Orange Shirt Day

Today is Orange Shirt Day!

Thank you for participating, everyone participated whether it was wearing an orange shirt, listening and respecting Phyllis' story (which we watched today), or creating an orange shirt on display.

We were careful posing

 We tried a selfie but it was hard to get everyone in.

For agendas today's notes were:
-Book order
-Read for 20 minutes
-Trip form Due Oct 6 (For the next trip!)
-Study for math!
-Recorder money/form
-International Day Materials


After we had our daily 5 stations and then went to PE with Mrs. Jans.

After PE we had math. We started off with math games. One game was Place Value Yahtzee where students had to roll three dice and fill in their yahtzee card. So if they rolled a 3, 3, and 6 they would look on their yahtzee card to a category where they can make that number.

Another game was flipping three cards, and creating the highest possible number they could and then writing the greater or less than sign with a partner. 

Another game was place value battleship where students have to write a number, then the other team has to ask questions such as: "Is your ten greater than 5?" Then they cross off the numbers the numbers that match the description.

The fourth game (ORDINAL NUMBER) was another rolling activity, where students rolled three dice, and had to write it out in standard form, and base ten form.

After math games, we worked on our review package. They received a new one today. It has been sent home for homework and practice for the test on Monday.

After math it was time for first lunch and recess. Wow three indoor recess days in a week!

After recess we had literacy. 

We had our spelling test today and after we watched Phyllis' story to further understand why we have Orange Shirt Day.

As it is the final day of September at school we celebrate our IB Learner Profile of the month which is "Inquirer." We started off with a class read aloud with the story "Dear Tooth Fairy" in which the main character Holly has SO many questions for the Tooth Fairy. After, we discussed what inquirers are and how we show our curiosity which is the attitude that goes with inquiry. We wrote sentences and drew photos to show how we are inquirers and posed a question we are curious about. 

After it was time for second recess and lunch. Indoors again!

After recess we continued with our inquiry and curiosity sheet and then moved into our International Day preparation! Then we got ready for home!

Have a wonderful weekend!

Thursday!

Today's notes for agendas are:

-Cursive and Spelling books due back tomorrow
-Book order
-Read for 20 minutes
-Food drive donation (Oct 3)
-Math worksheet (please note  - the whole package doesn't need to be complete we are working on review for our upcoming test on Monday)
-Orange shirt day tomorrow!
-International Day materials
-Recorder Money/Form

Then we went on to our daily 5 stations! The books we are reading are leveled books similar to Raz-Kids. Depending on the station students are working on different tasks. They rotate between reading to a buddy, reading on their own, listening to reading, word work, and reading with me.

After that they went to PE with Mrs. Jans.

After PE we began our math review. Our Math test will be on Monday. We will be reviewing and doing activities to reinforce the concepts we have learned! Only the first page of the package sent home needs to be completed though they may complete the entire sheet if they wish.

Today students worked on correcting all of our previous math worksheets and we reviewed our concepts which are:
-Skip counting using a hundreds chart, and beyond hundreds
-Counting on a number line
-Modelling 2 digit and 3 digit numbers
-Ordinal numbers
-Comparing and ordering numbers
-Rounding numbers

When students were finished they started their review package.

After math we had first lunch and recess...with another bake sale.

After we had literacy. As we are working on forming sentences. Today we looked at compound sentences and using conjunctions such as "and" "so" and "but" to make two short sentences into a compound sentence. We started to model and practice writing these sentences.

Next the students had music with Mr. Oliver, and then French with Mme. Stella.

Then it was time for second lunch and recess.

After recess we discussed Orange Shirt Day. We had a very rich discussion about residential schools and why we have Orange Shirt Day. We created our orange shirts with "Every Child Matters" on it, they designed their shirts and they are hanging up outside our classroom.

"What is Orange Shirt Day?

Orange Shirt Day is a legacy of the St. Joseph Mission (SJM) residential school commemoration event held in Williams Lake, BC, Canada, in the spring of 2013.  It grew out of Phyllis' story of having her shiny new orange shirt taken away on her first day of school at the Mission, and it has become an opportunity to keep the discussion on all aspects of residential schools happening annually. "

Then it was time for home!

