September 24th to 28th

Welcome to Room 14! 

We have been focusing on several learning intentions this week:

• Responsible Citizenship with a focus on Terry Fox and goal setting
• Making positive change in our community with a focus on Terry Fox and his desire to change the world
• Understanding what a wetland is, types of wetlands, and layers in wetlands
• Understanding place values to millions and billionsFocusing on using context cues to understand new vocabulary

As a class we brainstormed the following "Talking Points" for our learning this week:

ASK ME ABOUT...

Science

• Wetlands
• Non living
• Living
• Layers
• Wetlands booklets

Social

• Canada and the regions
• Terry Fox
• Orange Shirt Day- Every Child Matters (HINT- poster)

Math

• Place value booklet/project 
• Test me on my place value to millions and/or billions or let me test you

Language Arts

• The Tale of Despereaux
  
• Creating art cards that represent the story
• SWBST (somebody, wanted, but, so, then)
• Ask me the meaning of the word "conform"

Health

• Souper Star
• Food Safety- how to handle food and recognize kitchen dangers
• We are going to be learning how to make sandwiches

Other

• We had a practise fire drill today
• We participated in the Terry Fox Run
• Orange Shirt day is this Monday- October 1st

Project: The Dot
Message:  Believe in yourself 

• Created an image starting with only "one dot" on our papers
• Create a dot into whatever we wanted, and let our intuition guide us
• We started right away with permanent markers since there could be no "mistakes" in this project
• Here is a preview of our project