April 8, 2015

Good afternoon everyone!  It was great to get back into the classroom today and see all the students again.

Here's what went on today:

1. Opening exercises - we started back with an interesting O.W.I.  Alexus brought in some wonderful photos of an owl that her family found in their backyard!
2. Math - the Grade 3's worked on measuring with a metre stick while the 4's worked on measuring area using cm2.
3. Grammar - today's focus was on commas for the 4's and apostrophes for the 3's
4. DPA - we played 2 Corner Soccer
5. Music - with Mr. Banman
6. R.W. - independent reading.  We will be doing lots of reading this term, and I'd really like to see all of the students find a book they truly enjoy and stick with it from cover to cover.  There are students in this class who have yet to read an entire chapter book independently.  I encourage you to visit the public library with your child to help them find a book they are interested in!
7. W.W. - we went down to the lab today to continue on our 'Typical Day' writing. 
8. S.S. - we continued our work on pioneers, doing lots of research today and learning how to highlight the main idea of a passage as well as supporting details.

Term 3 will bring with it a new Science unit (plant growth and change), which both Mrs. Magra and myself will teach.  We will continue with pioneers in S.S., and finish the year with a focus on the environment as well.  In Math, we're finishing off our measurement unit and will then go on to data analysis (graphing), and then multiplication and division.