We had a fantastic time this morning telling stories about all of the fun Halloween activities each of us did over the weekend. Afterwards, we used our projector and an interactive 100 chart to look for number patters when counting by 2s, 5s, and 10s. We talked about how each of the columns on the 100 chart has a name (the 1s column, 2s column, ....10s column). Tomorrow we will be exploring the 2s pattern in small groups. In Language Arts, we learned that there are 3 parts to a fiction story; the beginning, middle and end. We learned that the beginning of the story tells how the story starts, where the setting is, and who the main characters are. We will be exploring, beginning, middle and end this week, as well as the words problem and solution. Please ask your child about these parts during your nightly reading. We wrapped up our sub-unit on plant life cycles today by running centres where partners moved around the room reviewing the material that we have learned over the last 5 weeks. We will be moving on to animal life cycles tomorrow. We were very happy with how our students were approaching mastery of these important skills. We will continue to learn about the plant life cycle by taking care of our classroom garden which continues to shoot up and strike our children with wonder and awe. During the Daily 5 today, students were introduced to a number of different things they could write. Students made choices, and began to write letters, menus, comic books, lists, and stories. It was nice to see them so excited about writing.
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