Monday, January 15, 2018

Drumming Day 1

This morning we started with journals. Some of us had guided reading while the rest of us focused on our journal pictures. Here are some of the things we are focusing on in our journals writing:
- Adding more details.
- Using lowercase letters.
- Write more sentences.
- Adding finger spaces.
- Careful sounded out spelling.

After recess the grade 1's did wordwork with Ms. Boyer. We practiced our new words for the week. We are studying the -an family and some sight words. Here are our as for the week: can, pan, fan, plan, ran, to, in, is, you.  The grade 2's worked on their vowel sounds wnd i
In math we learned about new pattern centers we will be starting tomorrow. The new centers are: making music, snap cubes, shape patterns, action patterns, and beads. We will get to start these centers tomorrow and will try a new center each day.

This afternoon we worked on our colour page. Before we started working we made a chart that described a great, good, or ok colour chart.  Now we are using this chart to see how we can make our work even better. Here is our chart:

Then we had gym. In gym we continued with volleyball and got to play with the nets! Tomorrow we will start playing games. After that we had our first day of drumming! Our drumming teacher's name is Roger and he is really funny! Today he taught us about the type of drum we are playing. It is a djembe and it comes from the rainforests in West Africa.

Tomorrow our helper is: Jasper

* We still have quite a lot of toys coming to school. Please remember to leave your toys at home so they won't get lost or become a distraction in the classroom. Thanks!