And March Break is Here!

It was such a productive week, even though it was short. I gave the class a break from homework as I had several students leaving early for trips. We finished up our cycle of ateliers and had some time for catching up on some unfinished stuff too!

In language, the grade threes finished up the story "La capture de l'adversaire". They struggled a bit with the comprehension questions as the story is about playing a video game and was in a first person voice. They weren't used to answering questions as if they were in the story. The grade twos did the "elle" sound in "La ritournelle" and the "ile" sound in "Le bibliophile". We read a digital story, "Bienvenue en Arctique", each day this week as a shared reading. After much discussion with their table groups, the students did an independent reading response about what adaptations the animals had to enable them to survive in the Arctic. When they were done, we took up the question as a class and completed a very detailed answer. The students then discussed how their responses compared go the one we did as a class and what they need to do to improve their answers. We spent some time discussing the need to go back into the text, page by page, to extract the pertinent information. 

In math, we continued with 2- and 3-digit addition and subtraction but mostly focused on subtraction. While the students were doing catch-up work and math work, I had the chance to get through lots of GB+ assessments. There were lots of great jumps in reading levels for many of the students I read with. I still have 5 grade three students left to read with but will hopefully get those assessments done the week we get back. Look for new reading levels in the Book-in-a-bag coming home. 

On Thursday afternoon, we moved all of the desks to the side and Mme Judd's class joined us to begin practising for "Celebration of Dance". There are lots of songs/dances to practise over the next little while before many of the classes at Amherstview join over 3000 other students in the region in May for this wonderful activity. We will continue to practise one dance a week until we go, more if we get an indoor recess. 

Have a great March Break!