Remember to wear an orange shirt tomorrow!

Have a wonderful night!

Wednesday!

Today we started our day off with agendas as usual, today's notes are:
-Spelling and Cursive (both pages 14-17) if incomplete
-Read for 20 minutes
-Food drive donation (Oct 3)
-Math Worksheet
-Orange shirt day Friday
-International Day Materials (anything they want to bring in to prepare our displays)

There is also a recorder form about ordering recorders.

**Also, since there is so many goods from the bake sale we will be selling tomorrow so students can bring their money tomorrow**

Once they finished agendas they went straight to their Daily 5 stations. We are getting better at the pace of our agendas.

Afterwards we had PE with Mrs. Jans

Then we had math.

Today we looked at representing numbers in different ways. We looked at:
Standard form: 138
Base ten form: 1 hundred, 3 tens, 8 units
Word form: One hundred and thirty eight

We set up a scavenger hunt around the class room with pictures of base ten blocks in and students had to travel around the class to find the pictures and write the appropriate way to represent the number.

Afterwards students worked on questions individually.

Then we had lunch and recess OUTSIDE! Today was the bake sale again and since we have so many goods we will be selling again.

After recess we had literacy. we looked at sentence formation today. We started off looking at a few mixed up sentences and putting them into order so that it makes sense. We reviewed our success criteria for sentences which include: capitals, periods, and it makes sense!

After we looked at different sentences including asking sentences, and telling sentences.
We determined that asking sentences are questions and end in a question mark, telling sentences end in a period.

After literacy we had French with Mme Stella.

After French we had second lunch and recess.

Then we had UOI, we looked at the difference of wants and needs.We sorted images and defined what wants and needs are. After we discussed why they belong in those categories. After students created their own image and description of both a want and a need and explained why it is their want, and their need.

After we finished our wants and needs we continued working on our International Day project. The work is looking very good! Can't wait for it!

Terry Tuesday!

Wow what a day!

Today we started off with agendas. Today's notes were:
-Bake Sale
-Spelling and Cursive pg 14-17 (both books)
-Read for 20 mins
-Welcome back BBQ form
-Math worksheet
-Casual day tomorrow
-International Day materials
-Food drive donation (Oct 3)

Then we went to our Daily 5 stations!

Then we went to PE with Mrs. Jans

After we had math: today we had math centres. Today's learning goal was ordering and comparing numbers from the least to greatest and greatest to least.  We met Gatorman. He only likes BIG numbers...

We made a little bit of a mistake ordering the numbers from the greatest to least. As you can see the hundreds values are the same for a couple of numbers, that's where it got a little confusing so we discussed how we have to start from the hundreds and then move over to the ones when ordering. Why? Because there are 100 ones in the hundreds therefore it is the greater number.

Then we had math centers.

One station was ordering and sorting numbers.

Another station was math games with a partner rolling three dice to form three digit numbers. Then they had to write the greater or less than sign. 

Another station was working with me on a card activity to form the greatest numbers with three cards I gave them and then ordering and comparing the numbers.

The other group worked on the textbook questions.

And then we rotated every 15-20 minutes! The students received a practice worksheet for homework.

After math it was lunch and INDOOR recess (again!) Yikes in September

We had the bake sale. Thank you so much for bringing it some goods!

Then after lunch we had literacy we looked at forming sentences. We reviewed the work we did and corrected it and then continued working on forming sentences. 

After we had our Terry Fox Run, we did it inside the auditorium because of the heat. Students were very excited

After we had French with Mme Stella. 

Then we had second lunch and recess.

After we worked on our International Day preparations! We started making our banners, doing some research with the information we brought in and using our tablets or iPads. We also started working on our displays with the lovely photos. 

Then we had our Terry Fox assembly, and it was time for home!

Have a great night!

Marvelous Monday!

Happy Monday!

