of school

9/28/2020 7:08 PM by mark.bray

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

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