September5
Welcome back!
I’ve only worked with the students for two days and I already feel like I know them very well! We’re going to be a great team this year!
Just a short post to let you know what we’re working on in our subjects right now:
Literacy: We are working on establishing our Literacy Structure which is based on the About The Daily 5 in 117. We are also re-building stamina and independence for reading and writing. I will begin conferring with students this week and the students will complete their first School Division Writing Assessment (RAD) in the coming weeks.
Numeracy: We are working on our Working with Large Numbers unit. This week we will focus on place value to the trillions! I have also introduced the students to Prodigy Math online. This is a program that will allow me to assign individual practice to students as needed as well as to use it for assessment and identify areas that need extra assistance.
Science: Diversity of Living things will be our focus for the first unit.
Social Studies: We will focus on Interdependence, examining the local, indigenous, and global interactions and interdependence of individuals, societies, cultures and nations. We will specifically work with countries which border the Atlantic Ocean and our Indigenous Peoples.
Health: As a precursor to everything in our year, we are working on a mini-unit around Mindset and changing our thinking to be more flexible and resilient with our learning and decisions.
Ms Bechard will be the students’ Phys Ed teacher and Mr Kardynal will be their French teacher. Ms Machnaik will continue to teach them music.
We will utilize Pearson e-Texts this year but there appears to be some password/access issues that we are currently trying to resolve.
Please keep an eye on the Google Calendar on this blog. I will put all important information on that site.
I am looking forward to an amazing year!
Mrs. C.