Today we started our day off with agendas, today's notes are:

-Read for 20 mins
-Spelling pg 14-17
-Cursive pg 14-17
-Bake sale
-Math worksheet
-Terry Fox Run tomorrow (wear PE clothes)
-International Day Research
-Welcome BBQ form
-Book order

After agendas students went to their Daily 5 stations, some students were able to use their tablets to read on Raz Kids.

I introduced the students to our bean jar, which is a jar that will be filled with beans when we follow our classroom rules and are caring and kind classmates in and out of the class. When we reach the first line we get extra golden time/recess. The second line is being decided after hearing their voices, the third line and the top of the jar is a class jar.

Then we went to PE with Mrs. Jans.

After PE we had math. During math we learned about ordinal numbers. We lined up in order from tallest to shortest and called out our place in line. Ordinal numbers determine the position of something in a list. 

We then looked at a calendar and created a chart and realised that "th" is usually the ending but for first, second, and third it's a little bit different. Then we worked in our workbooks to find the ordinal numbers for letters in the alphabet, months of the year, and certain numbers on the hundreds chart.

After we had first lunch and recess (inside - heat wave in Sept?)

After recess we had literacy. We started off with spelling. We discussed what vowels are to figure out the words, opposites, rhymes, and full sentences.

Then we moved on to cursive writing.

After cursive we looked at sentences. We looked at how complete sentences are formed, and arranging sentences into the proper order.

Then we went to French with Mme. Stella. 

After French, we had second lunch and recess (indoors again 😎)

After recess we took some time to discuss how we want to present our international day research. 

Then we had UOI. We looked at an introduction to wants and needs. Before we talked about what we think they are. After watching the Berenstein Bears and the Gimmies we were able to have a rich discussion about what a want is, and what is a need. We brainstormed a list of wants which included things like candy, and toys. Needs are things we need for survival like healthy food, and water). We related this to our upcoming visit to the food bank how we are giving people some needs.

I challenged the students to ask their parents next time they go shopping to ask you is this a want or a need?

Fantastic Friday

Today we started off our day with agendas. Today's notes are:

-Bake sale
-Book order
-Read for 20 minutes
-Welcome back BBQ form
-Math Package
-International Day research
-Toonie for Terry
-Food drive item

When they were finished agendas they proceeded to math centres. On Monday we will be doing Daily 5!

Then it was time for PE.

After PE we had math, we looked at rounding to the nearest 10 and 100 again. We are practicing our steps to rounding which are:

1) Underline the place value of the value we are looking for
2) Look to the right next door!
3) Is it up to the sky line or down to the floor?
4) Change the next number up if it's to the sky line or keep it the same if it's down to the floor
5) The rest of the numbers turn 0

Then we split into groups to focus on rounding. One group worked on the textbook questions and the other worked on some guided practice questions before working independently. We used number lines to help us visualise which hundreds or tens we should round to.

After math we had first lunch and recess. Remember to get October lunch orders in!

After recess we had our spelling test! The two bonus words this week were:
-shook
-sold

Everybody in the class did very well!

Then we had music with Mr. Oliver and French with Mme. Stella.

Then we had second lunch and recess.

Then it was time for UOI! We looked at laws yesterday and students were able to remember that laws are rules we need to follow, and if we break them there is a consequence. We went through our classroom rules and reinforced the consequences when you break a rule.

We then looked at each other's laws from yesterday. We were respectful and celebrated our work with stars and a wish. Students were then asked to exercise their decision making skills as a group and decide on one law they want to pass to add to our classroom rules poster. They worked as a group to practice and present their law.

After the presentations and some time for reflection they votes anonymously (privately). The law that was passed was...

"We will be kind to our classmates, and use kinds word"

We have worded it so that it is positive rather than "don't use mean words."

Afterwards students were given golden time and Tribes time for 10 minutes to enjoy some time in the classroom.

Then we handed out agendas and got ready for home!

Have a lovely weekend, cheers!

Thursday Sept 21, 2017

Today we started our day off with agendas. There was a lot to write in today's agenda, and they worked very well this morning to complete what was on the agenda and start their math centres in the time before PE! However there are some things to be aware of that was a lot for them to write this morning. 

