Good Afternoon Parents,

This is what we did today:

First we did our journal pictures. Then we did our journal writing. The grade 1's were trying to write one hamburger paragraph and the grade 2's were trying to do two hamburger paragraphs. A hamburger paragraph has 1 topic sentence, 3 detail sentences, and 1 wrap it up sentence.

After recess we worked on our survey project. Today some people were finishing their survey and some people were working on their graph. After the graph is finished we need to write about our survey and the information it has taught us.

This afternoon in our colour study we learned how to make a shades. A shade is when you take a colour and you add black to make it darker. It is the opposite of tint. We each started with a colour and kept adding black to make darker and darker shades. Black is very powerful so we only needed to add a tiny bit to see a difference.

After that we did gym. We are working on pillow polo and hockey. We started by practicing keeping the ball under control using the polo mallets. Some of us were ready to try weaving between cones when walking, some of us were ready to try jogging, and some of us could keep the ball under control when weaving while running!

New Info:
In our class we are trying a new strategy at the carpet. This strategy is called "No Hands Up". When we use this strategy Ms. Boyer chooses people to answer her questions or share their ideas by choosing names out of a jar rather than calling on people who have their hands up. By using this strategy everyone has to try to think up an idea because we don't know who will be picked and we need to listen closely to our classmates so we can build on their ideas. This is important because when we are thinking up ideas and listening to others our brains are getting smarter. When we stop listening or let other people come up with all the ideas we aren't giving our brains the chance to learn. If Ms. Boyer calls on us and we don't know what to say that is ok, sometimes we just don't know yet. If this happens we have to listen closely to the ideas that other people share and then Ms. Boyer will come back to us and ask us to add on to those ideas or to re-phrase someone else's idea to show what we have learned from our classmates. 

Our helper tomorrow is: Taylor