Open House

It's been a busy week. The students have been working hard to complete their draft and good copies of the posters we put up for Open House. They were very excited to have their work on display for parents! It was great meeting all of the parents tonight. I am sorry there were a few that were unable to attend. Hopefully I can meet everyone else soon. It was a long day for me but very enjoyable. Also, I volunteered at the Book Fair which was a great opportunity to reconnect with former students and their families. Some of the children seemed to enjoy their Open House tasks that I had for them, while others were a bit shy, especially when it came to introducing their parents to me. 

Open House

We are continuing to work through the sounds in our daily comptines. This week we have done the sounds "j", "k", "l", and "m". We will do "n" tomorrow. The grade threes have been working on the story "Peureux, peureux!" which covers the "eu" sound. This week we also have also been looking at a compte-rendu (recount) as a shared reading. Next week the students will begin to work on rough drafts of their own recounts of what they did over the summer. I began doing reading assessments with the children. I've gotten through about a third of the class so far and hope to read with the rest over the next couple of weeks. Once I've read with everyone, I will get our guided reading groups going and I'll be doing more small group instruction. 

Reading assessment 

In math, we began looking at ways to represent numbers. The students have been doing hands on activities, where they are using hundreds, tens, and ones to represent numbers. Written work has focused on estimating, grouping objects in order to count them, and making pictures of hundreds, tens, and ones to represent numbers. We've also talked about being careful as ten ones need to be converted to a ten and ten tens into a hundred. 

The students continued to work on their name pattern art. Most got to the point today where they began to add colour. We haven't done any social studies this week as this week's focus was science. We took some time to discuss scientific thinking and using all of senses to help us understand what we are learning about. The grade threes are doing stable structures and the grade twos are doing movement. Luckily these units have some overlap so we'll be able to do a lot of activities together.