Learning to Blog and More Cancelled Buses

This week we had yet another day with cancelled buses. The students even started blogging!

In language, the students reviewed the "ul" sound and spellings in "La libellule". We also read the poem "Le bonhomme de neige".

The reading strategies we practised this week focused on decoding skills, ensuring that they read carefully look at both the beginning and ending of words and how to stretch out sounds then reread them.

For our read aloud, we read "Le loup qui cherchait une amoureuse". The class found it very funny!

In our guided writing groups, the students who had finished writing their two "messages du jour" got to put that skill into practice in our new class blog. We are using the Seesaw application. I began a class blog and now the students will be adding their own posts in a writing centre. The blog is private so the only way it is accessible is by invite only. A letter will be going home soon explaining how you can access your own child's portfolio. This portfolio will show the posts that they create and any photos of work that they would like to add to their portfolio for you to see. I will send the letters once all groups have had a couple of turns trying out posting messages.

Seesaw

Our class blog with my first post to get the students started

Learning to blog

Look at all the writing from one student during our 15 minute work on writing centre!

In math we focused on subtraction of two-digit and three-digit numbers. We spent some time on how subtraction looks with base 10 blocks as it's very different from adding with the blocks. We also used the virtual manipulative website on the smartboard as another centre.

Subtracting on the smartboard 

Playing Zap! Subtraction

More Zap!

In science the students are working on their unit projects. The grade threes are showing the differences between natural and man-made structures. The grade twos are finding examples of the different types of simple machines that we learned about.

In social studies the grade threes learned about mining and tourism in Ontario. The grade twos completed activities on Egypt and learned about how Valentine's Day began and why we celebrate it today.

In physical education we are practising basketball skills. This week we practised the bounce pass, the chest pass, and dribbling.

Please remember that the "book-in-a-bag" is due back every Thursday for exchange. These are not books that we keep in the class so please return it on time for exchange, otherwise it will be the following week when it gets exchanged. 

Have a great weekend!