Another Monday finished!
We started today off with some Math. We corrected our homework from the weekend together on the Promethean Board. We will always allow for time to go over the homework, so that questions that students were uncomfortable with at home can be reviewed and discussed. If students are still having difficulties, then they can arrange to have help during recess or silent reading. Please encourage your students, if you notice they are struggling at home, to come and speak to me right away. There is always time for us to go over something again if needed!
We also had our Monthly Virtue Assembly today. The virtue this month is Humility. We will be discussing this virtue together on Friday during our classroom meeting. Once a month we honor students in our class who are positively contributing to our classroom and school. We do so in a number of ways: Monthly Awards, Howler Award Winners, and Howler Lunch Winners. The Monthly Awards are: Star Student, Timberlea Spirit, Classroom Citizen, Reader of the Month, and the Apple Schools Award. Congratulations to all the award winners from our class! We’ve had a great first couple of weeks, and I would love to see this positive energy continue all year long! The Howler awards are given out to students throughout the month if they are caught doing something good or exhibiting one of our virtues. They may also obtain Howlers for making healthy choices. Students bring these howlers to the office and each month students are selected from the box. There is a main prize for Div. 1 and Div.2, as well as the opportunity to win a fun lunch filled with games, our Howler lunches. The administration joins these students for these lunches as well.
In Social today we completed our map of the portable. Students combined their individual maps into one large map. I asked students to make their maps colourful and to include a compass and legend. They did a great job, and the finished product looks great. Well done everyone!
In Language Arts today we completed another round of Making Words. Students are given letters that they must reassemble into as many words as they can. Students are then able to share some of their favourite words with the class. This is a great way for students to practice different spelling strategies and to work at their own level. Not all students have to find the same words. It is from these words that we pick our weekly spelling words. The strategy that we discussed today was the use of “s” to make plural words. This means that students can essentially double their word lists by finding the plural form of words if possible.
Agenda
Read 20 minutes
Reading Journal (Friday)
Book Orders – Sept. 27th
Spelling Quiz (Monday)
Math: pg. 8 #7 in Journal
LA: Covers (due Friday at the latest!)
Terry Fox (Sept. 26th)
Picture Day (Oct. 2)
Veggie Fundraiser (Sept. 18th)
Spelling Words: crosswalks, across, walk, sack, rack, rock, lock, sock, crow, slow
Reading Journal: Are the characters in your book realistic? Are they like people in real life?
