This morning we started with our usual Monday routine of Journals and guided reading. Before we started our journal writing we met at the carpet and had to think of our first sentence in our heads. Then we shared that first sentence with a friend. Ms. Boyer told us that sometimes if we are having trouble getting started with our writing it can really help to say our ideas out loud to someone or to ourselves. This gets our brains warmed up and our ideas ready so that we don't have to try to think of ideas and write at the same time.
After recess we practiced the words from our custom spelling lists and then we had math. In math we are starting our new study of adding and subtracting. Today we did a "show what you know" so that Ms. Boyer could see what we are already able to do and what she needs to teach us. Before we got to work Ms. Boyer showed us how adding and subtracting facts could be written across or up and down. We learned to read the facts both ways and learned that even though they look different they mean the same thing.
This afternoon we started working on our dioramas! The first step was painting the background. We painted the sky and some hills so that it will look like Nose Hill.
In gym we started our climbing unit. Today was a bit slow because we had to learn some new rules and facts about climbing.
Thank you to everyone who has already returned their purple field trip forms. If you have not returned your forms please try to bring them back by Wednesday.
Our helper tomorrow is: Senna
