After centers we learned about the next step in our All About Me project. This step is called family writing. Once our family puppets are finished we will write one paragraph about each member of our family to include in our books. To begin we came up with some possible topics we might want to write about. We came up with: name, age, favourite things, hobbies, sports, jobs, and why we love them. In order to make this part of the project a bit easier, we decided it would probably be a good idea to take a few notes about our family members at home and bring them with us. We might want to write down things like the correct spelling of our family members names, their ages, and maybe a few key words like foods, jobs, or hobbies that we might need to have at school.
After recess we did word work. The grade 1's learned about some amazing people at school called Tiny Teachers! (Ask me to explain Tiny Teachers!) Working with Tiny Teachers really helped the grade 1's with their word practice today. Ms. Boyer noticed that almost everyone remembered to use lowercase letters and keep their letters on the lines today. The grade 2's worked with Ms. Boyer and talked about letters, and letter combinations that cause vowels to make their long sounds. When two vowels go walking, the first one does the talking, Magic E, and the igh letter combination were some of the things they talked about.
Then it was time for math. Today was our first day working at our new pattern centers. Before we began we made a checklist to help us remember the steps we needed to include in our math journals. Here is the checklist we created:
After lunch we had another chance to try to get our colour pages into the GREAT column. Many of us were very focused on comparing our work to the assessment chart and were really trying to include facts from all the different categories. Ask me how my work is going. See if I can assess myself using this chart:
Our helper tomorrow is: Katie
