Hello Parents and Guardians of rooms 9 and 10, 

Here are a few more pictures of our self portraits in the process of being completed.

 Room 9 - Self Portraits

 We are so proud of how our self portraits turned out. We added the hair and the clothing, and each one is a special work of art.

 We have been learning about "What is the Story?" and about our communities. Today we started our new art project of self portraits using plastercine.  It was fun to work with plastercline. We still need to add details such as hair, eye brows, and clothing, and we are very proud of our work.

 We have been working on writing sentences and adding juice words to our sentences. Juicy words describe things in our sentences so we have a better picture in our minds when we write. We use our drawings to help us, and we are using the Lively Letters to help us sound out words.

We circle the capital letters in green (green to start a sentence), and we circle the periods red (red to stop the sentence.)

 In math, our classes have been using a Beaded Number Line to count and make numbers. The beads are arranged in groups of ten, and there are 100 beads on this number line. When we use this number line, we can tell which number is closer to another number, and how many tens and ones are needed to make a number (Place Value). We also use the number line to count by 2s, 5s, and 10s - forwards and backwards.

 Hello Rooms 9 and 10,

We have just started working with graphs and data (information). By looking at a pictograph and a bar graph, we can make comparisons as to which amount is the largest, which amount is the smallest, and how much of an item we have.

The important question that we ask when we are discussing the information presented on graphs is: How do you know?  It is important for students to be able to explain their thinking and adjust their answers. This is how we learn.