Week 7: Retelling stories we know

October 21-25

This week students heard me read Brown Bear, Brown Bear What do you see? by Bill Martin Jr. and Eric Carle. Throughout the week we continued to review the sequence of the story, used pictures and a flannel board to retell the story. Oral story telling is an important literacy skill that builds fluency and vocabulary.

Students showed perseverance through colouring and cutting out the letter that their name begins with to place on our own Chicka Chicka Boom Boom tree. This work is part of our Alphabet inquiry and our unit on "I Am Unique."

We were visited by Ms. Watkins our Indigenous Education Learning Leader. She read a story called The Sharing Circle. Ask your child about the story and about how they felt about taking turns in our own sharing circle and how we could use this idea to solve problems.

Next week:

- Bat inquiry 

- Dice math game

- Orange/black day Oct. 31st

- No school on Friday, November 1st (Professional Development Day)