Artist in Residence, Writing about an Insect using Action Ant Verbs and Juicy June Bug Adjectives, Math Problems Solving and Triangle Math (Number Bond) Addition!

Reminder:

There is no school tomorrow Friday November 1st as it is a system wide professional development day.

Artist in Residence

We are so lucky to have completed our first three Artist in Residene sessions.

First we learned about some helpful and harmful prairie insects and how one can be a pest and one acts as helpful by eating those pests!

We made backgrounds using paint and a paint knife (cardboard) to add texture to our backgrounds.

Our background represents either a Canola Field, A Potato Crop, or a Cereal Crop.


Ask me which background I chose?

Second we got to look at picture of the insect that would live in our backgrounds and decide if we wanted to draw the parasitic one or the helpful one!


We then practiced drawing only the big parts of our insect like the Head, Thorax, Abdomen and Wings. We picked a paint colour that would contrast with our background trying to make our insect POP!

Next we got to add interesting colours and designs to our insects. We got to draw their details such as legs, antennae, and wings. We used differnt colours for these parts. 

Our last session with the Artist is on Tuesday November 5th from 9:30 am until 10:30 am. If you are able to volunteer please email me at imlagrana@cbe.ab.ca. 


Literacy

This week in literacy we have been working on Making Connections when we read. This week we focused on Text-Self connections:

Please practice this strategy at home with your Home Reading books. We will continue to work on making connections next week.

Writing

This week we have been working on writing descriptive double scoop sentences about an insect.

First we filled out a bubble mind map with all of the juicy, powerful adjectives that describe our insect:

Next we used sentence starters and our brainstormed words to come up with powerful sentences:

Today we made a bubble map for Verbs. We had to imagine how our insect moves? 

We will then write Action sentences for our insects:

Next week we will put all of these sentences together to create a descriptive paragraph. We will then edit our work using the COPS strategies from last week in order to create a good copy of writing. 


Math

In math we have been working on solving a word problem using CUBES as a step by step guide:

We are working in groups to solve the Candy Conundrum!!

We are also learning a new math strategy for adding double digits together. It is the number bond strategy or Traingle Math!!

We practiced this strategy yesterday and today as a way to combine numbers more efficiently after exploding them! 

Ask me to share this strategy with you at home!!