Please listen to video below to hear one of our stories.
Tuesday 25 November 2014
Writer's Workshop: Authors as Mentors
Our students have finished publishing their second story of the year! Our most recent writing unit focused on using mentor texts to improve our personal narratives. We read many books by Tomie dePaola and learned a variety of techniques which we can use to make our stories more effective. Our stories will be posted on the hallway bulletin board next week. Please stop by to leave a comment on your child's story!
Please listen to video below to hear one of our stories.
Please listen to video below to hear one of our stories.
Friday 7 November 2014
Guest Poets: Michael Salinger & Sara Holbrook
This week we had the pleasure of having Michael and Sara lead our Grade 1 and 2 students through two poetry workshops. We learned that poetry is like a snapshot we make in our minds. We observe our subject and create our poems from the many details we have noticed.
Our first workshop focused on writing a feeling poem with nouns and verbs. Students each chose a feeling and wrote showing sentences to describe that feeling. During our second workshop we linked our social studies curriculum to poetry by creating a class poem about good citizenship.
Next week, you will find your child’s poem posted on the hall bulletin board. Until then, please watch the video below to hear a fantastic poem, about being silly, from one of our students!
Michael Salinger's Blog: A small school that is big on learning.
Our first workshop focused on writing a feeling poem with nouns and verbs. Students each chose a feeling and wrote showing sentences to describe that feeling. During our second workshop we linked our social studies curriculum to poetry by creating a class poem about good citizenship.
Next week, you will find your child’s poem posted on the hall bulletin board. Until then, please watch the video below to hear a fantastic poem, about being silly, from one of our students!
Click on the link below to read what Michael has to say about PRIS.
Michael Salinger's Blog: A small school that is big on learning.
Wednesday 5 November 2014
Social Studies: Working Together
In our current social studies unit, we have been learning about how people live and work together effectively. We have been studying cooperation, fairness, responsibility, causes of disagreements, and solutions to disagreements.
This past week, our students brainstormed the various ways in which we can be responsible. We completed an activity called Read, Think, Draw. During this activity, students listened to a read aloud about responsibility. We then stop at specified points in the book where students thought about how they can be responsible and sketched a quick picture to record their ideas. We reflected on how we could be responsible at school, at home, with our friends, and in our community.
Some of the ideas our students came up with included: packing our own bags, opening a door for someone, helping your mom at home, being quiet in school, cleaning up our own mess, doing our homework, and helping friends and siblings,
Here is an important reminder from one of our groups about how we can be responsible each day when getting ready.
This past week, our students brainstormed the various ways in which we can be responsible. We completed an activity called Read, Think, Draw. During this activity, students listened to a read aloud about responsibility. We then stop at specified points in the book where students thought about how they can be responsible and sketched a quick picture to record their ideas. We reflected on how we could be responsible at school, at home, with our friends, and in our community.
Some of the ideas our students came up with included: packing our own bags, opening a door for someone, helping your mom at home, being quiet in school, cleaning up our own mess, doing our homework, and helping friends and siblings,
Here is an important reminder from one of our groups about how we can be responsible each day when getting ready.
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