Class pictures will be taken on September 21st! In the meantime, here is a graph we made of our class. I think it looks just like us :)
The students drew pictures of themselves and we learned how to sort information and why this is so useful. We have investigated how to read and create 'pictographs' as well as understand horizontal and vertical graphs'. A big skill is learning how to neatly draw tally marks.
We use this little poem:
1,2,3,4
Number 5 shuts the door,
6,7,8,9
Number 10 draws the line
This helps us create our tallies so we can count by 5's easily and accurately. Ensuring accuracy has been a big focus for our class. Learning to colour the bars neatly and accurately as well as making sure all our information has the same number (e.g., "I asked 10 people information so 10 squares should show on my graph") is important.
Raz Kids, Book -flix and Dreambox
I have recently sent notes home and information to you about the on-line programs that are paid for by the Halton Board of Education. The students have been taught in class how to use these programs. I will update Raz kids books to the correct levels once I finish determining reading levels. In the meantime, the whole 'bookroom' is open for your convenience.
Did you know....
These programs provide excellent feedback to both the teacher and to you...the parents. Please take advantage of the offer to log in and look up your child's progress. I can already see that I need to do some lessons on 'inferring' based on my students ability to answer those type of questions when reading. I will post more on this subject later in the year. If you are wondering what this reading skill is about, I wrote about it here previously: Inferring reading strategy
A final note: Things may go quiet (for what I hope) will be a short while on this blog due to 'technical difficulties'. Know that your students are cared for and will be using their agenda for communication between home and school. Thank you for your understanding.
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