Week 8 in Portable 2

Friday, October 26, 2018

We just finished week eight in portable two and here is a bit of what’s been going on:

Visual Art and Media Literacy –  The Royal Canadian Legion hosts a nationwide poster contest in honour of Remembrance Day each year. We reviewed their judging criteria for an effective poster and started to design our Remembrance Day Posters this past week.

Read Aloud of the Week – Each week, we have a different read aloud that we focus on in our class. This past week, we focused on a non-fiction book that taught us about a famous poem, In Flanders Fields.

Writing – We continued learning about paragraph writing. This past week’s focus was learning about the four basic purposes for writing (Expository – Writing to Inform the Audience, Descriptive – Writing to Create a Picture in the Audience’s Mind, Persuasive – Writing to State an Opinion and Persuade the Audience, Narrative – Writing to Tell the Audience a Story).

Math – We have a booklet in our desk called, Working with Numbers. We take time to work in this booklet each day to build our number sense in a variety of ways.

Input/Output Machines – Students from Mrs. Stronks’ class came by to challenge us with the input/output machines they invented. A number goes in the machine, something happens to the number while it is inside and then the number comes out. We enjoyed seeing the creativity and figuring out what happens to the number when it goes into the machine. For example, the number 2 goes in the machine and a 4 comes out. Then, number 6 goes in the machine and a 12 comes out. Finally, a number 10 goes in the machine and a 20 comes out. That means the machine must be a “times two” machine. Every number that goes in, gets multiplied by two and then it comes out.

Mrs. Pellazzarri’s Visit – Mrs. Pellazzarri (Child and Youth Worker) came by to teach us about Cooperative Group Learning.

The First ROAR Assembly – Each month, grades 4-8 students gather in the gym for a ROAR assembly. At the assembly, Teachers recognize students for positive character traits and they take a ROAR certificate home.

If you have any questions, comments, or concerns please feel free to email me at julie.pragnell@granderie.ca OR call me at school: 519-443-8942.

-Mrs. Julie Pragnell