Mrs. Young's blog

Yesterday we started with quiet reading and catch up time.  We had music with Mr. Weins. We did calendar and we practiced counting in different ways.  We did Student of the Day.  We learned that Zayan likes to eat watermelon.  We copied 3 sentences about him and most of us wrote 1 or 2 more sentences on our own.  We drew a picture of Zayan and wrote his name properly on the printing road.  We will add our work to our class book.   After lunch we did mindfulness and we changed our home reading books.  We had gym.  We did literacy centers.  In Science we watched some videos to get an idea about what people do in the winter.  We did our basic facts test.    Today we started with quiet reading.  We had our Pillars of Care assembly.  Congratulations to this months winners.  They are: Care for Others: Maxwell - for always being kind to others and playing with many different children at recess. Care for Learning: David - for working hard on his reading, writing and math skills. Care for Place

 Yesterday we started with quiet reading and we got new library books.  We did calendar and we practiced subitizing.  We did literacy centers.  We did Student of the Day.  We learned that Artyom likes the colours red and blue.  We copied three sentences about him and them most of us wrote 1 or 2 more sentences on our own.  We drew a picture of Artyom and we wrote his name correctly on the printing road.  We will add our work to our class books.  We did mindfulness and we changed our home reading books.  We practiced our sounds and we continued skipping in gym.  After recess we did Mathletics and Raz Kids on the iPads. Today we started with quiet reading.  We did calendar and we made patterns.  We had literacy centers.  We wrote sentences in our journals using the sentence starter "I can" or "I like" to write about things we like to do in the winter.  We did mindfulness and we changed our home reading books.  We had gym with Mrs. Sterne.  In science we learned about

  If you have not signed your child into our Google Classroom, please do so.  If you need your child's Gmail address and password, please email me.   Today we started with quiet reading and we changed our book bin books.  We had music with Mr. Weins.  We did calendar and we practiced counting in different ways.  We had literacy centers and we have new word wall words.  They are: Group A:  he, me, going, am, with ("am" and "he/me" have word families) Group B: up, fun, me, going, had, was ("am" and "fun" have word families) Group C: playground, yesterday, pathway, everyday, anyway ("ay" words) Group D: Dd, Cc, my, can Our word review will be on Friday.  Please help your child practice their words.  We did mindfulness and we changed our home reading books.  We practiced our sounds.  In gym we started skipping.  In math we learned how to use blocks to help us add.  We learned about what plants do to survive winter.

If you have not signed your child into our Google Classroom, please do so.  If you need your child's Gmail address and password, please email me.   Yesterday we started with quiet reading and catch up time (math).  We did calendar and we practiced counting in different ways using our 100 chart.  We had literacy centers.  We were very excited to go outside for recess!  We did Student of the Day.  We learned that Ava likes to eat pizza.  We copied 3 sentences about her and some of us wrote our own sentences.  We drew a picture of Ava and we wrote her name properly on the printing road.  We will add our work to our class books.  After lunch we did mindfulness and we changed our home reading books. We continued practicing adding using pictures.  We started our snowflakes to add to our medicine wheel of the seasons.  We did them the same way that we did our snowflakes last week.  We coloured a small coffee filter with water soluble markers and then we spayed them with water and watched

  If you have not signed your child into our Google Classroom, please do so.  If you need your child's Gmail address and password, please email me. Yesterday we started with quiet reading and we got new library books (we keep them in our desks.  We had music with Mr. Weins.  We did calendar and we practiced counting in different ways.  We did Student of the Day.  We learned that Addison likes strawberry ice cream.  We copied 3 sentences about her and some of us wrote our own sentences.  We drew a picture of Addison and we wrote her name properly on a printing road.  We will add our page about Addison to our class book.  After lunch we did mindfulness and we practiced our sounds.  We had gym.  We had literacy centers.  In math we showed how we skip count by 2's, 5's and 10's on a 100 chart.  We practiced counting using the 100 charts. Today we started with quiet reading.  We did calendar and we used our 100 charts to practice counting in different ways.  We had literacy

  If you have not signed your child into our Google Classroom, please do so.  If you need your child's Gmail address and password, please email me. Today we started with quiet reading and we changed our book bin books.  We did calendar and we practiced subitizing (knowing the number of objects without counting).  This month's extra pillar of care is wisdom.  Today we talked about how indigenous cultures value wisdom and how they pass it on through the Elders.  We also talked about how indigenous people gain wisdom from the land.  It tells them things like,  when the seasons will change and it provides all they need to survive.  We did literacy centers and we did word work.  We have new word wall words.  They are: Group A: we, went, for, day, play ("we" and day/play" have word families) Group B: for, red, yes, he, day, play ("red" and day/play" have word families) Group C: while, whisper, awhile, anywhere, who Group D: Mm, Gg, go, me Our word review

  If you have not signed your child into our Google Classroom, please do so.  If you need your child's Gmail address and password, please email me. Yesterday we started with quiet reading.  We did calendar and we practiced identifying and making patterns.  We had literacy centers.    We worked on our last letter.  It is the letter q.  We talked about it's sound and that "where there's a q, theres always a u".  We brainstormed words that start with q and we practiced printing it on our whiteboards and in our printing books.  We drew pictures of things that start with q and we labelled them.  Most of us wrote sentences with q words in them.  We did balances with a partner in gym.  In Science we started an art project.  We use washable markers and coloured a coffee filter.  We sprayed them with water and watched as the colours mixed.  We will cut them into snowflakes when they are dry.  In math we worked on sorting.  We decided if we would sort by colour, size, shape

If you have not signed your child into our Google Classroom, please do so.  If you need your child's Gmail address and password, please email me. Today we started with quiet reading.  During quiet reading, Mrs. Young is doing guided reading with small groups.  We had music with Mr. Weins. We did calendar and we practiced counting in different ways. We talked about things we see in the winter.  We wrote 5 sentences using the sentence starter "I see".  We did mindfulness and we practiced our sounds.  We continued doing gymnastics in gym.  In math we worked on comparing objects and describing them (e.g. my pencil is longer than my eraser). Yesterday we started with quiet reading and we went to the library to get a new library book.   We did calendar and we practiced counting in different ways.  We had literacy centers.  We learned about the letter X. We talked about the sound it makes and we brainstormed words that have an X in them.  We practiced printing it on our whiteboa

 Welcome Back!  I hope everyone enjoyed the holiday! If you have not signed your child into our Google Classroom, please do so.  If you need your child's Gmail address and password, please email me. We started today with quiet reading.  We got new book bin books.  We did calendar and we practiced counting in different ways.  We read the story "Snowmen at Night".  We talked about what they think snowmen do at night.  We did literacy centers and we have new word wall words.  Our word review will be on Friday.  This weeks words are: Group A - can, on, is, at, you ("can" and "at" have word families) Group B - went, we, no, you, got, on ("went" and" got" have word families) Group C - chair, cheese, lunch, touch, chapter Group D - 'Pp, Nn, it, in Please practice all word wall words on a regular basis.  After lunch we had mindfulness and gym.  In gym we are starting our gymnastics unit.  If you child has long hair, please tie it back o