What a beautiful day at Ian Baillie! We started off with our regular routine. Our spelling word was "overflew", our "First, " was for "How to make a pie, and we doodled a shark. We did flouride and went to Mrs. Hills Class for Language Arts.

     In Language Arts today we did a read aloud and a writers workshop! What did you write about today? Did you add a detail sentence to go with your topic sentence?

     After recess we had math. In math we had a listening quiz on choosing units for measurement. Which unit would you use if you were measuring the height of your desk? The height of the school? The distance to Moncton? Next we did math with a friend and worked on addition facts 0-20. We talked about using string for measuring the distance around, and talked about using our feet to estimate.

     After lunch we had PE with Mrs. Hache. I saw everyone wearing weird vests with ribbons on the vests! Were you having a fashion show? What game were you playing?

     Then we had Art with Mrs. Hill. We walked into the room and it was all set up with big sheets of white paper on the tables! That usually means paint! How did you manage to paint such straight lines?

     It is dental health month, so we looked at a few ways to take care of our teeth. We did our book of gratitude, signed our agenda's, and got ready for home. 

     Dont forget that THE 100TH DAY OF SCHOOL is coming up this week and we will be dressing up! Provided there is no cancelations due to weather, the 100th day will be Thursday (if there is a snowday on Wednesday then its becomes Friday). I cant wait to see what you will wear when you are 100! Dress warm, get lots of sleep, and I will see you bright and early tomorrow! 

    It was a warm and wet day today at Ian Baillie.  We started off the day with our regular routine.  Our spelling word was "outdrew" and our "First," was for a pretend story "How to make cookies".  We doodled a dolphin and scored our own papers before we put them in our books.

    Next we went to language arts with Mrs. Hill.  We worked on word endings like "eat" and "eet".  What ending would you used for the body part you put in your socks?  We also did read to self, guided reading, and we looked at a 3 minute video on greetings in Arabic.  Why Arabic?  We stopped a bit early for a bathroom and snack break before skating.

    I stayed behind from skating today to help move books, cabinets, and funiture to get a classroom ready for the new Serian students who will be arriving tomorrow.  I was told skating was uneventful, which is a good report to me!

    After lunch we went to the computer.  We worked in Paint.  We made a picture called "Inside looking Out".  We saved it to our hard drive and went to gym. 

    In PE the gym teacher was much better looking than usual (it was me and not Mrs. Hache).  We warmed up, worked on using the backboard in basketball, and we played a tag game with the noodles.

    We finished off the day watching an animated short that tells the story of Saoussan, a young girl struggling to adjust to life in Canada after being uprooted from her wartorn homeland.  It was called From Far Away.  Several of our Serian students will arrive tomorrow and I know everyone is excited to welcome them.

     We have Library tomorrow afternoon, so please bring in your books.  Chloe still has time to give me the Principal of the Day Prize for Friday, so hopefully she comes to her senses and does that!  Otherwise get lots of sleep, dress warm, stay dry, and I will see you tomorrow. 

Friday was a surprise snowday! I hope you have a good long weekend. We started off the day with our regular routine. Our spelling word was "corkscrew" and I was really pleased that most people got the "ew" sound at the end correct. Our story for "First, " was "How to catch a wave". We doodled a fox and went to Language Arts with Mrs. Hill.

In Language Arts we did a read aloud. We practiced making words with different endings for word work. What endings can you add to "fast"? We also did our reading groups and talked about the Chinese New Year.

After recess we had math. We had a listening quiz and reviewed different ways to show a number. We did math with a friend flash cards for addition 0 to 20. Then we talked about two different units for comparing length and height, centimeters and meters. If I wanted to know the height of the bridge would I use meters or centimeters? How about your height?

After an indoor lunch we had computer! I asked my class to help Mrs. Hill's class log onto the computers using their individual accounts for the first time! After computer we had Art with Mrs. Hill.

In Art we made Red Chinese Lanterns. Why did you make lanterns this week? Whats special about this week in China?

We finished off the day in PE with Mrs. Hache playing basketball. She is making you dribble now! Is it faster to move the ball by dribbling or passing?

