Thursday, October 17, 2013

Good evening everyone, here is a look at another busy day;

Math

Grade 1

Today in math class I worked with smaller groups to answer the questions in our MMS notebooks so students could show me what they knew so far. While we worked in smaller groups, the majority of the class did some math Halloween centers activity. Games: Fill in the missing numbers (Halloween), 2 Way Pumpkin Math, Halloween Colour by number, Rake it Up Addition Problems, Spinning Number Sentences.

Homework: Review Booklet

Grade 2

The students got to display a number line from 1 to 50 using the flash cards from Tuesday. They had to explain to me what they remembered about the number line. They also had to explain what we can use the number line to skip count by 2’s, 5’s and 10’s.  As a class we compared the number line to the number chart (looks at patterns you see using number chart) à when you count by 10’s they are all in the very last column, when counting by 5’s it ends in either 5 or 0. The grade 2’s understood that you can use number patterns to count past 100.

Homework: MMS – 45,46,47

UOI

Grade 1

Unit of Inquiry:

Students watched the MSB Video MSB and the Busasaurus- Netflix Season 2.

We discussed things throughout the video and had students ask questions. They really liked this!

Grade 2

In Media literacy the grade twos decoded some common symbols that we see every day and deciphered what these symbols mean and what there message they are trying to convey to us. We then got to look at three other popular forms of media, a billboard ad, a television ad, and a jiggle. They were asked to pay close attention tonight to count how many different types of media they can come in contact with. 

French – Mme Stella

Language

Reading comprehension:

Grade 1 & 2

Both grades listening to a Halloween read aloud as we practiced our reading comprehension.

Gym - Mr. Browning 

Art - Ms. Pattenick 

Novel Study: Flat Stanley: Map Activity

Grade 1 & 2 

For this activity, we looked at a map of Canada on the computer, and more importantly, we focused on Ontario. After this, the students got a blank map of Ontario, and had to label it on their own. The students then had to colour a “mini” Flat Stanley that they had to past on Ontario. After, they wrote in their journal, and told me what they did with Flat Stanley over Thanksgiving weekend. They followed a paragraph format.

Have a great night everyone!

Ms. Rossi