Olympics and No Buses x 2!!!

This was a very short week so...a very short post. With Family Day on Monday, buses having been cancelled on Tuesday and Friday, and having been away on Thursday, it was a busy week of some unproductivity. 

On Tuesday and Friday, the students who were present worked on any unfinished work. We spent a lot of time reviewing 2-digit and 3-digit addition with regrouping and getting in some extra practice. Most seem to understand it quite well. Hopefully that understanding extends to subtraction with regrouping. I think seeing how to do it with virtual manipulatives on the SMARTBOARD has made a difference. 

On Thursday I was away for doctors' appointments while the students participated in the Amherstview Olympics. It was perfect mild weather and they got to enjoy the snow before all the rain we got on Friday turned everything to ice, slush or puddles. 

On Friday we watched a YouTube video about how students in isolated regions of Nepal make their way to/from school. The students were very interested and weren't too overwhelmed by the vocabulary and the variety of French accents that they heard throughout the film. We had a great discussion comparing going to school here with going to school in Nepal. 

And we managed to fit in a little Olympic hockey to see Canada and go on to the gold/silver final.  A nice quiet week before reports go home on Monday. 

Watching the film about Nepal on the SMARTBOARD