Happy Tuesday Jan 7 2020

Reminders:
No Bridge club the next two Thursdays
January 15-Pajama Day
January 23-Fun Lunch
January 24-Pillars of Care Assembly

Spelling quiz Friday
of
did
want
friend
could
down
road

bonus:
hot
cold
flag
service

Today in Room 5:

We began our day with our morning meeting covering the days of the week, number of days in school and the weather. Students predicted it is going to be mostly sunny and windy for the month of January. We shall see!

Students then had some time to practice their weekly words with their word work stations.
We used letters, playdough, pipecleaners and worksheets to practice writing our words.

After some fitness stations in gym we transitioned into snack before writing.

The students continued to work on their My Winter Break writing pushing themselves to write several sentences. Each time they would finish a sentence I would make sure the sentence had a capital and period before getting them to write the next sentence in more detail. This week we will be looking at our writing and doing some editing of our work primarily focusing on capitals and periods.

After writing we moved into math and began to work on double digit numbers with no regrouping. I wanted to ensure the students understood that this type of math is just basic facts over and over!
We will continue our work with regrouping tomorrow.

In the afternoon the students had music before starting 10 minutes of mindfulness.
During this mindfulness time students do 10 minutes of breathing, meditating, or calming videos that focus on living in the moment and thinking about right now. We use anti stress techniques such as clenching and unclenching our hands and feet to help students calm before reading.

During reading the students I was able to work with a few students doing some guided reading. We will be starting reading groups and stations soon!

After reading and recess we came together on the carpet for our science lesson. We started a new unit today: Hot and Cold Temperature! We started a KW chart today to record what the students know and what they wonder about. We will be finishing this chart tomorrow before we head off to music. This is one of my favourite units as we get to do several science experiments!

We tidied the room and were ready for home!

Hope everyone has a nice evening!
Stay warm as it is very cold!
Mr Lancee