Happy Monday Jan 20, 2020

Reminders:
January 23-Fun Lunch
January 24-Pillars of Care Assembly
Math Night is Thursday, Feb 6th, 6-8pm

This week in room 5:

Language Arts:

New letter blend: aw

Reading:
Starting literacy groupings tomorrow.
(read to self) (read to someone) (Guided Reading)
Reading legends from Iqaluit

Writing:
Finishing if you're not from the prairie.
Starting writing about legends from the Iqaluit.

Math:

Repeated addition & skip counting

Social:

Making our Prairie mural to display in our classroom.

Science:

Working with thermometers

How to read a thermometer

How to use a thermometer

Art:

Arctic Inukshuk art

Today:

The students began their day with the usual ignite. In my room we were building things using lego, polygons, and connector cubes.

When the students returned to class we had our morning meeting and went through the calendar, number of days in school, and the weather. After morning meeting students had their spelling test from the words from last week. We marked the words and students corrected mispelled ones. 

We then transitioned into gym where we had our first gymnastics class using all of the equipment. Students were walked through all of the stations before being able to rotate. The climbing wall and large balances were a huge hit. 

After snack we had some time to do our student of the week writing. This quick writing block led us into math where we did a review of skip counting with 5's, 2's and 10's. We then used this knowledge to help us with representing numbers in different ways while making 20. 

In the afternoon I needed some time to catch students up on their work from Friday and today. So While some students read, others finished their skip counting assessment or finished their student of the week writing. 

Students then had some time to explore how to read and use thermometers. We watched a video on how they can be read before actually getting to hold and read the thermometers in degrees celsius. Tomorrow we will be practicing reading the thermometers before we use them to measure actual temperatures in the room and eventually different liquids.

After recess we finished off our day by starting our mural for the prairies. We had to start by drawing some wheat to form the front of our wall mural and we will start to add in flowers, barns, buildings and other features of the prairie.

Hope everyone has a good evening.

Mr Lancee