It's been such a busy week, even though I've only been at school for four days. Right now I'm traveling on the train to Toronto for a technology conference. I'm hoping to bring back lots of great ideas to use in the class. The class was very excited about tomorrow's Crazy Hair Day. I'm sorry that I will miss it.
This week in language, the students practised the "on" sound in "Le papillon" and the "in" sound in "Le lutin". Our shared reading was the poem "La nouvelle année" which was about the four seasons. We are now working on one of the two "o" sounds. (Short o) They really had fun boxing out the words yesterday.
In our reading centres, the students practiced fluency by reading increasingly difficult sentences. They played a game where they had to identify characters based on descriptions that they read. Online, they started listening to tales and legends.
In writing, we are just finishing up our mini-unit on punctuation and will be beginning something new in our next cycle of writing centres. The students are working on winter poems. They have been practising writing wod wall words without looking. Each group has been adding the spelling pattern words that they are working to their personal dictionaries. They also played a game where they had to choose the correct final punctuation of a sentence.
In math, we finished up with 2-d shapes and spent some time on 3-d solids. We will be finishing up next week and out next few cycles of centres will focus on 2-digit addition and subtraction. We spent quite a bit of time on our math journals with 2-d shapes and 3-d solids activities.
We did some fun activities on the SMARTBOARD and some group activities. We will do some more next week.
In Social Studies, we learned about Italy and will do some more activities on this next week. Tomorrow the class will be doing an art activity using the 2-d shapes they learned in Math. I'm looking forward to seeing their work when I get back on Monday.
Yesterday was exciting as we got an FM system for the classroom. It's all set up but unfortunately the mike isn't staying charged. Someone from the board will be back tomorrow to check it out. I'm hoping it will be working on Monday. It's a great tool to allow all the students to hear instructions more clearly and I'm really looks forward to using it. We also had an assembly yesterday to start our new character trait we are focusing on, kindness.
I'm now relaxing in my hotel room in Toronto. Have a great and relaxing weekend!
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