WHAT WE'RE PRESENTLY LEARNING...

(from the Ontario Curriculum Documents)


LITERACY:

READING: - to reflect on and identify our strengths as readers as well as

areas for improvement.
- read and demonstrate an understanding of a variety of
literary, graphic, and informational texts, using a range of
strategies to construct meaning.
- use knowledge of words and cueing systems to read fluently
- recognize a variety of text forms, text features, and stylistic
elements and demonstrate understanding of how they help
communicate meaning.

WRITING: - to generate ideas about a potential topic, using a variety of

strategies and resources.
- to identify what strategies they found most helpful before,
during, and after writing and what steps they can take to
improve as writers.
- describe, with prompting by the teacher, how some of their 
                 skills in listening, speaking, reading, viewing, and  
                 representing help in their development as writers.

ORAL COMMUNICATION: to demonstrate an understanding of

appropriate listening behaviours by using active listening

strategies in order to contribute meaningfully and work

constructively in groups.

MEDIA LITERACY: to identify the purpose and intended audience of some

media texts.

MATH: a) to extend repeating, growing, and shrinking number patterns.

b) to identify, extend, and create a repeating pattern involving two

attributes, using a variety of tools.

c) to count forward and backward by 1’s, 2’s, 5’s, 10’s, and 100’s from
various starting points.

SCIENCE: Strong and Stable Structures