This week, we have focused a lot of our class work around the book "The Mitten" by Jan Brett. We began by watching the story in video form, and then read the book a short while later.
We began an art project where we designed our own mittens. We observed the mittens of a few students and noticed something - that each pair of mittens are an exact match! We discussed the word "symmetrical" and what would need to happen to make sure that our mittens matched. The students worked hard to make sure that their mittens were symmetrical and did their best drawing and colouring!
Today, we began a new writing activity. We each wrote 5 clues about ourselves that we will attach to the mittens, and as a class we will try to guess who made the mittens based on the clues. We wrote our first draft today, and will be starting our good copy of our clues in the coming days. Our focus remains on proper use of punctuation (commas and periods), capital letters, and juicy (descriptive) words.
The students also began to colour their own versions of the animals from the story. In groups of three, they will begin to practice re-telling the story and present their versions to the class on Friday!
The students have really enjoyed reading our new winter books during quiet reading and partner reading times.
Reminders
The winter celebration is coming up, and our class will be performing on Monday, December 18th @ 1:30 pm. Families are more than welcome to attend.
The deadline to return library books to the school is this Friday, December 15th. Please send them back to school with your child.
