Mrs. Young's blog

Yesterday we started by writing in our journals.  We had our last drumming session.  We did calendar.  We had literacy centers.  We started a grade one memory book.  After lunch we did mindfulness and changed our home reading books for the last time.  We had gym.  We made origami flowers for our seasons medicine wheel.  We drew a picture of what animals, plants and people do in the summer. Today we started with quiet reading.  We did calendar and we had literacy centers.  We had our last word review.  Please check your child's backpack to see how they did.   We had a whole school celebration of our work with the Drumming Residency. If you have not returned your child's home reading book (book in the yellow folder), please do so on Monday.  If it is lost, please send $5.00 so it can be replaced. We are bringing some of our work home today.  Please empty your child's backpack so we have room to bring the rest of our work home next week. Tuesday, June 28th is the last day of s

 Yesterday we started with quiet reading.  We returned our library books to the library. We did calendar and we had literacy centers. We wrote the middle of our stories.  This is the part that has the problem.  After lunch we did mindfulness and we changed our home reading books.  We had gym and then we went to the drumming residency.  We did Mathletics anf RaxKids on the iPads. Today we started with quiet reading.  We did calendar and we had literacy centers.  We finished our stories by writing the solution to our problem.  We did mindfulness and we changed our home reading books.  We had gym with Mrs. Sterne.  We talked about how we know it's summer by observing the land using our 5 senses.  We wrote about it. Home Reading books are due back by Friday. Tuesday, June 28th is the last day of school.

Today we started with quiet reading and we changed our book bin books.  We had our first day of the Drumming Residency.  We did calendar.  We had literacy centers and we did word work.  We have new words.  They are: Group A: friend, next, try, from, made ("try" has a word family) Group B:  were, wish, birthday, give, present, green ("wish" has a word family) Group C:  ("ew" words) - knew, chew, threw, drew, sew Group D: do, after, today, here Our word review will be on Friday.  After lunch we did mindfulness and we changed our home reading books.  All home reading books are due back on Friday.  We had gym.  We learned about what plants, animals and people do in the summer.

Yesterday we started with quiet reading.  We did calendar and we sang some counting songs.  We had literacy centers.  We started the beginning of the story we are writing.  We introduced the characters and the setting of our story.  After lunch some of us finished our writing while the rest of us did mindfulness and we changed our home reading books.  We had gym with Mrs. Sterne.  We made a special pop up card for someone special.  Today we started with quiet reading.  We did calendar.  We had literacy centers and we did our word review.  Please continue practicing all word wall words.  We had gym.  We went to the the grade 6 celebration.

Yesterday we started with quiet reading and we changed our library books.  We had music with Mr. Wiens.  We did calendar.  We started a plan so we can write a story.  We decided on characters, the setting, the problem and the solution.  We did mindfulness and we changed our home reading books.  We had gym.  We had literacy centers.  We started an experiment in science.  We put celery in a cup with food colouring.  We made a hypothesis about what we think will happen.   Today we started with quiet reading and catch up time.  We did calendar.  We had literacy centers.  We looked at what happened to our celery and wrote about it.  After lunch we did mindfulness and we changed our home reading books.  We had gym.  We did a survey before the drumming residency that the school is doing next week.  We did Mathletics and RazKids on the iPads.

Today we started with writing about our weekend in our journals and we changed our book bin books.  We did calendar.  We practiced our reading skills by reading to a partner. We had literacy centers and we did word work.  We have new word wall words. They are: Group A: how, into, night, could, about ("night" has a word family) Group B:baby, mother, people, nice, family, father ("nice" has a word family) Group C: "dge" words - edge, bridge, fudge, ledge, fridge Group D: today, here, him, he, are After lunch we did mindfulness and we changed our home reading books.  We had gym.  We did a math sheet that had both addition and subtraction questions.  We could decide what strategy we would use to solve the problems.  We built some structures with our lego.  We built a bridge and then a house.  We did "museum walks" (walking around looking at what others are doing) to help us get ideas and solve problems.