We also completed the HLAT, which is a writing assessment used to guide our teaching. The students had 15 minutes to complete a planning page and 45 minutes to complete the writing portion. The topic was...Think about a friend or person you respect, or who demonstrates kindness.
We spent the week doing some grammar activities. Our focus this week was on Subject and Predicate. The subject is the person or thing that is doing the action. The predicate is the part of the sentence that contains the action. Both elements are the key to a good sentence.
We also started a new program on the chromebooks. Typing Club is a program used to encourage the students to use the proper hand placement on the keyboard. This program teaches the correct fingers to use for each letter, with individual directions and activities to complete before moving on to the next set of letters.
We are continuing through our Patterns and Algebra unit. This week we worked on extending a pattern using a rule. The students also had to identify the rule in a group of numbers and create their own pattern and pattern rule.
We also spent some time playing some math games like Addition War and Soldier Salute.
In Social, we completed our Mapping unit this week. We reviewed how to read a legend and spent some time learning about Latitude and Longitude; the vertical and horizontal lines that divide the earth into sections. These lines cross forming a grid, which GPS uses to find a location. These lines are also used on maps, globes and in atlases. This is the video we watched to help explain Latitude and Longitude. We also completed an activity where the students found points on the grid.
We had our first Healthy Hearts movement break to GoNoodle in the classroom. The students all participated with the videos.
For P.E. we played some cooperation and locomotion games. Worm Race was a favourite.
REMINDER: Picture Day is on Wednesday, September 25th.
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