Details of Another Busy Day of Learning

Whew! What a busy day full of learning activities! We started the day with a goal: to start our math journals before announcements. This meant having belongings in bins, placing RAH bags in mailboxes, opening our agendas on desks and getting shoes on within the first ten minutes of the day (a more than realistic goal when students focus on their job). Happily, almost everyone was successful and ready to start their math journals on time! Getting organized at the start of the day is an important part of setting ourselves up for a successful day. Prompt arrival at school each more is also very beneficial. 

School - wide guided reading/daily 4 took place at 9am. Ariella and Liz enjoyed reading on my iPad! Our class set of iPads are scheduled to arrive next week. I am excited to begin incorporating them into our daily routines and so are the students!

After music and recess, we practiced tying our shoes! This is a task that often takes up a lot of our time throughout the day.  For some students this was review and practice and for others it was a brand new concept. We reviewed 2 methods for tying shoes and students preferred the 2 loops method. Shoes were off and everyone learned and practiced both methods. Students eagerly helped others, modelled to neighbours on the carpet, raced against friends to tie the fastest and proudly showed off this important life skill. I have left shoes at school for students to practice with. Hopefully, with continued practiced, we will spend less time struggling with shoe laces and more time engaged in learning activities. 

Next, we played a place value game in which two cards are selected in turn to great the biggest number possible. Once a card was placed in the ones or tens column, it could not be removed. Once both cards were placed, a chance to recycle one card often was a game changer. Students played against myself and competition was heated :) I believe I won, although the may remember it differently! Numbers were recorded with the greater than and less than signs.  Students will play with a friend tomorrow. 

After lunch, we used google maps to look at a map of the world and countries of our origins. Students were very excited to see the countries they learned about from their family on the map. We then read a community alphabet book and edited the alphabet list we previously brainstormed. Tomorrow we will assign letters to students and begin pre-writing for our community book.  We will take pictures to accompany our writing during our community walk on Friday. 

Before recess we reviewed colours in French.  Students will need to understand colours in French throughout our studies this year.

During our Word Study period, we glued in our tests from Friday and began working with our new words for the week (this included a lesson on the carpet with myself). 

Guided reading groups/ independent reading was a calming way to end the day AND of course after packing up, we danced to Just dance Kids: Feeling Good.  

Whew! I'm tired just thinking about everything we did :) Great job Team 24 for a very productive Monday!!

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~Ms. Burland