Tuesday, September 22

 Hi parents,

Once again today was a good day for Room 6. In the morning, we watched a Terry Fox music video which featured the song "I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles) by The Proclaimers. Here's the link if you're interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbjlO7UOgeY 

After that, we went outside for our Nature Walk. This time we talked a lot about tree roots! We noticed the destruction caused by roots in the alley behind our school field. The students learned that tree roots help trees in two big ways - by absorbing water and nutrients, and by keeping the tree steady.

When we got back to class, we talked about the number 11. We skipped ahead in Number Blocks and watched the episode on 'eleven' because it does such a great job of showing how '11' is made up of a group of ten, and a group of one. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpPs1XqknQc 

The class completed "Number Spotlight" worksheets for the number 11. These worksheets challenged them to identify the numbers that came before and after 11, as well as showing 11 using ten frames, tallies, etc. I am in the process of putting together some blank 'number spotlight' templates that I can upload to Google Classroom. Those will be helpful for anyone looking to get additional number practice at home.

We read the book "I'm Fun Too!" again, and then the students wrote sentences about things they like to do for fun. The sentences followed the format:

"______ is fun because...  ______ is not fun because..."

In the afternoon, we talked about the letter 'P'. We watched a cool Jack Hartmann video and practiced printing plenty of perfect P's. Here's the link to that video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14hXRz94jRQ

At the end of the day, we practiced Spelling Words.

I've noticed that there are more absent students lately and I hope that these Blog posts are helping everyone stay in the loop while they're at home. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to ask! 

Have a nice night!

Zac

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Thursday, September 24: Terry Fox Run 

Friday, September 25: Virtual Open House