We came together as a new class and developed our criteria for what a good classmate Says/Does/Is and created a pledge/promise that we agreed would create an environment where we all will feel happy, safe and able to learn.
Math
We started with the idea of mistakes grow our brains and that productive struggle is a good thing because that is when learning happens. We watched this incredible video from Jo Boaler, a professor of Mathematics Learning from Stanford University.
Have a look at her key messages to us.....
We accessed our prior knowledge about place value and then looked at one of the Big Ideas, our present Math learning goal, in the Ontario curriculum for Number Sense- by the end of gr 6 students will be able to read, represent, compare and order whole numbers to 1,000,000. We will be moving towards decimal numbers to thousandths.
Here is a great video we have been enjoying moving and grooving to as well as a fun Math Talk we did with the belowWould You Rather Prompt- ask your child which they chose and why.
In Literacy, we watched the below video and students wrote me Dear Teacher letters to let me know what they need this year in order to learn:
We shared some of the Book Sells students had been working on in their initial classes. We also were asked to share our understanding of the word Inferencing....
They were then asked to watch a video and asked was there a change in their thinking.
We will be delving more into inferencing and its importance for readers as we begin a class read aloud of the story Iqbal.
Please see the link below for students/parents to volunteer for the upcoming Halloween dance. Volunteer Link
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Have a great weekend!
Mrs. B
