Only 6 students?!?

I really didn't expect to start back in the New Year with only 6 students. But buses were cancelled and Kingston seemed to have quite a few weather warnings on the go. So we had a quiet day with lots of review and time for me to work with those students one on one on catch up work, especially in math. I spent quite awhile on Monday night trying to find parents on Facebook in order to remind them that our class was skating on Tuesday. We ended up having music on Tuesday morning since we would be skating in the afternoon. So, no ateliers until Wednesday. But then, it was right back into the swing of it.

Catching up and working on art

In language, the grade twos reviewed the "è" and "é" sounds in "Le secret" and "Le bébé". The grade threes are working on the "il/ol/ul" sounds in "Mathilde et le mystère des feux follets" and will continue to do so for a couple of days next week. We finished up our school themed poems for shared reading. 

The students enjoyed the new games and activities in the Reading and Writing ateliers. And I even got a chance to get a couple more GB+ reading assessments done. 

Reading Bingo Game

Guided Reading with Science booklets

Independent Writing of Monster stories

Writing secret messages

In math, we began our new unit on 2-dimensional shapes and 3-dimensional figures. There were several new activities in the ateliers that the students enjoyed exploring. Problem-solving has focused on geometry as well with that group working with Mrs. McLaren while I run a guided math group. It's great because they are actually getting two guided math groups within an math ateliers cycle. What a great start to January!

More math fact practice

Geometry problem solving

Guided Math with Mme

Making/identifying 2-d shapes