Literacy Week:
PLEASE make sure to have your child wear their pajamas, a stuffy and bring a favourite book to school on Thursday, January 22nd.
WRITING
We are focusing on improving the quality of our sentences by thinking about describing words. We have begun the conversation around verbs and nouns and identifying them in our work. Once we have found our noun, we are using 'Scoop Up' words to add details!
Here is an example of what we are thinking about!
We have begun posters where we are adding word that could enhance the words: Cold, Hot and Light. These words correspond to our Science: Hot and Cold Temperatures unit as well as our Arctic Stories.
Arctic Stories
We read 'The Sky Sisters' by Jan Waboose and had a great conversation about the Northern Lights. Often the Auroras have a magical quality to them and are explained in many different ways as a way of knowing in Arctic communities. In 'The Sky Sisters', the lesson was about patience, and appreciating the journey and not just the destination. Students were asked to consider if the Sisters were bored waiting for the Northern Lights? Why or Why not? What adventures happened along the way? What did they and experience? Smell and hear? Why is this important? Did the author want us to think about these things?
PLEASE make sure to have your child wear their pajamas, a stuffy and bring a favourite book to school on Thursday, January 22nd.
WRITING
We are focusing on improving the quality of our sentences by thinking about describing words. We have begun the conversation around verbs and nouns and identifying them in our work. Once we have found our noun, we are using 'Scoop Up' words to add details!
Here is an example of what we are thinking about!
We have begun posters where we are adding word that could enhance the words: Cold, Hot and Light. These words correspond to our Science: Hot and Cold Temperatures unit as well as our Arctic Stories.
Arctic Stories
We read 'The Sky Sisters' by Jan Waboose and had a great conversation about the Northern Lights. Often the Auroras have a magical quality to them and are explained in many different ways as a way of knowing in Arctic communities. In 'The Sky Sisters', the lesson was about patience, and appreciating the journey and not just the destination. Students were asked to consider if the Sisters were bored waiting for the Northern Lights? Why or Why not? What adventures happened along the way? What did they and experience? Smell and hear? Why is this important? Did the author want us to think about these things?
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