Wednesday, September 11

Each morning students arrive to a message from Mme.  Typically, the message has something to do with our day.  At this point in the year and because we're learning about graphing in Math, the message is a question, this way we can graph our responses.  Please see the question from today, pictured below.  After reading the message orally to students, I'll write down how to orally respond to the question in a complete sentence in French.  Each student takes a turn replying.  Stronger students are able to respond without using the sentence starter, while others find comfort in being able to follow along with the sentence to help them.  Students wrote in their journals today.  They choose a favorite animal (which we discussed this morning) and drew an illustration to go along with their words.  Students try to work independently for 20 minutes on this task.  

We visited the library today and each student selected 2 books which you should be able to find in your child's backback. We'll be visiting the library about once a week.  In math, students were given a magic number and tried to come up with as many ways as possible to make that number.  Today's number was 8. Ask them about it.  We started social studies today and talked about our world and directions.  Students also participated in gym class.

Room 8 has has lost their first tooth-always an exciting event. :)Don't forget our Fall Welcome happening this Friday from 7:30-8:15.  It's also our first "Jour de L'esprit" day and Grade 2 is asked to wear green if you have it.