Happy Wednesday Mar 4 2020!

Apologies for the lack of blogs yesterday and Friday. I had to leave on Friday due to an injury (I am a-okay!) and I was sick yesterday.

Reminders:
Today I sent home two forms:
1. Fun lunch forms
2. March newsletter and calendar

Some students also went home with Care Sheets regarding behavior expectations which should be signed and returned tomorrow.

Today in room 5:

Students began their day with taking some time write some apologies to the sub from yesterday. There were several unexpected behaviors from students and as so they needed to write up some care sheets. The other students were given some time on ipads doing mathletics, raz kids, or prodigy as a thank you for showing expected behaviors. It is important for students to understand that subs deserve the same respect as any teacher, principal, support staff or student in the school.

Next we moved into Math,

During this block students were given time to learn some tips and tricks for word problems.

We use a strategy called CUBS!

Circle the numbers
Underline the question
Box the math words
Solve the problem!

We will be doing word problems for the rest of the week and continuing them each Friday.

We start with simple one step problems and moved into larger/2 step problems.

Starting this week every Wednesday we will have gym at 11:00 instead of 9:00.

We moved from math into snack before continuing the writing from part 2 of our instead I project. We are pushing to finish this by the end of the week and turn it into a large book!

After writing we headed off to gym for floor hockey. I split the students into four teams and we played free for all hockey before heading off for lunch.

In the afternoon the students did an excellent job of mindfulness with 10 mins of quiet meditation.

We finished off our afternoon with some rehearsals of how to lose friends...Did you read that correctly? Yes! We looked into all the ways to lose friends such as: being rude, whining, saying i'm not your friend, and shouting at friends. These are just some of the ways we lose friends. After discussing these ideas we then turned it positive by brainstorming ways to keep/make friends!

Students then created little skits using pre selected situations to present to the class. Students did a great job of acting out kind ways to handle problems and help their classmates.

After a great music class the students returned to pack up and head home for the day.

Have a great evening everyone!
Mr Lancee