Monday February 29, 2016

Today's Learning:
- Grade 6 guest presentation about book gifts and D.E.A.R. time this week
- Gym: gymnastics: balance, travel, strength and stretches
- D.E.A.R. 15 minutes of uninterrupted individual reading
- Class meeting: what kinds of questions do we ask?  how are we recording the different kinds of questions we are asking during school time? how can we ask "thinking" questions? reviewing our tally marks on the board
(desk/seating plan change)
- Literacy Centres - word families, nouns/pronouns/verbs/proper nouns, animal classification, word formation, student/teacher word recognition
- D.E.A.R. - 15 minutes of uninterrupted individual reading
- Health - new projects - Topics: fire prevention, first aid, pedestrian safety, bike safety
- Ipod reward time for 'pom pom jar'
- Math - warmup: which number doesn't belong? working in paris to solve the problem

Ask me:
- to show you the book I received today
- who my health project partner is and what our topic is (fire prevention, first aid, pedestrian safety, bike safety)
- where I sit now, after our desk change
- how I spent my REWARD TIME on the iPods
- to show you how I used the virtual math manipulatives

Reminders:
March Newsletter notice sent home with youngest student
Pizza forms for lunch on March 16

Friday February 26, 2016

Today's Learning:
Class Meeting - gathering different kinds of questions (
Math: 'Place Value' tasks (3 groups) - building numbers using place value mats, virtual manipulatives and creating teacher/student questions using various formats: (expanded notation, standard form and written form)
Body Break: L/R Brain Teaser and High Low
Math: place value practice using math websites
Swimming
Class meeting - tallying today's kinds of questions
Stories: 'My Think-a-ma-jink' and 'Pierre le poof!'

Ask me:
- what 'virtual' means (example 'virtual manipulatives')
- how I survived the waves during swimming today
- what kinds of questions I asked today (can, is, who, what, why, where, when, how)
- to accurately spell - eight, ninety and forty-five

Reminders:
- March is 'Nutrition Month'

Thursday February 25, 2016

Today's Learning:

Math - place value tasks - using the base ten block picture representation, write the number. (4 different numbers), how are these numbers alike; how are they different? individual use of green/yellow/red cups to show understanding of task

Body Break - L/R and Hi low

Music - pls see music blog
Laptop cart - online place value practice
Swimming
Class meeting - discussion about water safety and expectations for swimming/pool behaviour, head lice reminders - no hugging, sharing brushes, brushing others' hair
Body Break: High low - 2nd verse

Ask me:

- how the 'hi lo' song goes:
      Hi low, chick-a-low, chick-a-low, chick-a-low
      Hi low, chick-a-low, chick-a-low, hi

      Low hi, chick-a-high, chick-a-high, chick-a-high
      Low hi, chick-a-high, chick-a-high
- to show you the virtual manipulatives website:  http://www.glencoe.com/sites/common_assets/mathematics/ebook_assets/vmf/VMF-Interface.htmlhttp://www.glencoe.com/sites/common_assets/mathematics/ebook_assets/vmf/VMF-Interface.html
- to show you the math website where I can do free daily math practice:
www.ixl.com   click on Grade 3 math "264 skills", scroll down to "place value"
- to show you the 'place value puzzler": open a Google search, type "place value puzzler", click on the 2nd link down that says "FunBrain.com"

Reminders:

- pls check my backpack for a head lice notice
- bring a healthy snack for after swimming LAST DAY TOMORROW!

Wed February 24, 2016

Today's Learning:
Math - more place value tasks: ex: "What number has 3 in the tens place and 6 more in the ones?"
Body Break - "Left; Right Brain Teaser"
Music - pls see music blog
Class story: "Equal Shmequal"
Swimming
Math - number review

Ask me:
- how I improved in swimming today
- what I was most proud of during my swimming class today
- the definitions of these math vocabulary words: worth? fewer? more than? equal?
- what 'equal shmequal' means
- how does a teeder-todder represent an equal sign?
- can an equal sign be moved to a different place in an equation?
- what kinds of questions I asked today
- how I modeled good 'sportsmanship' skills today
- how can I improve my 'sportsmanship' skills for the remainder of the week

Reminders:
- hang bathing suit and towel to dry
- Oops! Another Head Lice notice was supposed to go home today - it will tomorrow

Tues February 23, 2016

Today's Learning:

Math - "Place Value" Party

     - exploring digits - hundreds, tens and ones.

Body Break - "LEFT, RIGHT" Brainteaser

Left, right,

you’re wrong. Its...

not left, its right.

And you’ll find it

left, right where you left it.

That’s right!

Music - pls refer the Music blog

Class Novel "Minimoys"

Swimming

Social Studies "Room 1 Geographic Magazine" cover page art

Ask me:

- to teach you the "Left/Right Brainteaser"

- "what questions did I ask in school today?"

- how I improved today in swimming. 

Reminders:

- hang my towel and swimsuit

- swimming tomorrow :)

Reminders:

Monday February 22, 2016

Today's Learning:

Class meeting
Gym - 3+ laps, individual mat work (balances and travel)
Math - Number of the day '90', questions about this number, re-teaching 'expanded notation'
Swimming
Math - place value - 'Brain Pop' video, word wall, easy/hard quiz

Ask me:
- what 'expanded notation' means.
             - ex: 3084 = 3000 + 80 + 4 also   492 = 400 + 90+ 2
- how I enjoyed swimming
- about these 'math words' - place vale, digit, less than, more than
- what this tricky number is: 7 tens and 55 ones.  ask me to draw this number and explain why it is NOT 755 (answer is: 125)

Reminders:
- hang or wash swimsuit and towel, so they are dry for tomorrow
- wear bathing suit under clothes tomorrow, pack underwear for after

Fri Feb 19, 2016

Today's learning:
Gym: warmup: 3+ running laps, gymnastics - balance, travel and partner work
L.A. - Literacy Centres:
Science - Learning Commons computers completing "I wonder...." research questions
Class novel: Arthur and the Minimoys
Class meeting
ASSEMBLY
Body break
Math: Today's number is 75 - draw the number in base 10 blocks; the number just before is....; the number just after is....; 10 more than the number is.....; 10 less than the number is?; written in expanded notation is; odd/even?; written in words is; this number is a multiple of?; 25 more than the number is?; 3 other ways to make the number is?

Ask me:

- about today's number

- how I improved my sportsmanship skills today.

- if I demonstrated good group work habits during literacy centers

Reminders:

Swimming all next week, during the afternoons. Pls pack swimsuit, water bottle, towel and hair brush, if needed