Today we started a mini project all about us... It is a bit of a surprise for you to see for our Curriculum Night next week so we don't want to give away too many details( hint: it includes some adorable drawings of us).
We are also well into Read to Self Independently as part of our Daily 5 literacy program. The students have been practicing picking good spots in the classroom to read in and increasing the stamina for independent reading time. It's great to see students making such responsible choices about where they sit and what they read so early in the school year. Today we started learning about "IPICK" books. See below to learn more about this as this is a good reference for both home and school when picking reading books.
We also finished our math game today and added in some basic bar graphing. For our activity, we first had to roll a die and place the corresponding number of blocks into a cup. When our cup was full, we needed to count the blocks, and sort them by colour. Lastyl, e made some bar graphs to represent how many blocks we had of each colour and reviewed the terms "most/least".
Thank you to both the students and parents for making this such a wonderful first week of school for everyone. I can't express enough how happy and excited I am to be at Ken Taylor and to be the teacher of your children! It has been such an exciting and energetic week and I look forward to many more together. Enjoy your weekend!
Reminders:
- Please send back envelopes as soon as possible
- Curriculum Night - Thursday Sept. 15 - 6:00 - 7:30
- early dismissal next Friday - Friday Sept. 16 @11:30
