Thursday - Last day of November!

This morning we did guided reading and went to the centre we hadn't done yet. A lot of us liked the "Lego challenge" Ask us what we built. In guided reading we usually read our books together one day, then by ourselves or with a partner another day. If we have guided reading for four days in a row, we then have a couple of days to write and draw the important ideas in the book. Ask us about our books that we are reading and what new words we have learned to read and write.

We had a short gym time today because of the Coffin Cares assembly. We sang the school song and then Mrs. Polski had some students stand who have been showing the qualities of a good citizen - respecting yourself, respecting others and respecting the environment. Some of the older students did a little skit about remembering to put our "one use snack wrappers" in a special box - not in the landfill or blue boxes. We need to decorate a box for the Clubhouse, so we put our trash in the right place. Some of us thought the assembly was a little long, but we sat and listened well.

The grade ones tried to get caught up on their printing with the letters "p" "r" and "n" Ask us some if we can remember some words that start with those letters or have those letters in the word. Colin thought of "backscratcher" for the letter "r" because he sounded it out and heard two "r" sounds!

We worked on making a graph from our survey questions and tried to get all the steps of numbers, categories and title in the right place. We learned that the numbers go on the "Y" axis and the categories on the "X" axis.

We decided it would use too much brain power to work on our portraits, so we did our "shade" colour adding just a little bit of black. Then we started a page in our Art Journal called "what we know about colour".

Tomorrow is Fresh Air Friday! Remind us to dress in layers - we will be outside investigation signs of animals. We will be in teams as photographers, cartographers and statisticians.

Quite a few of us forgot our home reading today, but we still had a chance to read. Please remind us to put our home reading in our backpacks, so we can choose one or two new books for the weekend.