Snow Day and All

Despite being away on Monday at "Le Français en coeur" conference and Wednesday's snow day, it's been pretty busy. We began our second week of "ateliers". The grade twos did the "ou" and "on" sounds in the comptines "Tourlou" and "Gaston". The grade threes are working on the "ou" sound in the story "Le concours des fourrures". In guided reading, we began reading and working on non-fiction science booklets. We are continuing with descriptive writing in guided writing. Those who did not have any "Ketchup" work did a snowman retelling activity with a self-selected book at their level. 

I have been doing some more GB+ reading assessments to see how the students have been progressing since I first assessed them at the end of September/beginning of October. Although I have only gotten through about half the class so far, I'm very excited to see that mostly everyone has increased a couple of levels since then!

This week's shared poems

The students are still finishing up some graphing activities in guided math; however we began a unit on linear measurement this week. The grade twos will use various non-standard units and some standard units to measure, while the grade threes will use the standard units of cm, m, and km in the math activities. 

I'm very excited that our SMARTBOARD has finally arrived. It's halfway set up so we can't quite use it yet. The students were great and showed excellent flexibility when we had to move around from place to place in the school on Tuesday when they were installing it and we had to be out of the classroom. We still managed to complete our problems of the day and our math ateliers while moving from the gym, to Mme Anne's room, to Mme Judd's room. A little more installation was done today but it's still not quite ready. The projector is powerless until an electrician can come run power to it and the speakers are on backorder and will be installed sometime over the next few weeks. I've had to move a few things around, particularly the book case with the class library to make things a little more accessible. I'm really looking forward to learning how to use it and all the great things we'll be able to do with it. 

Have a great weekend!