1. Read for 20 minutes
2. Math worksheet
3. Spelling test tomorrow
4. International Day research is due on Monday about Pakistan. Each child will be given a topic to research about. They are also being asked to also bring in 3-4 pictures related to their topic (colour if possible) along with their research. (We've changed the country as for the support that will be given for the country by parents in the class - thank you!)
5. Food Bank items for our trip on October 3
6. Two dollars in support of Terry Fox
7. BBQ form is due September 27
8. St. Jude’s and Oakwood Welcome BBQ will take place on Monday October 2.
9. Bake Sale on Tuesday September 27 – The Grade 2’s will be running the bake sale. If possible, parents are being asked to bring in peanut-free items on this day. Also students can bring in money on Tuesday and Wednesday for the Bake Sale

Here are some photos from our math centres! Today we had math games, math with a buddy, and math on your own. Tomorrow they will get to try a different station. 

After they went to PE.

After PE, we had our math lesson. Today we looked at rounding numbers to the nearest 10 and 100. We started off with a problem and visual on the board... I live at house number 162 and the bus only stops at  house 100 and 200 so which stop would I get off at? They were able to tell me that I should get off to house 200 because it is closer. We then tried different numbers to check for understanding. After,  I introduced them to the rounding coaster, and a chant. We did the actions with our bodies. (1,2,3,4 down to the floor, 5,6,7,8,9 up to the sky line) We then played a short game where they would either go up or down for the number.

After math we had first lunch and recess.

After recess we had literacy, students were asked to write about a time when they had to make a decision. This is related to our unit of inquiry as yesterday's lesson was on decision making. 

We co-constructed our success criteria which was: capitals, periods, reasons, choice, adjectives and the challenge of our conjunctions (connecting words) such as also, but, and then. 

After literacy it was French with Mme. Stella.

After French we had second lunch and recess.

Then it was time for UOI, today we looked at laws and their purposes. We talked about how we created our rules as a class at the beginning of the year and read a story called "What if everybody did that?" We also talked about the consequences and rewards of following rules and laws. Afterwards students created their own laws and explained why they are important.

And then it was time for home, we handed out homework, agendas and the welcome back BBQ form. 

Have a wonderful night!

Wacky Wednesday

Today we started our day off with agendas as usual, we are getting quicker at writing them!
The notes for today are:

Book order
Read for 20 minutes
Math worksheet
Spelling and Cursive if not complete
Toonie for Terry
Food drive item (Oct 3)

Bell work was completing math challenges related to patterning.

Then we went to PE with Mrs Jans

After PE we had math! Today we created a number line with clothespins and string

Today we looked at comparing numbers on a number line, and filling in the spaces. As a class we created our timeline. We had benchmark numbers and then students were asked to pin their number on the clothesline. Afterwards we looked at how this would look on a number line on paper. We learned that we need to draw a dot and an arrow to represent where we are making our estimate for a number.

We worked on the textbook questions in class and the math sheet has been sent home for homework. No textbook tonight!

After math we had first lunch and recess.

After recess we had literacy. We reviewed what nouns, verbs and adjectives are and we looked at creating proper sentences. We identified each of those features of writing in sentences together and then we took some broken sentences and made them full sentences with adjectives, nouns, and verbs. After, students worked in pairs or groups of three to put together more broken sentences.

After we had music with Mr Oliver and then French with Mme. Stella, then it was time for second lunch and recess.

After recess we had UOI. For UOI we had our election, students privately went behind their booths and cast their vote of whether to keep math or not! After the vote we tallied the results and shockingly even after yesterday's debate and outpour the students voted to get rid of MATH! AH!

the votes were 10 to 7 which was very close. (Of course we are not getting rid of math) 

We then looked at a video of how voting has changed. We discussed how children cannot vote and only adults over 18 can. We looked at the past and present and how women were not allowed to vote in the past. We also talked about how it is important to vote when you get the change to do so because in some countries there is no choice!

Then it was time for home.

