Friday September 18th

 I can't believe I forgot to post yesterday...my apologies...we did stuff!

Here is the plan for today.

Period 1 - Red light, read aloud, reader's workshop shop.  We'll talk about what good 'partner reading' looks and sounds like.

Period 2 is Writer's workshop.  The other day we struggled to write for 5 whole minutes...we're going to continue to build stamina and do it again today!

Period 3 is math.  We're going to review 'expanded form' and use base ten blocks to make creations and count them.  

Period 4 we'll try logging into Knowledge hook again to do a game show and activity.

Period 5 is gym with Mr. D.

Period 6 we'll watch the pilot episode of the Wayside cartoon!

Just a quick reminder, I will be away all of next week, I will check my emails when I return.  Mrs. Sylvester will be filling in for me...so no blog posts next week!

Wednesday September 16th

 Here is how today is 'supposed to go'.

Period 1- Red light, Class Discussion - being responsible and kind, independent reading

Period 2 -writer's workshop - brainstorming things we love

Period 3 - Math -we'll try to log on to Knowledgehook and familiarize ourselves with this Board supported math program.

Period 4 - Music with Mrs. Haynes.

Period 5 -We'll do the mindfulness origami from yesterday I didn't get to, and then try and figure out our friends math 'Figure Me Out' Sheets.

Period 6 - I'm hoping we earn free time...We're really pushing responsibility, inclusion and kindness

Tuesday September 15th

 Here is plan for today:

Period 1: Red light, read aloud, finish up all about me page -'My family'.

Period 2: First french period with Mr. Woolley.

Period 3 - We'll start by trying to solve the 'skyscraper' puzzle from yesterday...then I'm hoping to take the kids outside for an 'outdoor math' activity.  We may stay out there for a few minutes too.

Period 4 -when we come back in, I've got another math game called 'sum it up'.  We'll try learning and playing that one to build our basic math facts.

Period 5 I'm going to try the mindfulness activity from yesterday that I didn't get around to.  We'll be folding an origami dog and then trying to do it independently before asking for help (or giving up!!). Mr. Cross will be trying it too.

Period 6 I'm hoping we keep up the awesome work and earn a bit of free time? 

Monday September 14th

 Here is the plan for today:

Period 1 - We'll do our first 'weekend round up' where we share highlights from our weekends.  We'll do this every Monday.  Today we'll talk about attentive listening.  We'll also talk about the proper procedure for a fire drill.

Period 2 is our first Fire drill.  Any extra time we'll spend working on the next page of our About Me Books.

Period 3 and 4 are Math. We'll continue to build some resiliency and independence and I'm going to show them a couple of games hopefully.  

Period 5 is a mindfulness period.  We'll do a little origami and practice the power of 'Yet'.  

Period 6 is gym.

Friday September 11th

 First week of Grade 3, (almost) complete.

A good one too!

Here is the plan for today:

Period 1 - Red light (quiet activity), read aloud, independent reading (I'll be doing a quick phonics-screener with all the kids).  I also want to review our class motto and rules and go over the success (and failures) of yesterday's team building activity (cup stacking).

Period 2 -Writer's workshop- continue working on our All About Me Books...focusing on trying our best and being proud of our work!

Period 3 -Is math, we're going to do a little 'Figure Me Out' math sheet.  

Period 4 -Our first assembly of the year.

Period 5 is gym with Mr. D.

Period 6 I'm hoping to get the kids to log into the chromebooks for the first time...there will be hiccups!

Thursday September 10th

 Here is the plan for today:

Period 1 - We'll do our red light (quiet activity).  Then we'll have a discussion about our class rules, our class motto...and really just try to work on building a class community of hard working, kind kids.  Then we'll read a bit of Wayside and the kids will have their own independent reading time.

Period 2 We'll continue working on our 'all about me' books.  Some kids are rushing through too fast, and not taking pride in their work...others are going too slow and not getting much done because they're almost too proud!

Period 3 is music with Mrs. Haynes.

Period 4 we'll do a little more math....trying again to work on that growth mindset.  I heard a lot of "I can't do math, I'm not good at it".  I'm trying to erase that language and replace it with " This is hard, but I'm going to work hard and try my best to do this".  

Period 5 I've got a team building/responsibility building activity planned.  Then we'll have some quiet finish up time.

Period 6, if it all goes according to plan we'll enjoy a bit of free time. 

Wednesday September 9th

Just a little FYI, my daughter goes to Aldershot High School, so I usually get to school quite early, and leave right away, so often my blogs are written at the start of the day...what I HOPE and plan to happen....it doesn't always go that way. 

Here is the plan for today:

Period 1 - We'll do a quiet 'red light' activity to start the day.  I'm going to read a funny book called 'But It's Not My Fault'.  We'll go over our class motto and rules.  Then we'll have some time to read on our own...we'll work on picking appropriate books and putting books back from where we got them.

Period 2 we'll begin work on our 'All About Me' books. 

Period 3 we'll do a tiny bit of math, mostly focusing on our Social Emotional Learning, knowing we can do hard things.

Period 4 is Music with Mrs. Haynes.

Period 5 and 6 we'll so a bit of 'name art' talking about warm and cool colours.  I think we'll finish pretty early and get to have a little free time too..I hope.