Friday Sept 18

Notices:  

Pro-D Monday NO School

Wed Sept 23 PAC Meeting (Child minding provided)

Thursday Oct 1 Meet the Teacher

We began the day greetings, News and of course with Calvin and Hobbes.  This was followed by and a song off where "Not One Of Us" from Lion King, suggested by A. was up against "Under the Sea" from the little Mermaid, suggested by K.  The students voted and "Not One Of Us" won for the third day in a row.  'Not One Of Us" is entered in the finals.  Next week we will start with two more contenders.

After the Introduction the students went back into their choral reading groups and made puppets to go along with their Reading of "Chicken Little"  We will video their final projects and post them.

In math we worked with a box of smarties and talked about probability using a box of smarties. Talking about math in a normal fun way makes math seem simple and a part of our daily lives.  First the students had to guess (predict) the number of smarties from a range of 8 - 12.  Their were 9.   This was not a real prediction for they had little or no background information.  We then predicted which color of smartie would be the most of.  We looked at the box and from experience made a prediction.  This prediction was still a guess but based on some background information. The winner of the number of smarties and the most common smarties both got to eat one.  From there we put the smarties back in the box and predicted what color the next smartie taken from the box would be.  There were 3 brown and only one green so brown would be the best prediction, etc.  We did this until all the smarties were eaten.

For socials the students finished the map of the class and started a map of their room at home.  The key concepts were the same as yesterday with the exception that they were allowed to add non permanent movable objects like Stuffies and other treasures if they were always found in the same places.

After lunch we had Reading followed by buddies with Mrs. Dagg's class where the students help construct paper diggers, work on the little buddies a b c books and read.

After buddies we had a finish off all work period followed by P.E.



Great work everyone... look for pictures to be added tonight or tomorrow...