Mme Jacques's Class: Snow Days and PA Days Make For a Very Short Week

Monday's snow day was the start of an extra short week. With the buses being cancelled, there were only two students in the class. Thank you Kayleigh for all of your help organizing and tidying the binders and boxes. They look great!

In language, we reviewed the "un" sound and spellings in "Le chocolat brun". Our shared poem was a funny one about punctuation fighting. We had a few long words that were challenging but we spent quite a bit of time discussing how to break them into syllables to make them manageable. We also discussed how periods, commas, and semi-colons are used in sentences.

Looking at the three types of punctuation

We began a new reading strategy where we write down "jot" notes to help with comprehension. This week we focused on visualizing. Using an eye symbol on a sticky note, the students jot some ideas of what they picture in their mind about what they are reading. We began a new read aloud "Le loup qui voyageait dans le temps" where I am modelling this strategy. Then the students practised it during their independent reading. We will continue to practise this next week.

Using jot notes for visualizing

In our guided writing groups, we are working on the verb "avoir" in the present tense. We read a short book to learn how to properly conjugate it and then did some follow up activities.

Word work with stencils

Word work on the spelling patterns they need to practise

Reading with a partner

Working on typing skills

We continued to work on measurement this week with more hands on activities in our guided math groups. The grade threes are working on measuring objects with standard units. The grade twos are working on ordering objects by size. We also spent time looking at how we can use body parts to estimate, fingertips are about a cm wide, arms stretched out are about a meter.

In social studies, the grade threes learned some new terminology related to living and working in Ontario. They also looked at the map of Ontario and did a comparison of it and the map of Manitoba, which is very similar.

The grade twos began to look more closely at Europe. We began in France as we are following le loup's journey from "Le loup qui voulait faire le tour du monde". We learned more about Paris and then the students did some follow up activities.