Guided Reading begins!

Today we started our guided reading groups! Hurray! Some of us are in the first group with Mrs. Armour at 8:45-9:05, and some of us work at our quiet centres (Literacy games, making bookmarks or word work on iPads), the second group is from 9:10-9:30. Some of us will go to read with Mrs. Hamby or Mrs. Boyer and some of us stay and read with Mrs. Armour. We are all excited to get reading together.

After guided reading it is straight to Gym. We are working on our quiet walking line. It is hard sometimes when we are excited to get to the gym, but we need to be good examples to the Kindergarteners who have gym right before us and are watching us!

It was Library day! Most of us remembered our books this week so we were able to sign out 2 books - we always like reading our new books! All morning we are reading and getting our home reading books exchanged too, so there is a lot going on.

A couple weeks ago we all tried guessing how many marbles were in a small jar and a large jar. Yesterday we discussed estimating and making a "good guess" and we counted the marbles in the small jar. There were 25. Five or six of us came close - Samantha had the best estimate at 21!
Today we talked about a "referent" something that we already know to help us with estimating something we don't know. We used our small jar of 25 as our referent to help us estimate the number of marbles in the large jar. A lot of us guessed 50 because it looked like the small jar was about half the size - but then when we counted, we found out there was about 100 marbles! We decided it was because the large jar was wider. Good mathematical thinking!

We also did our painting for our Primary Colour page. The first colours that make all the other colours are...ask us!

We did a desk clean to get ready for conferences. We hope you are excited to come and see some of our learning. Thanks to all the parents who have already signed up!

Parent/Teacher Conferences are on Thursday 4-8pm and Friday 9-12pm. See you then!