Monday / Tuesday / Wednesday October 12-13-14

Monday: Thanksgiving No Schol

Thanksgiving turkey handshake.

Tuesday  

Notices:

There will be Tuesday morning sports for those grade 3 and 4's who are interested.  The numbers are limited so get those first come first serve forms in.

Tuesday morning's SongOff was 'First Time in Forever' from Frozen against 'Life is a Highway' from Cars.  Life is a Highway won.

We began the day with spelling.  The students worked with the words in a variety of ways to emphasize the different learning styles: Visual (looking, visualizing),  auditory (saying, hearing), sensory (writing it out).  The students really enjoy the visualizing activity where they look at a rectangles that represent the shape of the word.

We took a gym break to finish off an activity I call wolf pack, that we had begun a couple of weeks ago.  In the end it came down to four..... Who was going to win?

Well done P.  It was lots of fun dodging, dipping, diving and dodging.

After recess we went to the computer where I introduced the students to power point.  Each student got to choose an animal of their choice for this first project.   I was impressed at how fast they picked this introduction up and helped each other create the beginning of some great projects.

The students went from computers to Music.  They are learning about rhythm and practicing songs for the November Remembrance day assembly.  

In the afternoon we had silent reading followed by Social Studies where we are beginning to look at different types of housing and comparing it to our housing in Victoria.  We started by watching video's and reading about Igloos.  Very interesting and an amazing use of material in the natural environment to survive in the high arctic.

Wednesday 1/2 day

Book Orders are finally in.

On Wednesday we worked hard to finish all back work and prepare for the Parent teacher interviews in the afternoon.  We also took a break to look at the Scholastic book fair in the gym going on Wednesday and Thursday in the afternoons.

It is wonderful to meet all the students and their families.  Great day everyone.  See you tomorrow.