Today we officially got back to work on some of our big projects. To start Ms. Boyer showed us the new center job for this week: exploring poetry books. She told us that we will be starting a poetry challenge during centers next week and that this week was our chance to get warmed up by exploring the poetry books and looking for poems we really like. While we were exploring we used sticky notes to mark pages that we though Ms. Boyer should share with the class.
After centers and guided reading we got back to work on our All About Me project. This week we are working to finish our family puppets. Once the puppets are done we will start doing some writing about our families.
After recess we started a new word work routine for 2018! Today the grade 1's met with Ms. Boyer at the carpet to begin practicing our first word family (the -at family) and 4 sight words. Our words for this week are: the, of, and, that, cat, mat, sat, hat. Tomorrow the grade 1's will practice these words with an activity at their desks while Ms. Boyer works with the grade 2's. We will alternate each day so that both grade 1's and grade 2's have some lesson time with Ms. Boyer and some independent practice time.
Then it was time for math. In math we continued our pattern hunt around the school. We were trying to see if we could find some more complicated patterns today. Yesterday we found a lot of different ABABAB patterns. Today we found some more of those but Jasper and Ashton also managed to find an ABCBABCBABCB pattern and Josie and Taylor found an ABACABACABAC pattern. **Now that we have started our pattern study this is a great time to begin working on the patterns section of Mathletics at home.**
After lunch we continued working on our colour page in our art journals. Once we had the steps from yesterday finished it was time to start thinking of the facts about colour that we want to share on our page. To help each other our we came up with a list of key words. Here are the words we came up with: primary, secondary, tertiary, warm, cool, wheel, spectrum, tint, and shade. Ask me what facts I can tell you that use these key words!
Then it was time for gym. In gym we continued our volleyball skills and then we had music. It was nice to see Mr. O'Reilly after such a long break from music! We started learning about different styles of music. We listened to country, pop, and rock music.
Tomorrow our helper is: Lawrence
Request from Ms. Boyer: Many people in our class are very excited about the neat things they got as gifts over the holidays and quite a few toys have shown up at school. In order to help everyone stay on-tasks in the classroom and to avoid the inevitable tears that can arise from lost or broken toys it is best to keep toys at home unless you are bringing them for your special helper sharing. Thanks!
