Mrs. Young's blog

 Yesterday we started with quiet reading and we changed our library books.  We had music with Mr. Weins.  We did calendar and we practiced our 2D and 3D shapes.  We had literacy centers and we practiced our word wall words.  We had mindfulness and we changed our home reading books.  We had gym.  We played a subtraction game in math.  We continued to learn about Spring. We ended up having a long conversation about a number of Spring related topics.  Things like: the cherry blossoms in Japan, the pyramids in Mexico (related to the Spring/Fall equinox) and how tadpoles change into frogs (and where does their tail go?).   Today we started with quiet reading.  We did calendar and we practiced subitizing.  We had literacy centers.  We did a sequencing/writing activity.  We put three picture in order then we wrote sentences starting with "first", "then", "last".  We did mindfulness and we changed our home reading books.  We did stations in gym.  We did Mathletics

 Welcome Back!  I hope everyone had a fun Spring Break! Today we started with quiet reading and we changed our book bin books.  We did calendar and we practiced counting in different ways.  Today we practiced counting by 100's !!!  We did literacy centers and we did word work.  We have new word wall words.  They are: Group A: one, two, come, yellow, year ("year" has a word family) Group B: here, her, his, there, but, eat ("eat" and "but" have word families) Group C: train, snail. complain, rainbow, again Group D: Qq, Uu, look, up, went, see Our word review will be on Friday.  We did mindfulness and we changed our home reading books.  We had gym with Mrs. Sterne.  We worked on subtracting using a number line in math.  We talked about the signs of spring and we listened to some stories about spring.

 Yesterday was St. Patrick's Day.  We started with quiet reading and catch up time.  We did calendar.  We watched the Jump Rope for Heart event day video.  We had literacy centers.  We did a making words activity.  We used the letters i, c, k, r, s and t to make 2, 3, 4 and 5 letter words.  We used all the letters to make the secret word.  After lunch we did mindfulness and we changed our home reading books.  We did a mindfulness sit spot outside.  When we came in we drew a picture of what we could see, hear, feel or smell and wrote about it. We learned about the order of colours in the rainbow (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple).  We made our own rainbows by using ripped paper.  We did a St. Patrick's Day graph and/or a St. Patrick's Day word family activity when we were finished. Today we started by finishing our rainbows.  We had our Pillars of Care assembly.  Our winners this month are: Care for Others: Kaylee - she is always kind to others in the classroom and o

 Yesterday we started with quiet reading and we changed our home reading books.  Some of us worked on catching up on our math.  We did calendar and practiced our 2D and 3D shapes.  We had literacy centers.  We continued to write about our family.  We used the sentences starters "My family likes" and "My family can".  We did mindfulness and we changed our home reading books.  We painted a colour wheel by mixing colours.  We played a math card game with a partner.   Today we started with quiet reading and catch up tome.  We had music with Mr. Weins.  We did calendar and we had literacy centers.  We worked on our writing about our families.  We had mindfulness and we changed our home reading books.  We did Mathletics and Raz Kids on the iPads. Tomorrow is St Patrick's Day.  Wear green! Friday is "twin day".  Students may dress the same as other students if they wish. Spring Break - March 21 - 25 - no school

 Today we started with quiet reading and we changed our book bin books.  We did calendar and we practiced our shapes.  We did literacy centers and we have new word wall words.  They are: Group A: home, here, us, red, blue ("red" has a word family) Group B: of, old, year, one, three, two ("old" and "year" have a word family) Group C: (ir words) circle, thirteen, shirt, first, birthday Group D: Zz, Ww, see, went, play you Our word review will be on Friday.  After lunch we did mindfulness and we changed our home reading books.  We did skipping for Jump Rope for Heart in gym.  In Math we learned how to use a number line to help us subtract.  We practiced our colour poem. Mr. Hebert should be sending an important email to all parents tonight.  Please read it and talk to your child about it. Friday is "twin day".  Students may dress the same as other students if they wish. Spring Break - March 21 - 25 - no school

Yesterday we started with quiet reading and catch up time.  We went to the library and changed our home reading books.  We did calendar and we watched the Jumprope for Heart kickoff video (we will do Jump Rope for Heart next week in gym).  We had literacy centers.  We practiced our predicting skills.  We used a picture to practice predicting what might happen next.  After lunch we did mindfulness and we changed our home reading books.  We had gym.  In math we learned how to use blocks to help us subtract.  We did chromotography in science.  We used a coffee filter and drew a dot on it.  We sprayed it with water to see what colours are in the colour black.  We will let it dry and write about it tomorrow. Today we started with quiet reading and catch up time.  We did calendar and we had literacy centers.  We wrote about our familiy using the sentence starters "My family is" and "My family has".  We did mindfulness and we changed our home reading books.  We had gym wit

 Today we started with catch up time and quiet reading.  We changed our book bin books.  We had music with Mr. Weins.  We did calendar and we practiced our shapes.  We had literacy centers and word work.  We have new word wall words.  They are: Group A: of, look, all, did, I', ("all" and "did" have word families) Group B:  today, yesterday, home, come, after, back ("back" has a word family) Group C: (ar words) party, sharp, charm, started, carpet Group 4: Ee, Ff, and, for, can, you We did mindfulness and we changed our home reading books.  We had gym.  In math we continued to work on subtraction using pictures.  We worked on our colour poem.  We watched a Magic School Bus episode about colour. Online Parent - Teacher conferences are next Thursday (3:30 - 7:30pm) and Friday (8:00am - 12:00pm).  Please book through your CBE account.

 Yesterday we started with catch up time (100th day activities, writing and science).  We did calendar and we practiced counting in different ways.  We had literacy centers.  We did a "making words" lesson.  We used the letters e, i, d, f, n, r and s.  We made 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 letter words.  We made the secret word using all the letters.  After lunch we did mindfulness and we changed our home reading books.  We had gym with Mrs. Sterne.  In math we practiced subtraction using pictures.  We talked about light and dark colours in science. Today we started with quiet reading and catch up time.  We did calendar.  We had literacy centers and we did our word review.  Please check your child's backpack to see how they did.  Please continue practicing all of our word wall words with your child.  We had gym.  We practiced mixing primary colours to make secondary colours. Online Parent - Teacher conferences are next Thursday (3:30 - 7:30pm) and Friday (8:00am - 12:00pm).  Please bo

 Yesterday we started by continuing to work on our 100th day activities.  We changed our library books. We had music with Mr. Weins.  We did calendar (Happy March!) and we practiced subtizing.  We started a writing activity.  We wrote sentences starting with "I am" and "I have".  After lunch we did mindfulness and we changed our home reading books.  We practice ball skills in gym.  We had literacy centers.  We had a lockdown practice.  Our class did a fantastic job!  In math we started subtraction using pictures.  We continued to talk about primary and secondary colours in Science. Today we started with catch up time (science and 100th day activities).  We did calendar and we reviewed our shapes.  We had literacy centers.  We continued with our writing activity from yesterday.  Today we used the sentence starters "I like" and "I can".  After lunch we did mindfulness and we changed our home reading books.  We continued working on our ball skills i