Tuesday, October 15, 2013

Hi parents! Hope everyone had a wonderful long weekend! Just a reminder that the uniform has now changed, and polo’s are no longer acceptable. For those returning parents, I just wanted to let you know that the mock turtlenecks will no longer be acceptable as well. I will be conducting phone calls this week to discuss student’s progress so far this year. If you would like to send me a time that works best for you, that might makes things a little easier. Here is a look at our day;

Math

Grade 1

 Before the students tried the “Shake and Spill activity” on their own, we did a couple examples of how to play first at the carpet. Students then played shake and spill! Students used snap cubes to count how many cubes spilled into the carpet, and then made addition and subtraction sentences with the amount they had. We shared our sentences together as a class using a handout. They all did a great job at this.  Students then had to make their own subtraction and addition sentences in the book, which was a little more difficult but they are off to a good start.

Homework

MMS: pg. 156-158

Grade 2

Students focused on on how to identify compare, and order numbers to 100. As a group, we practiced counting together. I asked them various questions that dealt with missing numbers. Together we counted by 2’s, then 5’s, then 10’s until 100. We also discussed the importance of knowing what comes before and after particular numbers. They had no problems with this!

Homework

MMS:  Pg. 43 -44 

UOI

Grade 1

Today was very exciting because we started a new unit! We have now moved on to “Where we are in place and time.” We are going prehistoric! We did a picture sort today, which serves as a diagnostic tool for me to see how the students already know about dinosaurs. Students had to sort various dinosaur names, pictures, food items in groups. They were not told a particular way to sort, which means they had to complete it on their own and pick a way to sort and then share with the class. We then shared and discussed what we sorted. We then talked about our new unit, and the central idea.

Grade 2

As the presentations came to an end today we took one last review of the things we have learned in the "How We Organize Ourselves"

French – Mme. Stella

Language

Grade 1

Students focused on punctuation-periods, rhyming words, comprehension, completing sentences.

Homework

Language 1 pgs. 27-28.

Grade 2

Students will be focusing on the importance of details in a sentence. On the board I had examples of sentences that were written fully, and sentences that were written incomplete, then we will sort this as a class

Homework:

L2 – pg. 22-23

Gym – Mr. Browning

Art – Ms. Pattenick

Spelling

Grade 1 & 2

Both grades got a new list of words today. They had to write them out 3 times in their spelling notebooks, and make sentences using each word. They then practiced using their words in their spelling workbooks.

Grade 1 Homework:

Spelling A: pg. 29-32

Grade 2 Homework:

Spelling B: pg. pg. 25 – 28

Have a great evening everyone! I will be talking with you soon!

Ms. Rossi