While we are eagerly awaiting for spring's return, we have been working hard in Room 7! Our Enduring Understanding for February was "Friendship & Kindness." Now our Enduring Understandings for March and April are "Mindfulness & Wellbeing." Here's what we've been up to: ELA: We have been finishing up our Drama/Dramatic Play unit (ELA Outcomes 5.1 and 5.2)! First we played with costumes and enjoyed pretending to be other people. Next, we worked together to build a Friendship Day reader's theatre script. Then we practised and practised, and then we filmed it. KL and SP presented it at the Friendship Day Assembly on February 28. Well done, everyone! We are so proud of all of our courageous performers. We will be finishing up our Drama unit with a Three Little Pigs reader's theatre performance (ask your child which character they are playing!). Once our Drama unit is done, we will begin our Poetry unit (ELA Outcome 2.3). In addition to our ELA units, we have begun a levelled-reading and word work program. Every day, we spend some time reading or doing our word work! Math/Science: For Science, we have been doing a Senses unit (Science Outcome 1D). We are using our "Senses" inquiry as a springboard into developing our sensory vocabulary (ELA Outcome 2.4), as well as doing some work with Statistics & Probability (Math Outcome for grades 2 & 3). So far, we have built a graph to represent how many people see a duck versus a rabbit in the classic optical illusion. We have also been privileged to have Mr Banke join our class for some work with Sphero robots! We have begun to experiment with how we can talk to the Spheros using our iPads-- we've tried using a remote control interface as well as drawing a picture, and the Sphero traces our drawing. The next step will be to try our hand at some coding. Phys Ed: We have been working on ball skills (tossing and catching, rolling, and passing in a group), and now we are starting to experiment with different ways to travel (different jumps and hops). In addition, the Room 7 students set an intention each day to run a certain number of laps, then they follow through on their goals in the gym. Social Studies: Our Social Studies work winds through all of our classroom programming. Our main focus is "Social Participation as a Democratic Practise" (SS Program of Studies, front matter). We spend a lot of time working on cooperation, consensus-building, and problem-solving throughout each day. Thanks for taking the time to read about our adventures in Room 7! Dates to Remember: March 23: NO CLASSES March 26-30: Spring Break April 2: NO CLASSES April 3: Classes resume April 19: Student-led conferences (evening) April 20: Student-led conferences (afternoon)
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