September 19

Today in gym we played benchball.  We got to play 5 rounds.  In writing, we are writing Miss Pattie a letter.  We are telling her what we are hoping for this year and what we might be worried about.  We had our first class meeting today.  We talked about thanking people who help us.  We also talked about things we might want to change, or need help changing.  Then we get some possible solutions for those issues. In French we talked more about Detective X and we learned where the kids in Detective X's class all come from around Canada.  In Theme we talked more about what we need to take to our island community.  We talked about what things we will need after basic survival.  We were reminded about the metric system and how it is based on a 10 system, just like our number system.  At bus Ridership - Bus Driver Bob gave each of us a bracelet.

September 16

Today, we played a game in gym, it was called murder ball.  Miss Pattie rearranged the seats today.  We got to choose our seats originally, now Miss Pattie has put us where we might work a little better and quieter.  We looked at a multiplication chart to discover which facts we already know.  Now we know which ones to focus on.  In French we worked on our alphabet.  We also learned the words for 'where is?" and "here is".  We used these phrases to put the alphabet together.  We got to read quite a bit today.  In Theme we continued to plan what we would bring to our deserted island.  We have to estimate how long things are and what their weight might be.  The whole box will have to weigh less than us.  In Writing we learned about ARMS and COPS to help us when we revise and edit.  ARMS stands for Add, Remove, Move or Substitute.  COPS stands for Capitals, Order, Punctuation, and Spelling.

September 15

Today we wrote about the steps for problem solving.  We also did a practice problem.  We did a lot of writing and copying from the board.  Some of us got to do lots of reading. In french we introduced ourselves and then spelled out our name, using the French alphabet.  We finished our multiple intelligence discussion, by thinking of what intelligence would work with different jobs.  We finished our "Where my shoes were this summer".  We started our island project; what do we think we would take with us to discover our island.  We had to remember that it has to fit in our sea chest.  What do you think you would bring? We played a math game called Boom to end our day.  

September 14

Today we started our writer's notebook.  We did a drawing/writing activity about where our shoes were this summer.  In gym we played a tag game.  We also did a survey about what our 'smarts' were - what learning style suited us best.  We then thought about what we can help the class with and we posted in on our community brain.  We had music, we played on the instruments.

Our Community Brain!

September 13

We had our first gym class today.  We talked about home and house rules and why we have them.  This lead us to the values behind them.  In music we played cookie jar.  We wrote in our math journals today. We wrote about Rumpelstiltskin and his multiplying stick; a story Ms Pattie read to us.  Today in french we practiced our sentences from yesterday.  We greeted each other and asked for names. We learned the word for School Bus in French.  We had a pretend school bus and we greeted each other as we boarded and exited the bus.

September 12

We did work today!  We did some art today.  We traced our hand and used it for art.  We played a math game - Scoot, to review our math facts.  It was fun, we had to move around to different spots and find all the math questions.  Sometimes you got to a spot and you had already solved that one or there was no fact there.   In french class we started to solve a mystery - La cas du Detective X.  We had our first music class.  We read a lot - silent reading.  We talked about Read to Self.  We were supposed to have Library today, but the librarian wasn't there so we have to wait.

September 9

It is our first day back to school.  A brand new crop of grade 5s.  This morning we had a scavenger hunt.  Pirate Pete had stolen our Pencils and erasers.  We had to figure out the clue to unlock the locks and open the box.  It was fun getting to know everybody.  While we solved our scavenger hunt we got to move around the room and learn where things were.  As a class we made a chart that shows our jobs and Miss Pattie's jobs.  This will remind us how to have a great year.  We took pictures hanging from the monkey bars - just as if we were hanging from a bunch of balloons and floating away.  We made pennants about us to hang in the classroom.