RAZ-KIDS AND PRODIGY MATH

HI EVERYONE!  We have started back on Raz-kids for our Listen to Reading Literacy Centre.  This will be available at home again this year.  Also starting this week is a new online math program that I am testing out.

ProdigyMathGame.com is a pokemon themed math based program where kids get to build their own avatar and battle characters by answering math questions correctly.  This game is linked to the Ontario curriculum and progresses students along at their level and own pace.  We will take one period a week of our math to test out this program.  Feel free to access this free program online too. Just click on the link on our blog to access.  Students have been given a username and password to access.

Enjoy and let me know what you think.

Math Games!

Today we learned some math games.  We are beginning to talk about adding numbers together so we learned to play some games to help us.  Check out the pictures below to find out how to play.  All you need is some dice and a deck of cards.

Calm and Alert Learning

Discuss with your child how we can become calm and alert learners and how we can help others in their journey.

Patterns, Patterns, Patterns! And Recount Writing!

We have been busy learning about sorting and making patterns.  We can sort by colour, size, shape, texture and in more than one way!  Check out the sorting we did with leaves earlier this week.  We had fun just gathering them from the field.

Today we were learning about patterns and read "Beep, Beep, Vroom, Vroom".  This is from a great math series written by Stuart J. Murphy.

This is what we created using colourful links.

In Literacy, we have been learning about recounts.  A recount is telling about something that has already happened.  Today a student did an excellent recount of a book she read and used the sequence words (first, then, next, finally) to tell the order of the events in the story.  Please look for the Story Recount sheet to be coming home in the Homework Folder today!!!

Welcome Back!!!

Dare I say that school is almost here?  I am really excited to start the new year and can't wait to meet my new students.  I have been in and out of the school this week and have almost finished setting up the classroom. I have added a new Writing Centre by the Word Wall for students to use when they are writing.  This Writing Centre consists of my own teacher desk.  I figured, why not!  I never sit at it anyway so let's put it to good use.

Looking forward to seeing everyone!  See you September 2!

Summer Holiday!!!

Hi everyone,

I just wanted to say that I had such a great year with all of my students.  We did some excellent learning!  There was never a day that I did not smile or laugh at something going on in our class.  It was so sad to see my class walk out of the school yesterday, i will truly miss you all over the summer.  Please enjoy your summer and stay safe.  Remember to read and write every day.  See you in September!

Synthesize: to transform our thining

What is the author trying to teach us?  That is the big question.  We are digging deeper into our reading.  How does our thinking change from the beginning of the book to the end of the book?  Is the author trying to tell us something?