Wednesday, October 9

Before I forget...picture day is tomorrow.  Please send your child to school with a smile!  I called Scholastic this morning as we should have received our order by now and they have explained that due to a high volume of book orders placed in September they are behind schedule.  They have shipped our order and it should be here next week.
Today in FLA, students finished up an alphabetical activity and in math students began to share their graphs.  We discussed the importance of criticism and how it's helpful to receive feedback to improve.  We will continue sharing tomorrow.  Also in math, students wrote a quiz about graphs.  Part of our learning objective is to be able to interpret information on graphs, but at this point in the school year it's very difficult for some students to read questions about the graph.  The math quiz becomes more of a reading quiz rather than an understanding of the graph.  This is why we spend time going over key vocabulary.  I'll have a look at the quiz over the weekend and see where we need to go based on students' understanding.  We continued to work on mapping and students worked with a partner to read instructions with North, South, East and West.  Students' placed the picture in the correct location, based on the directions. Please see pictures below.  In PE, M. Trevor has been working on core strength.  See the planks below