Week of June 5th

As part of our community walks we have started to discover the joins of nature journalling.  In doing so, we are continuing to discover how journaling in nature helps support our ability to pay attention to detail, boosts our creativity and inspires us to observe a location we have become familiar with.

 


This week and last, we revisited our unit on Data analysis. We spent time reviewing how to read and interpret information presented in the form of pictographs and bar graphs. We learned how to analyze the data presented in the graphs to solve one- and two-step word problems. We will also explore scales and scaled pictographs, and bar graphs. We discovered how to use multiplication and division skills to find the numbers represented on these scaled graphs. As a class, we collected data about a topic that interested us and created our bar graphs. In the following week, we will compare all three types of graphs: pictographs, bar graphs, and line plots ( dot plots) and solve story word problems with the information on the charts.  





As part of our community walks we have started to discover the joins of nature journalling.  In doing so, we are continuing to discover how journaling in nature helps support our ability to pay attention to detail, boosts our creativity and inspires us to observe a location we have become familiar with.


In literacy we have been learning how to summarize a fictional book. We have learned that the hardest part in summarising a story to determining what to leave out. To help support this process we have learned that most narratives can be retold using the frame: 

Someone, wanted, but, so, then. 



Calling all Volunteers!!! We would like to go on one last field trip on June 21st to Princess Island Park. If you have your criminal record check completed and can possibly join us please let me know. So far we don't have any volunteers and I would sure love to make this trip a success. 


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