This past week, students engaged in a variety of thinking tasks over Math, Social Studies, and Language Arts. They worked collaboratively to come up with solutions to the task, and reflected on both their learning and the learning of their peers (see the bottom of the post for an example of one of the tasks they did).
In Social Studies, the students finished up their their focus on fossils and moved on to learning about the history of Alberta's First Peoples through artifacts and oral stories. They researched some of the specific tribes who's traditional territory runs through Alberta. In our writing unit, the students continued to explore different structures and methods for organizing the information they are intending to teach.
The students also started using the MyBlueprint platform to record their weekly math journals. In these "Metacognition Journals", they are prompted to answer 3 questions: What are you learning about? What have you done to check your understanding (and how did it go)? How do you feel about your learning? This will be a weekly task for the students to document their thinking and guide their future learning, and you can access these reflections (check your email for an invitation).
Some notes on our Learning this week:
Writing
Strategies for saying more about your topic
Connecting info within and across chapters
Information Writing Benchmark #2
Reading
Read-Aloud: Friendship unit (continued)
Math
Check your email for an invite to view your child's MyBlueprint portfolio where they share their thinking and understanding in mathematics
