This week in Math, we finished Unit 3 on Number Stories. I will be marking and sending home assessments next week. What is so great about our Everyday Math program is that it takes a spiral approach to Mathematical learning, so that we continue to address standards and concepts learned in this unit throughout the year. I encourage you to analyze the assessment and ask any questions you need to help provide your child with any necessary additional support at home. I have included the family letter for our next unit below on length and addition facts. All home links can be found on your child's Everyday Math page. You can access it through the resources section above. During Language Arts, we have begun our second bend of the personal narratives unit. Students are now learning additional writing, revising, edition and publishing techniques and strategies to write better narratives. I look forward to working through the writing process with each of your children, and when we are finished we will have another publishing party, using a different format. This week we began an inquiry on bees. Our fabulous teacher apprentice, Frances has planned and implemented this unit meticulously so far. To begin this unit, Frances read us a book called 'Buzz.' After this, we looked at many different books about bees and thought about what we wondered about bees. After discussing and writing down our inquiries, we learned about the parts of a bee through sining a song and using our body parts. Following this we labelled the parts of a bee on a diagram and made models of bees using play dough. The next day, Frances had students work in small groups to sequence pictures showing each part of the life cycle of a bee as best they could. Following this, she read a book, and students checked to see if they sequenced the cycle correctly. After this, students wrote about the life cycle of a bee independently before engaging in a really cool activity.
When Frances came into the room on Wednesday, she hid a box of cookies. After sequencing the life cycle of a bee she called students back to the carpet area. She explained that one student would be the queen bee laying eggs, that one group would build the hive around her, and that the other group would go looking for food (nectar). She also told students that when they found food, they had to use gestures to get the other bees attention and get them all to the food in order to bring it back to the queen. She further went on to explain that bees communicate thought movements (dancing). This was such a great interactive way to teach this concept an the kids loved it. I have attached some photos below.
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