Happy Monday Feb 10!

Reminders:
Bridge club every Thursday other then Feb 13
Teachers convention Feb 13, 14 (no school)
Feb 17-No school (Family Day)
Feb 20-Fun lunch
Feb 26th is Pink Shirt Day!!  Wear pink to show your support against bullying.
Feb 25- Jump Rope for heart assembly
Feb 28- Pillars of Care Assembly

Welcome to a short week!

The teachers have teachers convention on Thursday and Friday so the students get a loooooong weekend!
This week in room 5:
LA:
-exploring ow blend
-Writing situations of what happened, where were you, how are you feeling, and what is your body doing? Practicing this for our upcoming writing project.
-Writing Valentines in class for all students on Wednesday
Math
-Addition quiz (today)
-Mathletics
-Valentines math games
Social
-Finishing Ted Harrison Art
-Learning about the Inukshuk
Science
-Exploring body temp and changes to it
Health
-Feelings and calming strategies
Art
-Ted Harrison art


Today in room 5:

After the usual ignite we returned to class for a quick morning meeting before math. Today I had the students complete an addition check in to see how they are doing so far. Below is the quiz I gave.



We brainstormed as a class several of the strategies we use to solve these problems!

Fingers, pictures, tallies, split it up, traditional regrouping, and hundreds charts were just some of the strategies we used!

I will be marking them this week and using some of the data to best support my students.

After math we headed off to gym for Monday stations before heading back to class for snack.

For health/LA today we explored different feelings related to situations through charades. At first we started with just the feelings and acting it out to see if kids could recognize them. We then moved onto acting out a feeling from a scenario like "A boy broke your favourite pencil"

This paved the way for starting our next writing project based off the Instead I book!

We will be doing our planning today and tomorrow solely around 4 sections:

1. Where are you?
2. What is happening? (Problem)
3. How are you feeling?
4. What are you doing?

By drawing pictures and writing about how they feel after a problematic situation students will be able to create the second half of the writing project in which they write about how they calmed themselves. The final product will be a large book to keep in the classroom that helps with handling tough situations and calming our feelings. "It's okay to be mad and sad! It is not okay to be mean or hurtful."

In the afternoon we did mindfulness before a short reading block.

After reading we began to explore temperature of our bodies. Our body rests at roughly 37 degrees celsius. When we do something like exercise it rapidly increases our body temp and we begin to sweat to cool down! Tomorrow we will be exploring this in more detail.

We finished off our day painting using water color paints for our Ted Harrison art. We will finish these off tomorrow and put them on the walls for all to enjoy!

Have a great evening everyone!