November 15-19th
Bonjour! Welcome back Mme Anderson's classroom blog.
Last week (Nov 8-11) we talked about Indigenous Veteran's Day and Veteran's Day. Students wrote "Postcards for Peace" to send to Veterans to thank them for their service and for protecting Canada. The students wrote some very beautiful and heartfelt messages. We also participated in École Tuscany's Remembrance Day Ceremony and held a moment of silence.
This week in math, we finished our work on increasing and decreasing patterns and began working on addition. We are focusing on how to carry over and line our numbers up. This is pulling from our previous work on place value. Next week we will begin working on subtraction and word problems.
We began talking about perspective while discussing our veterans and will continue to explore this deeper as the year goes on. To build on this, we created some "ant's eye view" art of a snowman.
In social studies we began creating our own imaginary countries. Each country had to have a capital city, at least two provinces, and each province was required to have a capital city. Students learned how to create their own legends and created their own descriptions of what went on in their countries. Grade 3s will continue to explore countries while Grade 4s explore the province of Alberta.
