Back to school!

 This morning we did a desk switch and we got to choose where we got to sit and the desks were already moved by Ms. Pattie.We didn’t have math groups this Time. We worked on our zoo work sheets instead of our math. After the morning recess,we had writing and we edited our own writing pieces.Then we had lunch time as usual. After lunch we did some talking about the 7 teachings. Ms. Pattie read us some affection. We wrote the meanings of the 7 teachings and how the animal connects to the meanings. Next we had physical education. We did low organized games because we were done skiing and ringette so we get a easy week. There was recess. We finished our 7 teachings writing and went to our agendas. Ms. Pattie read us the rest of “The Broken Blade”. After Ms. Pattie didn’t tell us what’s going to happen after so it was a surprise. Before long we did our 5 jobs. You might be wondering what is our 5 jobs? 5 jobs is when we, put our pencils in the pencil box so Ms. Pattie could sharpen them over night,2nd we stack our chairs, 3rd we bring our back-pack to our desks,4th we get our outdoor gear on, finally we put our white bins away. Our white bins is like a desk. We keep it under our chair. Home time has arrived. Back to school tomorrow again!

Today’s fun day

This morning we did our math centers and there was 3 centers as usual. After recess,we had gym and we went skiing. Then we went to the gym to check out the WE fair projects with our grade 1 buddies.
Next we did writing for 15 minutes. After that,we had lunch. Choir students walked to an elderly folk home. While that was happening the rest of the class was working on our Victorian houses. The following was recess. We had library and we picked 3 books if we returned our other books. Just before the end of the day we did our agendas. We got prepared for our conferences. What a fun and interesting day.

Today’s amazing day

Today was an amazing day! This morning we did math for the first two periods. We had 3 math centers. We had a class meeting about our new poster games to share with our grade 1 buddies in 3rd period. After recess, we had buddies and we played our postered board games. We are working on our Order and Sequence  biography or our  Compare and Contrast Who Would Win writing paragraphs. Then we had lunch what an amazing morning! After lunch we started our Victorian house drawings. After last recess we did our agendas then handwriting. We had Physical Education and we did skiing. Next was home time. What an amazing day.

January 14

A new year, new things to learn, and a new attempt at keeping this blog up to date.  We are in our second week back from holidays and we are mostly back into our routines.  In math we are moving into division.  We are learning a new strategy using multiplication and subtraction.  Most agree that it’s easier than the way their parents learned.  We’ll keep working on it.  Knowing our multiplication facts help, no matter which way we solve the question.

September 24

Where did last week go?  We have been very busy.  We have created our classroom belief statement.  We have also started our theme work for the year - we chose the location for our islands.  We had to chose a location on a map, find the latitude and longitude of the location, name our island, and we are now drawing a map of our island.  Very exciting.  We did talk about climate around the globe, but some still chose to put their island in the arctic/antarctic waters.  It will be chilly for them.  We have learned some more math games and worked on some vertical problem solving.   I hope to start our math centre work later this week.  Tomorrow is our Terry Fox walk.  Hope it warms up and is dryer than today.  Today we gathered our grade one reading buddies and shared some Terry Fox facts with them.  In class we talked about book reviews.  We created criteria and a rubric.  We are required to do 10 book reviews over the school year.  Each one is marked out of 20.  Everyone received a copy of the rubric, as well as a sample.  Our first book review is due October 9th.

September 13

We are almost a week into the new school year.  We are learning routines, learning about ourselves and preparing to dig into our subject areas.
We have looked at our multiple intelligences and will look at how this will help us learn.  We are starting to focus on our multiplication facts.  We have learned a couple math games. We tend to get really involved in these.  Tomorrow we will get our reflex accounts, then we just have to wait for our iPads to come back.  Today we are going to do some writing too.

September 7, 2018

The first day of the new school year is done.  Today, everyone was in class.  We had a lot to take in.  We talked about attendance, lunch attendance, classroom procedures, recess expectations, classroom expectations, lunch hour expectations, to name a few things.  We took it pretty easy, easing back into the classroom routines.  The weather co-operated and we were able to go out and take some pictures.  We made 'get to know me' signs, we decorated name plates for our bins, and started working on a project thinking about what meets our needs for Love and Belonging, Fun, Freedom and Power.  These are needs that affect a lot of our decisions.  We will be looking at this closer as time goes on.  We ended the day with Gym - always a favourite.  Just a reminder that everyone should be reading at least 20 minutes a day - and these should be Good Fit books.  We'll talk more about those next week.  Hope everyone has a good weekend.