March 11th, 2022

 Hello families,

Thank you for taking the time this week to meet and discuss your child's learning. It was great getting to talk to everyone and share the celebrations that are happening with each student. 

This week in the classroom, Our work in Social Studies focused on the Amazon rainforest, as it is a part of Peru's geographic regions. We learned about the importance of the rainforest and the danger that it is in if people do not take action to protect it. 

We also looked at the different layers of the rainforest and the different plants and animals that exist in each layer. Students selected an animal of the rainforest they were interested,  researched and recorded notes about this animal.

We also practiced creating realistic drawings of rainforest animals which we will use to create a layers of the rainforest collaborative art piece. 

I can explore the concept of Canada's roles and responsibilities in global citizenship in relation to communities in Peru.

This week Ms.Yasin's math group worked on the standard algorithm (or stacking) strategy for addition and subtraction. After exploring a variety of other in-depth strategies over the last month, students can now transfer that conceptual knowledge into this concise strategy for addition and subtraction. During warmups, students had fun transferring the algorithm strategy into mental math! Students also used their understandings of 10 more/less and 1 more/less to construct a 100 chart puzzle!