January 12 - 16

 Looking back at learning:

Phonics:

- We learned the long A sound.

- AY says "a" at the end of words (say, play).

-AI says "a" in the beginning and in the middle of words (brain, aim).

Writing:

- We finished up our informational writing on orca whales.

- Student used their jot notes to write 4 paragraphs sharing their new knowledge.

- They edited their work using an editing checklist to ensure capitals, periods, punctuation and spaces were accurate. 

Math: 

- We continued with our statistics unit this week.

- Students created and interpreted pictographs, dot plot graphs, and bar graphs to display and answer questions based on collected data.

- Students read "This Is How I Know" by Brittany Luby and explored how Indigenous people share information through oral stories and use the land for learning instead of traditional charts/graphs.

- Students learned how the "make ten" as a strategy to help them work through addition equations. 

Science:

- We focused our learning on sound energy.

-What is an artificial sound vs a natural sound.

- How to sound waves transfer?

- Sound reflects and absorbs (What materials reflect sound and what materials absorb materials?)