Cheers!!

Terrific Tuesday

We started our day off with agendas today's notes read:

-Bake sale (I will be e-mailing you all about this) Our class along with a few others are responsible for the bake sale next week. If you are able to and would like to bring in some good please feel free to; more details on the way:) )
-Read for 20 mins
-Math page 13-15 Q1-6 (We completes our number lines in class) I have sent home a worksheet
-Spelling pg 10-13 (if not completed)
-Cursive pg. 10-11 (if not completed)
-Toonie for Terry
-Food Drive donation

After we watched a short video on Terry Fox; they had a lot of questions about amputees, what is cancer, why did Terry lose his leg, and were very interested. They were very impacted by his story, as they went to run in PE with Mrs. Jans I observed them running and saying WE RUN FOR TERRY!

After PE we went outside to start Math. We created a number line with our bodies and each student represented a number. We tossed a ball counting by 2's starting from 1's, and then from 2's. The first time through for each team their times were over 45 seconds, but then the second time they improved to under 30 seconds.

When we came back in we displayed a number line on chart paper, we filled it in together and started skip counting on it. We skip counted by 2's, 5's and 10's...but we had a problem! What do we do if the number cuts off! We have to continue down to the next line

We practiced and modeled as a class skip counting forwards and backwards on the number line. After they moved into their independent questions and completed question 1 a and b in the textbook and then I gave them the rest of the questions on the board which were counting by 2, 5, and 10's forward and backwards with the number line for numbers 1-50. The homework sheet is in their agenda.

After math we had first lunch and recess, we were greeted by students from Oakwood for the Bake Sale!

After lunch and recess we had a discussion about international day. The country that we will be researching and presenting on is...Trinidad and Tobago...I asked the students to find out a fact tonight about it. If you are able to help out on this day please let me know, in any way possible.

After we did literacy. We reviews nouns, verbs, and started to look at adjectives today. We learned that they are describing words for nouns. We came up with a few sentences together and then the students worked independently on their own sentences.

In order to be successful we co constructed our success criteria which was:

• Adjective 
• Noun
• Capitals
• Periods

After literacy we had second lunch and recess. 

After recess we had a few math problems to lead the way into UOI. For example I asked students what 4 tens and 3 ones were and they responded 43 or drew a picture on the wall. I then broke the news to the students that we are no longer doing MATH!!!!!! They were absolutely ANGRY at me! They love math! 

I told them that today we are learning about decision making skills and we have to come up with reasons for and against keep math. We brainstormed a few reasons for (we need to for our jobs later, we need it when we go to  groceries to buy stuff) and a few reasons against (It takes a lot of time, we need time to play) Then they broke off into partners and debated against each other. Afterwards, Esha and Rohaan did a tableau for us with their ideas.

Afterwards, we finished off our heroes in the community activity and handed out homework and got ready for home.

Cheers!

Marvelous Monday

Today we started off with a special presentation. Ms. Melissa from War Amps delivered a presentation to us today about War Amps and provided some very valuable information on amputees. We learned a lot and the students had a lot of questions.

After we went outside for PE with Mrs. Jans.

After PE we had math. We spent a lot of time exploring as a class and working collaboratively. We first reviewed patterns on a hundred chart and then moved on to extending patterns beyond hundreds counting in 2, 5 and 10's. We realised that the patterns are the same even if the hundreds value increases!!! So if he count by 5's on a hundreds chart, it will be the same pattern on a beyond hundreds chart.

 Jordan is showing us a pattern counting by 5's; he covered the numbers 3,8,13 18, 23, 28, 33, 38, 43, 48. I then covered the hundreds chart for them to figure out the rest of the pattern. They realised the ones pattern is 3,8,3,8,3,8 and the tens pattern is 1,1,2,2,3,3,4,4... can you figure out the rest of the pattern?

After we counted we did patterns of 2,5,10 starting and ending at different numbers on the beyond hundreds chart and noticed the same patterns.

