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Tuesday 30 September 2014

Tuesday, September 30, 2014

Terrific Tuesday!

In the morning we learned about antonyms in Language Arts. We first determined that antonyms are opposites and then we came up with a list on the white board. Afterwards, students played a game about antonyms that was similar to ‘Go Fish’. Students asked their partner if they had the antonym for the cards they had in their hand. We will continue playing this game tomorrow.




After students had physical education with Ms. Lovan.

When students returned we learned about adding and subtracting. We first did a problem together and then played a game where we needed to add and subtract up to 18. Students were given a game board and number cards. If students were able to add and subtract the number cards they were given, they were able to move two spots. Students were given ten frames and counting cubes to help with their addition and subtraction.









After first recess and lunch, students had French.

When students returned they wrote their homework in their agendas and then we inquired into local and global foods. We learned that local foods are grown in Canada and that global foods are grown outside of Canada and then brought by a boat, airplane, or truck. Students worked on making a chart of local and global food using fliers from the grocery store.







After second recess and lunch we continued with our novel study, reading Flat Stanley’s The Japanese Ninja Surprise.  We then wrote antonyms of words found in the chapter.

At the end of the day, students finished working on their local and global food chart.

Homework:

1.     Look over UOI summative assessment
2.     Read for 20 minutes. Choose an I “pick” book
3.     Spelling Test Friday
4.     Math test signed

5.     Spelling test signed

Monday 29 September 2014

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Monday, September 29, 2014

Marvelous Monday!

This morning students had art with Mr. Monaghan and physical education with Ms. Lovan.

When students returned we reviewed the summative assessment for our unit of inquiry that students will begin on Wednesday. Students will be working on the assessments in class. A rubric and an outline of the assignment are going home today. We then worked on a Venn diagram, finding comparisons and differences between Mississauga and India. We focused on food, clothing, shelter, transportation, and recreation.

During math, we created number line mysteries for our friends. Students were given a number line up to 50 and asked to cover up five numbers. Their partner needed to figure out which numbers were missing and explain how they know (ex: I know number 16 is missing because 16 comes before 17 and after 15). Students then worked on a number line activity in their Math Makes Sense. Afterwards, we used our number line to count by 2s, 5s, and 10s.





During first recess, Klara was teaching the students some Karate and how to count to 10 in Korean.

After first recess, students went off to French.

When students returned, they wrote their homework in their agendas.

After second recess and lunch, students wrote out their spelling words for unit 4 and demonstrated their understanding of each word in their spelling workbooks.

We then continued learning about Daily 5. This week we will be focusing on writing. On the board, ‘work on writing’ was modeled for the students.  We learned that we work on writing by thinking about our ideas; it was modeled for the student what happens in a writer’s head. As we came to words that we were not sure of how to spell, they were underlined and the writing continued. It is important to move on when a word may be too difficult to spell so we can maintain the flow in writing and not lose our thoughts; we will come back to the words we are unsure of how to spell after we have finished writing down all our thoughts and ideas.


Homework:

1.     Read for twenty minutes. Choose an IPICK book.
2.     Sign Spelling Test
3.     Sign math Test

4.     Look over UOI assessment

Friday 26 September 2014

Friday, September 26, 2014

Fantastic Friday!

We began the day doing a spelling test and then working in our cursive books.

After students had physical education with Ms. Lovan.

When students returned we learned about estimating in math. We looked at a big picture of a squirrel collecting nuts for the winter. We first estimated how many we thought there were and then we counted by 5’s to see if we were correct. Next, we were given either markers or counting cubes and estimated how many there were and then counted the items by grouping them. We were counting by 2’s, 5’s, and 10’s today. Students also completed 2 pages in their Math workbooks.





Afterwards we made Japan posters. We brought pictures of five features of Japan (food, shelter, transportation, leisure and clothing) and we made travel posters.














After first recess and lunch, students had French.

When students returned they wrote their homework in their agendas and then finished working on their Japan posters.







After second recess and lunch we worked on how to write and put together proper sentences. Students were each given broken up sentence strips and needed to figure out how to put the sentences back together. Students needed to make sure there was a capital at the beginning, a period at the end, and also reading it over to make sure the sentence makes sense. Students were also given a noun, verb, and adjective chart to fill in as they put their sentences together.













Homework:

1.     Spelling test signed
2.     Read for 20 minutes. Students are to pick a book based on the I “pick” strategy 





Students also can practice the three ways we learned to read a book during Daily 5.




Have a great weekend!!