I really enjoyed the holidays but it's great to get back in the class with the children when everyone is refreshed from the break! Unfortunately with the cold we had this week, they didn't get outside a whole lot. But with all the snow we got yesterday, they'll be able to enjoy winter outdoor recesses a whole lot more.
We started the new year with a shared reading about the new year, "Le premier jour de l'an". We practiced the "z" sound in "Onze oiseaux" and looked at the various spellings of the "an" sound (an, en, am, em) in "Le printemps". We were back at our reading and writing centres this week with several new activities added to both sets of centres. We will continue with this cycle of centres next week as we didn't get far with me being away sick for two days.
We also started a new cycle of math centres with some new geometry and number sense games. We are just finishing up 2-d shapes and will be focusing more on 3-d solids next week. I have several great SMARTBOARD lessons planned to help the class to really get into the concepts of faces, edges (arêtes), and vertices (sommets). For our computer games, the class will start using their Prodigy accounts in class to master the different skills that I have set games up for. Don't forget that I have sent their logins and passwords for them to access this resource from home. If it has been misplaced, let me know and I can write it in the agenda.
We spent some time on group problem solving where the students were given a problem to solve in small groups. There were several possible answers so all the groups were successful at finding and sharing strategies that helped them find a correct answer or answers with their group.
In Social Studies, the class learned about the celebration of New Year. They discussed ideas and came up with their own resolutions for 2015. Next week, we will be looking at Italy.
With the cancellation of buses on Friday, we had a very small group. We put several classes together to take turns doing activities in various classes. It's nice for them to get to know students in other classes better and we often are short a teacher or two on these days when someone is unable to make it in or we are short occasional teachers because of the weather. (As was the case yesterday!) some of the students enjoyed helping me get the daily math problem duotangs updated with new problems for the next few weeks.
I'm looking forward to a busy week with the class as I have a lot to pack into 4 days. I will be away on Friday at a Technology Conference in Toronto but will be back the following week, hopefully with lots of new ideas to share!
Have a great weekend!
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