Happy Monday Nov 18!
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!
Movember donations graciously accepted by the students at lunch time just outside the learning commons. I can also take them from students to submit votes as well. Just to clarify, votes are for the worst mustache! If you want to see Mr Lancee with dyed hair and mustache then vote for him!


This week in room 5:

Language Arts:
Reading-Continuing our exploration of blends from last week with words that start with cl,pl and fl. Reading to self and someone to practice skills and strategies.

Writing- Working on beginning story strategies. Great ways to begin a story and revising our old stories. Also working on creating blends in word work!

Math:
Place value- specifically around expanded form of numbers. We are working towards playing a roll it, write it, expand it game. Expanded form= 31=30+1. This way of writing numbers helps kids to really see place value!

Social:
Prairies: Looking at bodies of water, climate, and jobs in the prairies this week.

Science:
Magnetism: exploring what metals magnets will attach to, as well the concepts of attract, repel, polarity and NS!

Today we began our day with ignite before our morning meeting.
We were practicing as a class how to count backwards from 100 today!
We were also learning about all the cl blend words such as claw, cloud, cliff and climb!

Next the students had a quick snack before heading off to gym.

Today the students used their monsters from the Monster Descriptive Writing to make a story.
Students had to make up a story about their monster and it could be about anything!
We will use these stories to shape our lessons in the next few days as we talk about beginnings.

We then learned in math how make the expanded form of numbers. Students were a bit confused as to why we can use addition at first, but they quickly got the hang of the basics!

In the afternoon we finished up our work with our buddies on creating IRIS goal strategies which we will be showing to parents on Thursday and Friday for student led conferences.

We finished our day learning about the bodies of water found in the prairies. We explored lakes, ponds, rivers and learned that their aren't any oceans in the prairies!

Have a great evening everyone!
Mr Lancee