Hello everyone, today we had a long day as it was raining outside and we did not get a chance to go outside and burn off some of our energy! We hope it does not rain tomorrow.  Today in math class we worked on increasing patterns and did ten multiple choice questions together on the smart board.  In language arts classwe learned about comprehension. Do you remember what comprehension is? (it means checking for understanding). We also read another chapter in our book The Mouse and the Motorcycle. Do you think he and Keith will ever find the motorcycle again?  Tomorrow is going to be a very busy day.  We have a special guest coming to our class tomorrow and it is picture day, (don't forget your smiles!) It is also hot lunch tomorrow.  We will be having Ed Sub's turkey sandwiches. See you tomorrow!

Good day everyone. Well, today we had a pretty good day. We had three rounds of Daily 5 today and we are now up to 14 minutes of Read to Self and we are now working very hard to build our stamina on our writing skills.  Miss Gallant taught us a lot of different ways that we can work on our writng.  We can write a letter or a narritive story, (what are the five parts of a narritive again?) We can also wirte our opinion of something. An example would be, I like the book The Mouse and the Motorcycle because...Or we could also write out a list, that is also a form of writng.  We will continue to work on this tomorrow.    Mr. McCallum also continued to teach the students about patterns. Today we reviewed our patterns and learned about our first chess piece, the knight. We have a spelling test tomorrow.  Books went home today for our borrow a book program.  The children are responsible for changing their books each morning. The books you will find in your childs bag are two levels back from thier June level.  This is common procedure in all grades 1 to 3 to allow the child to read the book without frustration.       

  Another busy day. I always tell the students that I love making mistakes because its how we learn.  I made a big mistake today when I was trying to update our green homework books and ended up making a royal mess of them all... so no calendar work tonight.  SORRY!! Even the teacher makes mistakes.  In math today we reviewed Attributes, repeating and increasing patterns, and talked about our "Counting on" strategy on our number lines for when we play " Around the World" with flash cards.   We reviewed the 5 parts of a narrative in Language Arts, and Mr. Lange took us on a virtual tour of the worlds largest pillow fight!  Our borrow a book program starts tomorrow night so please check the book bags tomorrow for leveled reading books (I'll talk about that more in Thursday's Agenda Note).  ON A SIDE NOTE - Despite today being an overall very good day, unfortunately I had a couple of upset students at the end of the day today.  Even though we are still learning the classroom routines many of us are finding it difficult to distinguish between finishing our work and playing, and finishing our work and choosing a responsible choice.   It is now the third week of school and we have talked about responsible choices and not making noise when others are working or when the teacher is talking.  Since our transitions wasted so much time today we will have to practice for the first 5 minutes of recess tomorrow.  For those who are upset, remember even if you understand you need to give a friendly reminder to a classmate!  We win as a team!