There was a memo that went home today it is in the front of the agenda. Interim reports go home tomorrow. Just a reminder to return the valentines day tickets this week as we will be having the draw this Friday! I've sold some tickets too! I hope I win principal of the day! Things will be different around here when I get to make up 3 rules for the day!

Have a great night, get lots of sleep and I will see you tomorrow!

As you know the webpage changed just before Christmas and it was brought to my attention yesterday that this new layout allows for indentation and paragraphs!  Everyday I talk about indentation when we write our "First," for our "How to..." stories.  Do you know what identing means?

     First, we did our opening activities.  We did our spelling word "aircrew" and our "First," was for "How to eat fruits and vegetables".  We doodled a dog and put our old pages in our books. 

     Next, we went to language arts with Mrs. Hill.  We worked on making words using the letters from the word "hybernate".  How many words did you make?  We also did some daily five read to self and we worked on a groundhog day word search.

     Then, we had a quick recess break before math. In math we reviewed place value, did math with a friend flash cards or dice game, reviewed how to measure with a ruler, did some measuring sheets, and went over the months of the year.

     After that, we had lunch, and after lunch we went to the computer lab.  Once students either showed me their saved copy of their valley paint picture, or finished their paint picture they got free time on the computer before PE with Mrs. Hache.  What did you do in PE today?

     Finally, we came back to the classroom and read from the one and only Ivan.  What is special about Ivan and his two friends?  Where do they live?  We did our book of gratitude and got our agenda's signed. 

     Make sure you get lots of sleep tonight and dress warmly tomorrow with all this snow!  Have a great night and I will see you in the morning.

It was a busy Friday at Ian Baillie!  We started off with our spelling.  Our word today was "engineer", our story for "First," was "How to make a cool class picture".  We doodled a sea turtle for the last time. In language arts with Mrs. Hill we did reading buddies with grade one and step two of the art project we started on Monday!  We'll be set for next weeks art now!.  After recess we had our assembly and balloon car race.  Congratulations to Brody in Grade 3 who won again!  After lunch we did a guided writing story about a boy who lost his lucky skittles.  Do you remember the writing pattern we used?   It was game day in PE with Mrs. Hache.  I saw lots of beet red faces, so I know everyone ran hard.  We finished off the day with a quick bingo game.  We packed the February calendars into our agenda and got ready for home.  Have a fun and safe weekend and I will see you bright and early Monday morning!

It was a busy day today at Ian Baillie!  We started off with our spelling word "electricity".  How many syllables does "electricity" have?  Our "First," was for a story called "How to learn Chinese" and we doodled a sea turtle.  In Language Arts with Mrs. Hill we did a read aloud, our daily 5 activities, and homophone.  Whats a homophone?  (too, two, to).  After recess we had math.  In Math we had a 3 minute listening quiz on completing math sentences.  We talked about the days of the week and using a calendar.  We used a ruler and did some measuring sheets.  After we came in from outside we had hot lunch!  Thank you to all the volunteers that help make that possible!  After lunch we went to the computer room.  Everyone worked in the program PAINT to complete a valley scene.  I hope you saved yours properly so that you can have a free choice day next time we are in the lab!  After computer we had P.E.  We worked on our basketball skills and even played a game!  After PE we came back upstairs and wrote in our book of gratitude, got our agenda's signed, and got ready for home.  Friday is our monthly assembly at 10:30, dont forget your balloon cars, and please bring in any loose change for the loose change award.  Get lots of sleep, dress warm, and I will see you tomororow.

Our spelling word today was "magician", and our "First," was for "How to do a Magic trick". We doodled a sea turtle and packed up our things for language arts.  In language arts we did a read aloud of the Fudge book.  We worked on our procedural writing for "How to Make Oreo Brownies".  We also worked in our journalsl.  After recess we had math.  We did a listening quiz, a subtraction sheet, played a dice game, and worked on comparing two different objects.  Which one is longer, taller, heavier? After lunch we had PE with Mrs. Hache and worked on our basketball skills.  Then we had Art with Mrs. Hill.  We started a new projects and got the mittens part completed.  We finished off the day with a 4 minute desk clean, and wrote in our book of gratititude.  We then got our agenda's signed and went home.  Dress warm, get lots of sleep and I will see you tomorrow!