Monday, May 30, 2018

Good afternoon families of room 18!

Here is a quick recap of what we worked on today:

We began the morning with an introduction to wetlands in the form of a K-W-L chart. In this activity, students present what they already know about wetlands and questions they have about wetlands. It is very possible that we all had a case of the Mondays, but students had many questions they would like answered but were slow to offer up what they already knew about Wetlands. I have a feeling they know more than they let on, though. Over the next few weeks, students will be working on a Wetland project as a performance task.

After this, we had music and then came back to class to work on some finish up activities. Many students are now finished their Ted Harrison Art, with a few needing to donate some of their lunch hour tomorrow in order to access the pastels in the classroom. While students were working on this, we also worked on finishing up more of our assessments from our last social studies unit. This is the assessment that involves either a two minute recording or a short write up reflecting on how certain documents or processes changed Canadian identity.

We also built some mathletics time into our morning because there is a schoolwide challenge going on and because I have not provided oodles of class time to work on mathletics, our classroom is currently in last place. Oh dear! Over the next few weeks, we will build this into our math time while splitting between grade 4 and 5 curriculum.

This afternoon we discussed a new story planner and began brainstorming how to structure the story for our best work, went to gym to play badminton, read aloud from Fish in a Tree and did guided reading to catch up on what we have missed over the last little bit.

Reminders:
-Fun lunch order forms due Wednesday
-Fun lunch on May 8th
-Spring photos are on Wednesday
-Grade 5 vaccinations on MAY 10TH!