Happy Tuesday Nov 12
Nov 21, 22 will be student led conferences (Nov 21: 3:30-7 Nov 22: 8-12)
No school Nov 22

Make sure you are reading at home and coming to show me so I can hand out hockey cards!
Please make sure you send your child with gloves, hats, mits, scarves or whatever they need to stay warm at lunch and recess!
Wednesday, Nov 20th, Reverse Day - Students dress as teachers, teachers dress as students!
Fun lunch form sent home today!

Today an incident occurred in my classroom in which a student threw my classroom supplies around the room. The rest of the class was out of the room at this time so we did not need to do an evacuation. As a preventative measure I have moved all the students supplies off the shelves and up to a higher location. I have also placed locks on my cupboards for the safety of the students.
I am sorry for this change in routine and classroom layout but the students safety is my number one concern.



Today!
We began our day with a number talk in which the students looks at the picture below...

Students gave several answers.
False because the counting is not 231 or 312. 2+3 does not equal 1.
True because the counting is 123. or 321.
3 is 2+1.       3 is 1 and 2.     One student even noticed....red and blue make purple!

It was great to see how students verbally explain their thinking and defend their arguments!
After some quiet reading and gym we transitioned into word work in which the students wrote the words of the week in three forms! Rainbow, bubble and fancy!

As a class we explored writing numbers from 1-100 as place value blocks. We will continue this skill tomorrow!

In the afternoon the students went to music before we had some time to cut up our cities for Calgary mural. Tomorrow we will continue our exploration of Saskatchewan and the prairies!.

Have a great evening everyone!
Mr Lancee