Next, we started to explore counting by 25's. I asked them to choose a number that ends in 25 to start with and we decided to start with 125. They worked in partners on their charts to count by 25's. As a class we figured out the pattern visually on the charts and in the place value chart.

Hundreds	Tens	Ones
0	0	0
0	2	5
0	5	0
0	7	5
1	0	0
1	2	5
1	5	0
1	7	5
2	0	0
2	2	5
2	5	0
2	7	5

The one's pattern is 5,0,5,0,5,0...
The ten's pattern is 0,2,5,7,0,2,5,7,0,2,5,7...
The hundreds pattern is 0,0,0,0,1,1,1,1,2,2,2,2,3,3,3,3

I added a section for math games related to our unit. The link is on the right side. 

Then they started working in their textbooks. 

Afterwards we had first lunch and recess.

After lunch and recess we took some time to work on our math textbooks.

Then we had music with Mr. Oliver, and French with Mme Stella

Then we had second lunch and recess.

After lunch and recess we wrote agendas since we had our special presentation in the morning.

Here was today's message:

-Read for 20 minutes (RAZ KIDS!!!!!!)
-Math pg. 33 Q1-5 ext. 5-6
-Spelling pg. 10-13
-Cursive pg. 10-11
-Food drive donation
-Book order
-Toonies for Terry

Then we worked on spelling, here is the list of words for this week, the list will stay up in the top right corner:

1) let

2) his

3) had

4) ask

5) old

6) took

7) also 

8) sat

9) fell

10) get

After spelling we worked on cursive writing, the letters: d and g. Then we handed out our homework and agendas and got ready for home. 

Cheers!

Friday!

Today we started our day off with agendas:

• Read for 20 minutes
• Book order
• Math page 11 1-6

After we went to PE with Mrs Jans. 

After PE we had math! 

Today we looked at patterns using a hundreds chart. We explored counting by 2's, 5's and 10's starting at different numbers. We noticed that you can start at any number and count from there, and can still count by 2's, 5's and 10's (Ex. start at 5 and count by 2's up to 37) We recognised that in each column the value of the ones are the same. 

After math is was time for lunch and recess.

After recess it was time for our much anticipated spelling test! The students did very well! Our bonus words were: claw, and thrill. 

After spelling we took some time to finish off our UOI community heroes plate.

Then it was time for French with Mme. Stella.

After French we had second lunch and recess.

After recess we worked on math. we moved on from colouring our patterns on our hundreds chart to more specifically describing them in words. 

To end the day we had TRIBES time which is where we spend a short amount of time to build classroom community.  We played a game called pattern maker which focused on inclusion and participation among everyone. 

Have a great weekend!

September 14, 2017

Today we started our day off with agendas as usual, today's notes were:

• Cursive pg 8-9 (if not completed yet)
• Read for 20 minutes
• Student handbook form
• Math 
• page 7 q1, page 8 q5 (WE FINISHED IN CLASS TODAY!)
• page 2 q1 a,b (this is on a separate sheet)
• Book order

***Our spelling quiz is tomorrow, there is also a letter about international day in their agenda, if you are interested in helping out please feel free to comment or e-mail me. I will be sending out further details.***

Then we had PE with Mrs Jans

After PE we had math, today we looked at patterns and counting on a hundred chart. I gave the students some exploration time to colour patterns on our hundreds charts, afterwards I asked them to explain to me what their patterns meant. They were able to explain that they were counting in 2's, 5's, and 10's. (Each pair of students tried different patterns) 

We then looked at patterns together as a class and defined what rows, columns and diagonal means. We found out something neat... that if you have a diagonal line the digits add to the same number! We also noticed that if you travel down the same column the value of the tens increases by 1 ten each row.

After math we had our first lunch and recess.

After recess we stayed outside for our literacy lesson. We talked about what verbs are and played a game of Simon says with only verbs.

After literacy we had music and after music we had French!

After that it was time for second lunch and recess.

After recess it was time for UOI. Today we looked at determining heroes in a community. We designed a paper plate with paper hands around it with our community heroes and what they do. 

After UOI we tidied up, handed out homework and got ready for home.

Cheers!