Builders can work with others.

Room 3/4 has been working hard as builders and remembering all of the parts of a house. 

This week however, we also learned that builders can work with others. We discussed how the job of building a house is a lot of work and takes a lot of time and that builders must work with others in order to get the job done. 

To help us understand how to be a good builder and work with others, we used a target.

We decided that if we were fighting and not sharing, we are far from the target (on the red).

If we are building beside our peers, but not working together, we are close to the target (on the yellow).

If we are sharing and working with our peers on one house, we are on target (on the green).

I can work with others: 

Here are some images of our builders working together!



 
 
 

Being builders..

This week, students had the chance to practice being real builders in the classroom!

First, we used early reading skills to learn the steps a builder uses when building a house. Using the "My House" book, we followed a familiar pattern sentence that showed us the steps we needed to build a house and what the different parts of the house were called. 

Next, boys and girls were challenged to build their own houses using all of the parts of the house. Here is a look at their hard work as builders:

Students have been working on building their oral language first through growing their vocabulary by naming the parts of a house, and next by sharing with their teacher and peers by adding, "My house has a _____,"

At home, can practice naming the different parts of a house with your child and draw their attention to the beginning sounds they hear in those words, such as "d" for door. 

As the students built the parts of their house, teachers were busy capturing pictures. Those pictures are being added to a classroom book that we are going to call "My house" to use in the classroom library. Using this story, students will continue to build their understanding of pattern sentences by looking at pictures and the first letter to predict and decode words. 

The Family Book

After reading, "The Family Book" by Todd Parr and practicing drawing our families, boys and girls were inspired to use different coloured shapes to create the members in their family.

After building using shapes, students were encouraged to draw details that made members in their family special. 

 

Students are beginning to explore early literacy concepts by copying the words "My Family" and by writing the beginning sounds they hear in the words they are trying to write, such as "D" for Dad, "M" for Mom.