December 5, 2013

Good evening everyone. I am so sorry for not being able to make the parent-teacher interviews last night. I have not been feeling well this past week, but I am slowly getting better. I will pick a day to re-schedule and let you all know very soon. I know there was some confusion regarding the last day of school. Thursday, December 19^th, 2013 will be the last day of school, and it will be a full day. THERE WILL BE NO SCHOOL on Friday, December 20^th, 2013. The Christmas concert will be on Wednesday, December 18^th 2013 at 7:00pm. Please don’t miss it, the students have been working super hard J Take a look at our day;

Math

Grade 1

Students had to make a sandwich that costs 6 cents. They had to solve this problem and then we discussed this at the carpet. We went over how to count money. They then had to do the same thing with a pizza in their math workbooks.

Homework:

MMS: pg. 57 – 58

Grade 2

Students learned how to subtract using 2 digit numbers using word problems. Using another word problem, students will write number sentences to figure out the problem. The students had some trouble with this as I feel they rush over the words and don’t understand them fully. I am going to revisit this lesson on Monday.

Homework:

MMS: pgs. 104-107

UOI

Since both Mr. Monaghan, and myself have been ill the past few days, we used this UOI time to catch up on some math, and our IB binders, which we had to organize. We also used the last few minutes to make snowman using a set of directions. This taught the students the importance of directions, which we then linked to the importance of organization.

Spelling

Both grade 1’s and 2’s wrote their spelling test today.

Language

Using our letter writing skills, the students wrote a letter to Santa!

Grade 1: 5 -6 sentences

Grade 2: 8 – 9 sentences

Phonics FUN!

We used Christmas centers to practices our adjectives, nouns, and compounds words

Journals

Students wrote about their ride on Santa’s sleigh. I wanted them to really use their imagination and the Christmas nouns and adjectives we have been studying.