Week 2 in Room 3

 

This Week in Room 3

September 13, 2024

Important Dates Ahead:

September 16: Return Library Books

September 19: End of Summer Ice Cream Celebration Community Walk to Abbey’s Ice Cream.

                         Open House ( 5-7pm)

September 23: Return Library Books

September 26: Cooking in the Class

                        Terry Fox Run/Walk

September 27: PD Day – NO School

September 30: Truth and Reconciliation Day – NO School

Hello Room 3 Families!

It was another wonderful week in Room 3! This week was “Dot Week” and we incorporated dots and circles into a lot of our learning. In Math we discussed Circles. We brainstormed what kinds of things are circle shape in our environment. Some things we came up with were, tires, a variety of different balls, the door on a washing machine, a clock and several other things. The students transformed regular circles into so many different circular shaped things. It was a fun activity.

We also read the book, 10 Black Dots by Donald Crews. This book explores different numbers of black dots on a page and how we can create different things with dots. Some ideas the students came up with, were a Garbage Truck using 3 Black Dots, a Rollerblade using 4 Black Dots, an Army Tank using 7 black dots, and a Robot using 10 black dots.

We discussed how there are dots on dice and on dominos and used them as tools to create and solve addition questions.

In Literacy, we continued to explore letters in the alphabet. This week we took a closer look at the letters M, I, U, C, and O. We introduced the “Weekend Report”, which we will do every Monday (or the first day of our school week) to practice using our recalling and retelling skills. 

We had the opportunity to explore some educational games on the computer this week. We played some different math and literacy games, and explored Epic! Books which has a large online catalogue of books that the students enjoy reading themselves or listening to. We will continue to build upon our computer literacy skills throughout the school year.

I would like each student to bring a pair of headphones for use at school on the computer as it can get quite loud when the students are all doing different activities on the computers. If you could send your child with a pair of headphones (please label) with a normal headphone jack at your earliest convenience that would be much appreciated. 

This week we began focusing on social-emotional learning. This week we discussed the topic, “It’s Okay When Someone Say’s No”. We talked about how sometimes our friends, or teachers or family may tell us “No”. We discussed how sometimes hearing “No” can make us feel sad, disappointed or angry. We talked about the importance of controlling our emotions and bodies when these feelings rise up inside of us. Some strategies we can use are: 

-Deep breathing

-Walking away to a safe place

-Using a calm voice to express our feelings/ask questions

-Drawing a picture to represent how hearing no makes us feel.

We did our first Science experiment this week. We discussed Science Experiment safety before we began our first experiment of the year. This week we asked the question. If we light a tea bag on fire what will happen? We talked about what a hypothesis is, how it is a guess about what we think might happen. Some hypothesis’ we had for this experiment was “It will burn in half” and “it will shoot up into the sky”. We tried the experiment many times it was very exciting.

We did some Explorative Art this week, using toilet paper rolls, circle stickers, bingo dabbers, and circular paper cutters. We read the book The Dot by Peter Reynolds which has the message that everyone is an artist, you just have to start by making a mark! 

Community Walk to Abbey’s Ice Cream:

Next Thursday, September 19, we will be walking from our school to Abbey’s Ice Cream. This is a “Good Bye, Summer” Celebration, as the first day of Fall is on September, 22. 

If you would like your child to be able to get ice cream, please send them with $5.00 cash on Thursday, September 19. We will practice some important life skills, such as ordering, paying and accepting/counting change. 

Open House:

Next Thursday, September 19, Terrace Road School will be hosting a casual, come and go, Open House from 5-7pm. This is an opportunity to meet your child’s teacher and see the space in which they are learning in each day. This is not a formal meeting and we will not be discussing individual student’s academic progress or challenges. If you would like to discuss your child’s learning, or any other specific questions regarding our programming please arrange an alternative time where we can meet in private.

Library Book Exchange:

On Tuesday, our class went to the Library at school for the first time this school year. It is a nice opportunity for the students to explore a variety of books and choose 1 or 2 that they would like to borrow for the week. If you could please send your child’s library book(s) back to school with them each Monday we can ensure they can check out new books on Tuesday our Library day.