Morning Routine

Math – We played “Mystery Number” as a class.The students had to figure out what number was on their back by asking questions about how many 10’s or how many 1’s their number had.

We learned a new math centre with the 100’s chart based on this idea. During math centres time I worked with Maggie, Adrita, Grayson, Leica, Sam, Jiselle, and Madi on a patterning task.

Recess

Daily 5 – The students wrote in their Weekend News Duotangs and then we had Flashlight Friday.

Lunch

Social – Some students had their interviews with people from our community to find out more about their jobs. The rest of the class worked on their Social duotangs.

French – Mme. Jasper

Recess

Orange Shirt Day – We learned about the origin of Orange Shirt Day (Phyllis’ Story). We listened to When I was Eight by Margaret Pokiak-Fenton and talked about the way Olemaun’s (the main character in the story) experience at a residential school made us feel, then wrote messages to Phyllis and Olemaun.

Morning Routine

Math – The class worked on math centres. I worked with Ava, Parker, Dominic, Charlie, Emery, Nev, Caden, Phil, Niki, Annalise, Kellan, and Chase on a patterning task.

Recess

Daily 5 – For Work on Writing we created thank you cards for our guests who are coming in this week/next week to be interviewed. The class did Read to Self for 15 minutes.

Lunch

Social – Some of the students interviewed guests from the community about their jobs. The rest of the class worked in their Social duotangs.

Recess

Terry Fox Walk

**Tomorrow is Orange Shirt Day!

***Tomorrow is the last day to bring in orders for the SCC Magazine Fundraiser.

Morning Routine

Math – We learned 3 new centres, a patterning in grids centre (as they enjoyed this so much yesterday), an activity where students have to figure out how to create a pattern that repeats only 3 times using ALL of the materials (not as easy as it sounds), and a place value centre with 10’s and 1’s. While the class worked on math centres, I worked with Max, Tiago, Eric, and Luke on a patterning task.

Recess

Daily 5 – For Work on Writing we created a “good copy” of our questions to ask our guests from the community who will be coming in Thursday/Friday/Monday. Revisions included remembering to start sentences with an uppercase letter and remembering to use punctuation (in this case, question marks) for EVERY sentence.

Lunch

Phys. Ed. – Ms. Bechard

Music – Mrs. Machnaik

Recess

PWIM – The students began working with their own sets of words based on our PWIM poster. We started some sorting activities today with these words.

Catch-up Time – The students had time to finish off their interview questions, Social books, or math grids.

Morning Routine

Math – We experimented with drawing patterns in grids with colours and our names.

Recess

Daily 5 – In 4 groups, we rotated through Library/Read to Self, Read to Someone, Work Work, and Work on Writing. The students had their first opportunity to go to the library as a small group to take out books on their own.

Lunch

Phys. Ed.

Choice Centres

Recess

Social – We found out about all of the different kinds of workers from our community that will be coming in to visit us on Thursday/Friday. In pairs, we started planning questions to ask our guests.

Clean-up

Mail – School photo proofs were sent home today.

French

Morning Routine – We have been focusing on remembering to use uppercase letters at the beginning of our sentences and punctuation at the end of our sentences, as well as writing numbers correctly (4’s and 6’s are written backwards frequently).

Recess

Daily 5 – Jiselle, Tiago, and Charlie read for us from their Weekend News Duotangs. We did two rounds of Read to Self, and read “Brady Brady and the Twirlin’ Torpedo” as a class.

Lunch

Talking Circle – As a connection to our Social unit about communities, the students shared about the jobs that their parents have.

Genius Hour – We learned about mindful listening, and practiced with two different listening experiments. We discussed careers that require precise listening, such as EMS operators.

Recess

Social – We continued to brainstorm jobs in the community, and considered how our society is interdependent – we all depend on each other.

Quiet Time

**Thank you to everyone who has been fundraising for the school by selling magazines, as well as to those who donated to the Terry Fox Foundation.

***The SCC Welcome BBQ is tomorrow evening from 5-6 and Open House from 6-7.

Morning Routine

Math – We considered patterns in our lives (ie: wake up, go to school, go home, etc). We learned one new centre, Mobi, a Scrabble-type game with numbers.

