Speech bubbles and thought bubbles...what's the difference?

This morning we started getting ready for story writing. We were working to make a chart of Inuktitut words that we might want to put in our stories. We tried to find people names, animal names, and landscape words. We will keep working on this tomorrow.

After recess we had word work. The grade 2's are working on improving their editing skills by doing a daily edit. They are looking for spelling mistakes, missing punctuation, and capitalizations. The grade 1's worked on writing sentences using our new words for the week.

Today in math we had another day to play Race to 100. We are getting much better at counting on using tally marks without making mistakes.

This afternoon we finished up our t-charts for the human impacts in Whispering Woods. Then we had a few minutes to practice our presentations. Then we presented our work to the class and told the class if we thought our impact was mostly positive or mostly negative. Here is the chart we came up with following these presentations.

At home, please try to brainstorm some things we could do to improve the negative impacts to our Whispering Woods. We will be talking about this as a class on Fresh Air Friday. 

After our science time we had library. We read a story and got to sign out new books. In gym we had jungle safari. Some of us were able to complete the whole course today! At the end of the day we read another story by one of our favourite authors, Mo Willems. This story was called "Don't let the Pigeon Drive the Bus".

Over the past few weeks Ms. Boyer and Mrs. Hamby have noticed that some of us are having trouble staying focused during our group learning times and are forgetting to listen to our classmates when they are sharing. To help us with this problem we have some new visual reminders we are using.
When we come to the carpet the person who is speaking gets to hold the speech bubble. When we have the speech bubble we are working to use a big speaking voice so that everyone can hear us. 

When we are not the speaker it is our job to be listening and thinking about the ideas the speaker is sharing. If we are having trouble with this, one of our teachers will hand us a "thought bubble" as a reminder.  At home, please ask your child if they needed any "thought bubble" reminders today and, if so, what they will do tomorrow to improve their active listening skills.  Thank you for your support with this work! 

Tomorrow our helper will be Sarah