The Week is Just Flying By....

With the rush of our busy daily routines, I was so pleased that so many parents were able to pop in last evening and visit our classroom and meet me.  I feel so fortunate to have such a lovely young bunch of students with such interested and supportive parents.  So many of my students were such wonderful hosts, showing their parents around, explaining our procedures and job wall etc., proud to show off their art and writing.

As always, yesterday was a busy day for us.  We continue to play games and sing songs to acquired and strengthen our French vocabulary base.  Then students wrote another journal entry that I look forward to reading!

Most did quite well on their first sciences sociales quiz and were happy to show their parents their success on the first evaluation written in French.

In Math, we continued to forward our knowledge of decimals through a Visit and Record activity. Students had to first select a key base ten block to represent 1.  From there they used the base ten manipulatives to construct a decimal number.  Thereafter, they visited the decimal models of classmates and recorded the decimal number with several representations: standard form, expanded form, graphic form and in words.  Once they completed their chart, they compared their representations to the solution sheet provided with each model.  If they disagreed with the solution, they had to find the author and have a discussion until they came to an agreement.  This helped correct any misconceptions.  During consolidation, we shared and discussed misconceptions to ensure that all were resolved.

Our Visit and Record tracking sheet with sample

I love how willingly students work together to construct understanding.

Marla's decimal number (1.23)

Owen's model (3.45)

See how well EVERYONE  is working without prompting!

Today in Math, Ms. Stormes lead the class in a hands-on Super Source activity that helped students with adding 10th and 100th to an existing decimal.  I am confident that the activity went well - thank you Ms. Stormes!

I have finally begun hanging artwork in the classroom.  Our first experimentation with chalk pastels. Some have really gotten the hand of blending colours and different techniques with the pastels.

More to come...

Don't forget to dress in house colours for our Spirit assembly and for our Terry Fox Run.