Wednesday, March 15th 2023

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Hello! 

Today we:

  • did our word work activities
  • discussed the most commonly used letters in the English language (it was a very good discussion about why students thought that) -- Students! Don't forget to ask your parents/family about what they think the most common letters are!
  • practiced volleyball skills in gym
  • practiced our basic math facts
  • practiced 3 digit by 2 digit multiplication (ex: 345 x 12)
  • did reading and literacy centres
  • learned about paragraph writing (we looked at books and found different types of paragraphs, and learned about how to combine writing into multiple paragraphs
  • played literacy games
  • continued to learn about the history of Chinese immigrants/Chinese heritage in Canada (this is part of our social studies curriculum.

Some photos from today:

Learning how to bump in volleyball:


Learning about multi paragraph writing:


Playing literacy games:



The following pictures are ideas for monuments/park redesigns for our social studies project (in the maker space):













 

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