Monday, September 30

This morning in FLA, students reviewed our first "Words of the Week."  "Words of the Week" for the month of October are a combination of high frequency words and a review of Grade One words.  These can be found at the back of your child's red duotang.  The 2 home reading books are coming home as well.  Also today in addition to the red duotang and books, are some dice, a deck of cards and instructions to play the Math Monday game.  The dice and cards are yours to keep so your child can play the Math Monday games thoughout the year. We read a book which described the origin of Orange Shirt Day.
In math today we worked on reading questions about a graph.  This is a difficult task for us and we're learning the key words to help us decide what the question is asking.  Also in math, students played the Math Monday game.
After lunch, we read another book about residential schools and students were given the dice, cards, and instructions on how to play the first Math Monday game.  I spent some time with each student, helping to choose books at their level to take home.  The books, I'm hoping should be a little on the easy side because I would like their first time reading with you to be positive.  It will get more difficult.  Students also participated in PE with M. Trevor where they worked on co-operative games.