Rosscarrock students will be participating in “The 12 Days of Fitness” challenge. Every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday students will learn a new skill and participate in a rigorous workout with either Mrs. Rowein or Mrs. Fraser. This will help students learn about ways to keep their bodies fit and healthy. Please have students dress in comfortable clothes and have them bring a water bottle to school.
In music, students listened to music that evoked feelings of happiness. In their visual journals, they drew what represented happiness to them as the songs made them feel this emotion. Some students drew rainbows to represent the colours that make them happy, some students drew their family members or pets, and some students even drew a happy memory! As students are learning that music can represent emotion, we are learning how to recognize and name that emotion so that we are able to respond to music meaningfully. Afterwards, students studied the letter Pp. When we say this letter, we make a small explosion of air. Students held their hands in front of their mouths so that they could feel the sound this letter makes. After practicing writing our letter Pp, we brainstormed words that start with Pp and words that have the Pp sound within them. Again, being able to hear specific letter sounds not only at the beginning, but in the middle of words, helps us tremendously with our reading and writing. Students worked on reading their letter Pp books to classmates and have brought this home with them today. Please be sure to continue practicing your student's letter books at home. In math, grade one students worked on decoding images based on their knowledge of number order. Once finished their workbook, students were challenged with an even harder image that required an understanding of the order of numbers 0-10. A good way to practice to this skill at home is to build physical number lines with your student. Have the numbers from 0-10 (or higher!) written on post it notes or any other paper, mix them up, and then have your child place them in order. Grade twos developed their own mathematical word addition problems. Grade two students focused on using the vocabulary word "altogether" to form the question within their addition problem. For example: There are 5 happy faces and 4 sad faces. How many faces are there altogether? Students are not practicing their addition when using word problems, but their ability to count objects as well. After silent reading time, we moved on to science. Today, students learned about the differences between living and non living things. As a class we discussed what makes something living ( it eats, uses air, can talk/make sound, if it's an animal it will blink, it can move by itself, is born or planted) and non living ( is manufactured, cannot move unless built to do so, does not eat, does not breathe). Students were then tasked to find examples of living and non living things in our school. They were able to determine that the plants in the hallway are living and that the rug on our floor is non living, for example. Ask your student to give you examples of living and non living things! Remember, Parent Teacher Interviews starts tomorrow and there is no school on Friday, November 22!
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