It was a warm day at Ian Baillie today! We started off our day with our regular routine.  We opened our agenda's and I collected memo's, fee's, and responded to notes.  The students set up their language arts page.  We worked on Word Wall Words, a "How to eat breakfast" introduction, and we doodled a cat.  We also started some of our Daily 5 activities.  The 5 activities that we can choose to work on each day.  Today we filled up our book boxes and went over the expectation of our "read to self" activity. 

After a beautiful outdoor recess we had math.  In math we also work on 5 different activites.  We a listening quiz, where students number 1 to 5 and I read them different numbers to see if they know them.  We then did "Math with a friend".  Students were paired up today and played poison pill.  They were given 9 yellow blocks and 1 blue block.  Each student took a turn and had to take 1, 2, or 3 blocks each turn.  Who ever was forced to take the final blue block (poison pill) lost.  You can try at home with 2 different types of coins.  We finished off with "Math by Myself".  Students were given 5 minutes to do as many questions as they could on an Math worksheet .  We also talked about patterns.  What is a pattern, and what is the core?

After lunch we had You and Your world.  We are doing our community unit.  The first part is to talk about your family.  Family are the people that you care about and that care about you.  Sometimes we have more than one family, like our home family, our school family, or our hobby families.   We did a quick portrait of the people we would put in our home families. 

Next we had PE with Mrs. McFarlene.  Did I see a giant parachute in the gym?

We finished off the day reading a chapter from "Flat Stanley".  Do you remember what made him flat?  How did his parents afford to send him to California?  We also worked with number song in French.  Can you figure out how to say your phone number in French?  We got our agenda's signed and we had a quick dance party to celebrate a great day!

The first week is going so well, make sure you get lots of sleep and I will see you in morning!