October 23, 2013

Writing Workshop was first on the agenda today, and the class continued working on the first draft of a personal narrative.  Some of the kids had trouble stopping, which was such a good sign of how keen they are to work on this project.  We also shared with a neighbour, pointing out different elements of a personal narrative that we heard in their writing (character description, setting description, dialogue and interesting details).

Then we went on to Reading Workshop, and the students were given some time to finish up their Lit. Study Ch. 5 work.  Then I read from 'Matilda' and then the students had silent reading.

Following Recess, we had Math, and time got away on us quickly!  The Grade 4's continued working hard on their work with Venn Diagrams and Carroll Diagrams while the 3's did some work with creating as many numbers as possible using 1 hundred flat, 2 base ten rods and a 1 cube, etc.  We just started to prepare for a fun math game when class was over!  We'll have to check it out tomorrow.

The students then had P.E. with Mr. Banman followed by P.O.W.

After lunch we had S.S., and I shared a story with the students that is all about stereotypes ('The True Story of the Three Little Pigs').  Then we went on to Chapter 2 in the textbook, which is all about describing our world.