Refreshed and Back at It!

It's been a great week back! Everyone seemed refreshed and ready to get back to work. I was hoping to post sooner but was busy making my oldest son's birthday cake last night and taking care of my youngest son this morning whose sick. Finally a quiet moment as Sammy is at a birthday party and Max is asleep in my arms! So blogging on.... The grade threes worked on the ic, ac, oc, uc, and ec sounds in "Un drôle de docteur". The grade twos did the ul sound in " La libellule" and the ar sound in "Gaspar". Our newest poems were "Il était une feuille" and "Le bouleau". 

In guided reading, we worked on comprehension strategies and had some great scientific discussions about the properties of liquids. A new reading game to improve sight word recognition and fluency was introduced. The students had to practise reading word lists as fast as they could several times with no errors. If they made a mistake, they would have to start over. 

We continued with some grammar activities. While the grade threes worked on reading comprehension  with a parent volunteer, the grade twos practised breaking up groups of words into sentences and ensuring each sentence had capitals/periods. We did one on the SMARTBOARD and then they did one in their notebooks. 

Many of the students began a new writing piece, an explanation about what their favourite subject in school was and why. Although some wanted to put recess or playing, we had a discussion about what a school subject was. In another centre, the grade threes practised cursive writing while the grade twos created stories to share orally, using flash cards to help them. 

There were some new games for the math centres too! The students had to find hidden addition, like hidden words but with addition hidden instead of words. There was also a game to figure out missing terms, as some students continue to struggle with this algebraic concept. The word problems were a bit challenging for the grade twos as they struggled with the difference between "has this many more than" and "how many more than". In French, the wording is very similar and they are used to doing subtraction whenever they see "more than". But on rare occasions, the question requires addition. 

I hope everyone is having a great first spring weekend, despite the snow!  😎