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The Story of Ruby and Alice
Bob and Jeff's Problem
Friendly But Fierce
Ted the Turtle Makes Friends
Throughout the year, we’ve been developing our Core Competencies and have taken many opportunities to identify those Core Competencies and discuss them, recognizing them and highlighting them when we’ve seen them in action. We’ve also used some direct instruction to build upon our understanding. What does it look like? What does it sound like? Although all Core Competencies are a regular part of our classroom, in the third term we have focused on Communication. Our specific focus: communication during our novel study Book Talks. In the beginning, we discussed the skills that we use when communicating and we shared how we could transform our Book Talks from a sharing session to a discussion. We brainstormed different things we could do to add more to our Book Talks, including asking each other questions or building upon what others share. Because students came up with the ideas on their own, they became much more engaged and the discussions more meaningful. We followed up each Book Talk with a personal reflection on our contribution to the discussion and what we could do differently next time. By the end, we were ready to self-assess. We’ve been using different units to find the perimeter and the area of different shapes… and we have loved the hands-on learning. Although we enjoyed using pattern blocks, square units and square centimeters, we loved the measurement work involved with metre sticks! We had loads of fun drawing quadrilaterals on the concrete and using the meter sticks to find the perimeter and the area. Remember how we were working on picture books about healthy relationships? Check out how some of them turned out:
Click on the links to read the stories in Microsoft Sway: The Story of Ruby and Alice Bob and Jeff's Problem Friendly But Fierce Ted the Turtle Makes Friends After learning about different forms of energy, we used our creative and critical thinking while designing robots that transform energy. It's hard to believe that we're in the final weeks of the school year. We've still got some great learning happening...but know that the end is just around the corner.
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