Blog 17

Happy Friday everyone! We had a great and fun week here at St. Judes! I think our class gets better and better as the weeks go by. Here is a look at our day today;

Math

Grade 1

In a circle, the grade 1’s e counted by 1’s, 2’s, 5’s and 10’s, one by one. In the middle of the circle there were large objects. The students had to come up and group them by 10’s. I recorded the amount of groups of 10’s and 1’s together on the board. This helped them understand that number patterns only deal with numbers, and not what things look like.  We had a big lesson today as I felt this was a hard concept for them to understand. In the Math Makes Sense notebook you will notice that it asks the students to estimate and then count objects. We used snap cubes to do this, but on the weekend, any group of objects will do! Please practice this with them over the weekend.

Homework:

MMS: pg. 142, 143-145.

Grade 2

The grade 2’s also had to estimate and use various ways of counting numbers. They are not focusing on patterns, but more so on the power of counting by 10’s, which has been greatly understood so far. They practiced this as a group using snap cubes, and then they worked on this skills in their math makes sense notebook.

Homework:

MMS: pg. 31 – 32

UOI

Grade 1

In groups the grade ones played the matching game with various rules.

The rules and reasons why the rules were created had to be matched together

The team that matched them all together first with the correct answers won. This was a great way to understand the meaning of rules in a fun and interactive way. Parents, this unit is coming to the end, so next week we will begin the summative. This will be done everyday during class time. I will be sending home a latter tonight explaining what we will be doing.

Grade 2

The grade 2’s were introduced to India, and had to find it on class world map.

Students plotted India on their world map worksheet. The students were divided into groups where each group was given information about food, clothing, transportation, shelter, leisure and other important information. Students read as a group and presented important information to class.

French: Mme. Stella

Quite Reading

Grade 1 & 2

Students got a chance to quietly read while I completed DRA assessments.

Gym – Mr. Browning

Art – Ms. Pattenick

Language

Grade 1 & 2

As both grades are starting to fully understand the vowels sounds and apply them to reading. We played a phonics-pumpkin word game today in class! We first went through all vowel sounds, and had to differentiate between the short sound and the long sound, and then we chose three words for each vowel sound. This was recorded on a sheet and we had a lot of fun.

Homework: Pumpkin Worksheet

Spelling

We completed the spelling test for both grades.

That’s all for the weekend!

Have a very good night J

Ms. Rossi