Tuesday 24 September 2019

September 24

We have a number of items that are outstanding.  Check if your child has finished their nameplate, their hand art, who am I piece, Terry Fox piece, letter to me, rights and responsibilities poster.  Lots of students are done and caught up, but there are some missing items.  I will hopefully have complete lists later this week.  To go with our bottom of the ocean, I have referred the students to the movie The Martian.  Please note I am Not telling them to watch this movie.  It is rated PG.  There are a number of students who have seen it.  What I will do is bring in some screened clips from the movie to demonstrate some of the things they need to think about to live on the bottom of the ocean.  Most of the movie is irrelevant to our topic.

Thursday 19 September 2019

September 19

We are settling into our routines and settling into the school year.  We have done several ‘get-to-know-you’ projects and we have started out overall theme of Settling on the Bottom of the Ocean.  We have started making our packing list as well as making sure everything we are taking fits I. Our bin and it doesn’t weigh too much.
We have Library today (day 1) I forgot to remind students last night.  Today is also the scholastic deadline.  I won’t put the order in until later in the weekend, if you still wish to order, orders can be made online.
We completed our classroom treaty yesterday.  In Room 1, we believe in being respectful and responsible.  We will take care of ourselves, our classroom, and each other.

Friday 13 September 2019

First full week of school

whew, it’s been quite a busy week.
Most students have finished their ‘All About Me’ one pager.  I am still waiting for a couple.  Hopefully I will have them all by Monday.  Today students wrote me a letter.  They could choose to write about anything they want.  Lots handed theirs in, the rest are due Monday.
As part of our Theme studies, students will be creating their own community. We voted today whether we were going to the Moon or the bottom of the Ocean.  We’ll find out Monday and we’ll start packing.  Everyone has settled in and this afternoon I did a seating plan, time to fix a few of the choices.
Next week we will be talking about Terry Fox and what it means to be a hero.

Monday 9 September 2019

New School Year

Its a brand new school year and we are off to a great start.  We have done a couple get to know me activities already. The second one is now due.  They have had class time on two days to work on this.  The page needs to be filled with things about them and coloured with pencil crayon.   We don’t have agendas yet.  There was a problem with our order.  For now I will post items here.

Scholastic orders will be due September 20.