September 29

Do you want to know what we did today?  We had the day of our life!  We started off with math.  We played a game called BACON.  The die is rolled, we total our score and watch out for the Pig!  if the pig is rolled, we lose our score.  Then we had writing.  We wrote more about Terry Fox.  We talked about revising and editing our piece.  After recess we had French for two periods.  We had to talk about the rooms in our homes in french.  Then we made appointment clocks.  We are waiting to see what those are for.  After lunch today we had a short patrol meeting.  It was supposed to be longer, but Constable Buduhan was sick today.  We took pictures of each squad for the bulletin board. Theme was next, we are working on the maps of our islands.  Some people are almost done.  We had recess and we are hoping for a chapter of Hatchet.  Last period is gym, we're sure it will be fun.

September 28

To start our day we had problem solving.  In problem solving, we had to choose our problems from one of the four different categories.   The first category is easy, and they get harder as they move up. After recess, we had library, followed by music.  During music we were at the instruments, we played the song we learned on Friday.  After lunch, we had theme.  We reviewed our maps.  We sat on the carpet and shared our ideas about our maps.  Some of us are ready to start our good copies.  Today was an awesome day.  We are hoping to read next.  We will end the day with gym, we are hoping for a good class with the substitute.

September 25

Today is Friday!   We had music for our first period.  Later we had our first visit with our grade one  reading buddies.  After recess we had writing.  We had health today too.  We learned and practiced some Yoga poses and balloon breaths.  After lunch we had theme again.    In theme we had to choose a location for our island.  We started drawing a map of our island.  We are hoping Miss Pattie has time to read more from Hatchet.

September 24

Today we started off with math.  We learned a new game.  Then we had gym.  We had double French.  We learned parts of conversations that we can have.  We can ask each other how old we are.  At lunch today was the first meeting of the intermediate choir.  After lunch we had theme for three periods again.  Most of us finished our lists of supplies for our sea chests.  We started making plans for when we first step off of the boat onto our island.  We're hoping Miss Pattie reads more from Hatchet next.

September 23

Today we started off with math.  We played a game called "Scoot".  We had to solve the math question, and when Miss Pattie called Scoot, we had to move to a new place and solve that question.  Then we had gym, we played bench tennis.  After recess we had French.  We played a game called J'ai..., Qui a...  Miss Pattie read a book in french,  we had to use the pictures and words we knew to figure the book out.  After lunch we had Theme.  We used the ipads again, we were working on our lists for our sea chests.  We continued with this after recess as well.  We are starting our final copies of what we are bringing to our new settlement.  We had three periods of Theme today. We will finish the day with reading.

September 22

Today we started off with music.  We did another partner dance, it was a square dance. Then we had writing.  We had to write down different starters for a paragraph about Terry Fox.  We had Theme after lunch.  Then we had a special guest come in.  The guest talked about having a hearing loss.  She brought two bears with hearing aids so we could look at them.  Today is early dismissal.

Students who come to me with the message "I saw it" will receive a prize tomorrow!

September 21st

Today was a busy and awesome day.  We started off with a math game.  We threw a ball and whichever question our thumb landed on, that was the one we had to answer.
We talked about our Theme project for the year.  We are going to start our own island country.  We started by planning what would go in our sea chest of supplies.  We are limited in what we can bring.  Everything must fit into the sea chest, and it can't weigh more than us.
After recess we had French.  We talked about common sentences that we should know.  Next we played a game.  Then we worked on wordsearches to practice familiar vocabulary.  After lunch we had Theme again.  We used the ipads to research size and weight of some of the items on our sea chest list.  We had a fire drill before recess.  Next we have gym.

September 18, 2015

Today we started off with problem solving.  We worked through the problems together.  We had our first library class today.  After that we had music.  In music, we learned a dance with partners.  Our partner kept switching throughout the dance.  After lunch we watched a video and we took some notes about Terry Fox.  Miss Pattie read us a book and we wrote a paragraph.  Next we will have gym.  We are hoping that we will have fun in gym.

In Math this morning, we looked at the multiplication table.  We focused on the facts that we already know and realized that there aren't many that we have to learn.  We learned a song that can help us learn the facts for each family.  Gym was great today, we got to play a new game called Gold Hunt.  We had French today for the first time.  We put the labels in our personal dictionary.  After lunch we had theme.  We listed the rules we had at home and at school.  We made nominations today for a variety of school committees.  We made a Y-chart for what writing looks/sounds/feels like in our classroom.  We had a great day, we had so much fun.

September 17th

We did a lot of stuff today.  We started off with music.  In music we played mirror.  We each had a partner, one person would do something and the other person had to copy them at the same time.  We had our first class meeting today.  We passed 'Spike' around and we had to either thank someone or tell something that we would like to change.  Then Mrs. Danyluk came for Health.  We introduced ourselves and something about ourselves.  Then she read us a story, Celia.  At lunch today, everyone who wanted to be a patrol, came to our room and watched a training video.  After lunch we had some free time.  After recess we talked about and discussed the writing process in our room.  Now we hope Miss Pattie reads us some more Hatchet!

Today was a great day.  We started our day with math, we played a game.  In art we traced our hands, we drew things about us and that we like on it.  Then we cut it out.  We talked about the multiple intelligences.  We brainstormed and listed different careers and the intelligences that are good for each of them.  We made a community brain to represent our class.  We had another fire drill.

September 14th

Today was a magnificent day.  First we had music, Mr Bychuk reviewed lockdown procedures with us.  Next we did some writing.  We wrote about our daily 5 choices.  We did a lot of writing today.  This morning we had our first fire drill.  After lunch we learned about the smarts and different learning styles.  We took a survey to see what our strengths were.  We finished our work early so we got to go out early for recess.  This was day 2 of the school year done!

Today was the first day of our new school year.  We had so much fun.  We made bookmarks this morning.  We hung from the monkey bars by one hand and Miss Pattie took our picture.  Next these will be cut out and laminated.  While the pictures were being taken we had some extra recess time.  We drew self portraits of ourselves.  They turned out great.  We drew pictures around them to represent things about us.  We made personal pennants to decorate the room.  This was our amazing day.