**Math homework – Students are to explain to YOU the patterns in their day-to-day routines!

Recess

Daily 5 – In 4 groups, the students rotated through Read to Self, Read to Someone, Word Work, and Work on Writing. So proud of how independent the class is becoming! During this time, I continued to work on reading assessments.

Lunch

Talking Circle – We shared about people that we know that volunteer, and where we would want to volunteer in our community.

Social – We finished our books about people in our community who meet our needs.

Recess

Arts Ed. – Mme. Jasper

***The HSCC is in need of volunteers to help out with the HSCC BBQ on Tuesday, September 27^th, 2016.

If you are able to volunteer your time, or even part of the time, that would be awesome! Shifts include:

4:00-4:45pm:           Set-up

4:30-5:00pm:           Cook Halal Dogs

4:50-5:30pm:           Tickets/Front Door

5:30-6:00pm:           Tickets/Front Door

5:45-6:00pm:           Food Service

4:50-5:30pm:           Food Runners

5:30-6:10pm:           Food Runners

6:15-7:00pm:           Clean-up/Take Down

Please see the link below to sign-up.

http://www.signupgenius.com/go/30e0d44aeac2ba1fc1-welcome

This morning I was away for a Regina Public School Board orientation session. From what I hear the class had a lot of fun with the substitute teacher that was in 🙂

Morning Routine

Math – The students worked on centres.

Recess

Daily 5 – The students practiced Read to Someone with their new library books. For Work on Writing, the students wrote in their journals.

Lunch

Phys. Ed. – Ms. Bechard

Music – Mrs. Machnaik

Recess

PWIM – We finished shaking out our list of words, and as a class considered some of the different categories we could put our words into.

Author Study – We read “Knuffle Bunny Too” by Mo Willems. We talked about how we need to read both the words AND the pictures to make sure that we are not missing any information in a book.

Quiet Time

Mail

Morning Routine

Math – We learned two new math centres, Fill in the Blanks and an app called Pop Math. After math centres, the students worked on a patterning task.

Recess

Daily 5 – We went to the library as a class to learn the routine of finding and signing out books. Usually, small groups of students will go to the library independently to sign out books during our Daily 5 rotations.

Lunch

Phys. Ed. – We worked on underhand throwing skills and catching skills during some partner activities.

Social – We continued to work on our “Who meets our needs?” books. The students wrote about people our community who have jobs that help us meet our basic needs such as food, water, shelter, etc.

Recess

Choice Centres

Quiet Time

French – Mme. Jasper

Morning Routine

Recess

Daily 5 – We read parent responses from our Weekend News Duotangs. Ava, Emery, and Dominic read theirs for the class. We learned two new Word Work games – Sight Word Sort and Zonk! The students did 2 rounds of Read to Someone with different partners.

Lunch

Talking Circle – We shared ways that we can be more mindful this week at school.

Genius Hour – We practiced calming our bodies to regain control of our thoughts. We began  to train our brain to focus on only our breathing for 15 seconds – not as easy as you think, especially for 6-7 year olds! We will be using this as a self-regulation strategy to deal with stress, fear, anger, etc.

Social – We continued to work on our “Who meets our needs?” books.

Recess

Magazine Fundraiser Assembly – Order forms and prize information sent home today.

Mail

*I am still looking for single lost socks! We use them for erasing our mini whiteboards everyday. Please send them to school if you have any laying around. Thanks 🙂

Morning Routine

School Pictures – hitch-free! I did my best to smooth hair, fix collars, and make everyone look their best! 🙂

Recess

Daily 5 – Weekend News Duotangs and Flashlight Friday. Please read/respond and send back to school on Monday.

Lunch

Social – We started making our books about the people in our community who help meet our needs.

French – Mme. Jasper

Recess

Arts Ed. – We had our first Drama class today. We played a mirroring game, Captain’s Coming, and an acting game about opening gifts.

Quiet Time – We read “The Duckling Gets a Cookie?!” by Mo Willems.

Mail

Home Time