Shared Writing and Getting Crafty!

We took a break from centres this week to get further ahead with our big writing piece and to finish up money in math. The grade twos looked at the comptines "Gloria" and "À la plage" with the gl/pl sounds. The grade threes finished up Sophie la photographe. They are getting so much better at answering questions thoroughly! We did another spring poem as a shared reading. It had many challenging words to decode this week but they were great and have come so far with decoding since September. 

We read several examples of "directives" last week and this week. We spent some time over two mornings doing shared writing of this. We then used those examples as shared readings as well. They understand very well the four parts of this type of writing (titre, objectif/but, matériel, and étapes). On Wednesday, we brainstormed ideas they could use to write their own instructions and they completed a plan. We will continue with a rough draft next week. While most of the grade threes were gone yesterday to a road race, the rest of the class worked in groups of four to group write the instructions for how to play snakes and ladders. We had the game out so they could go look at it and think about the steps they needed to include. 

Shared writing #1

Shared writing #2

Brainstorming ideas for their independent writing

Working in groups to write

Today the grade threes went to M. Virtue's room to do a practice EQAO session. This gave them the opportunity to get comfortable with their testing setting. While they were gone, the grade twos watched another part of the documentary "Chemins d'école". The first one we saw was on Nepal. The one we watched today was about Siberia. It ties in very nicely with the grade two social studies curriculum and really gives them a look at how other children in the world live. We had a gréât discussion about this afterward. 

There will be lots of things going on in the next while and the children will be very busy. Next week is Celebration of Dance, the grade threes will have track and field soon, there are more road races, and we still have two more big trips. Please check the agenda daily to stay in the know!

Have a great Mother's Day weekend! I hope all the moms enjoy the crafts/cards your children made. They worked very hard on them. 💐