October 30th - November 3rd

What Did Students Do?

With Halloween falling on Tuesday, it was a very exciting week! We did some great tasks combining our curriculum with Halloween concepts. To start, students wrote out the steps for the Five Little Pumpkins poem so they could lead a STEM Challenge with their Kinder buddies. Students led a challenge where Kinders built a bridge for five little pumpkins to sit on. Then the Kinders drew pictures to go along with the grade fours step-by-step writing. Students also did their own STEM Challenges; they built bone bridges, candy catapults, and pumpkin towers. Finally, we read the story Gustavo the Shy Ghost where students practiced their reading comprehension strategies. Then, they fine-tuned their procedural writing by explaining the steps to trick-or-treat, carve a jack-o-lantern, and draw a ghost.

Learning Outcomes:

English Language Arts and Literature

I can examine how the form and structure of texts supports the communication of ideas and information. 

I can write non-fiction text, including procedural writing.

Questions to Ask Your Child:

-How did you support your little buddy? (As the big buddies, we focused on being patient, supportive without doing the work for them, and modelling resiliency when things didn't work the first few tries)

-What is important about procedural writing? (detailed and specific)

Student Work:












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