Thursday, 1 December 2016

December 2, 2016

Happy Winter Wonderland Families of Room 51!

Our Growth Mindset this week taught the children about how the brain works in relation to learning.  We also did some Growth Mindset art based on the book, “The Dot”.  Ask your child what they learned about the brain and what they created in their dot watercolour art.

Hopscotch anyone?  The focus in math this past week was on doubles as students practiced their mental mathematics, through math centers and also by drawing their own hopscotch board in the compound, in order to play doubles in their groups.  We saw some beautiful doubles art work.

Students continued writing their owl stories in language arts, remembering to use proper capitalization and punctuation.  They worked on writing sentences with their words of the week while taking on the Mystery Word challenge as one of the Daily 5 centers.

In social studies students began learning about mapping and started making a map of the classroom, while in gym they continued practicing their hockey skills, rotating through stations.

The students were singing wonderfully as they practiced their Christmas concert songs for “How to Train Your Reindeer to Fly”.

PLEASE NOTE:
Forms were sent home with your child with concert information and TICKETS on it this week.  Currently our gym is at capacity if every student brings two guests, and we cannot give out any extras.  BUT we are asking families to RETURN THEIR TICKET(S) if they are not planning to attend the evening performance, and we will redistribute those extra tickets to people who are interested in more.

If you are interested in more tickets, please let your child’s teacher know by Thursday at 3pm and your names and request will be added to a master list in the office. Depending on the numbers of requests and number of returned tickets, we will do a random draw of those names on Friday afternoon

Here is a link to Mrs. McBride’s Google Drive, which has ALL the Christmas concert lyrics and music so your child can practice at home.




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