September 18, 2017

Good afternoon!

Today was a successful Monday. We started our day with music this morning and then moved into starting a math assessment which we will be completing in chunks over the next few days. It was frustrating for some students to look at math that was learned last year, but it will help Ms. Laird to understand where the biggest areas of need are for both the grade 4 and 5 students. We stopped to look at two questions in particular and discuss strategy as well as the language of the questions and what was actually being asked.

After recess we moved into science where students had the opportunity to share their existing knowledge of weather. I am incredibly impressed at how much students have already retained from our discussions about hurricanes and tornadoes and am excited for students to start thinking about weather in broader terms, taking into consideration the role that oceans and wind currents play in our daily and seasonal weather.

After lunch students had their last finish up time for their pillars of care writing, as well as some time to work on their comic strip. Any students who did not complete their pillars of care writing were asked to take it home for completion.

We also took some time this afternoon to do a temperature reading and see how students are doing with solving interpersonal problems. We had some great feedback on how students are dealing with problems that are occurring outside on recess or in the gym and how we can support each other to make good choices in different ways. We are a community in room 18 and we have a multitude of options for helping each other! So why not tap into each other as a resource?

Lastly, we will have our first period on computers tomorrow morning and students will need their digital citizenship forms returned to school before they can participate. We will be learning/reminding ourselves of how to navigate GoogleDrive as it will be an integral part of programming this year.

Have a lovely evening!