November 21, 2015

I can't get over how dark and gloomy it is outside this afternoon!  I hope you all have some joy-filled activities planned today and this weekend to help brighten things up on the inside!

Here's how our Friday went:

1. Opening Exercises - the children wrote a journal entry about what superhero power they'd like to have and what they'd do with it.  They had a blast with this one, and we got some very creative entries!
2. Spelling test and memory test - their marks are in their planners. 
3. R.W. - we worked on Ch. 6 questions from The Chocolate Touch
4. Computers - some of the class worked on their best day/worst day ever stories, while others worked on ATRT
5. Music - with Mr. Banman
6. Math - the 3's finished their work with 1000's and then played a game called 'Race to 1000'.  The 4's worked on word problems using multiplication and division.  The most challenging part for all of them was creating their own problems for others to solve.
7. D.P.A. - we had a game of 'Capture the Flag', but there was far too much complaining and disgruntled children, so we returned to class earlier than planned unfortunately.  I'm not sure if lots of children were just having a tough day, or what happened, but I told them that I didn't feel the game worked well with our group, and that we wouldn't be playing it again in D.P.A.  There are lots of other games we can have fun with, and we'll focus on those.
8. Science - today we talked about the moon and it's characteristics.  Ask your child if he/she recalls the extreme temperatures on the moon!
9. Art - today our origami project was making frogs that jump.  They were such a delight to make and the class really enjoyed it.  Many of the students wanted to race their frogs afterwards, so here's a photos of us getting ready for that, and then the actual race.