Monday, October 26

 Hi parents,

We had a great Monday today! The students wrote about their weekends, learned the new spelling words, and practiced printing the letter 'G'. 

I've been very pleased with how well our new 'Morning Math' time is going. Each morning, the students complete four math problems before they move on to Explore and Play. We still do other math lessons later in the day, but Morning Math helps to ensure students continue to get practice with foundational math skills when our other lessons may be covering topics like shapes, patterns, or graphing (aka, the easy topics). The students are becoming much more confident with addition and I plan to introduce subtraction problems into the mix tomorrow.

The highlight of the day was probably our nature walk, in which we safely walked around the block from Lake Bonavista and found a nice snowy hill. We didn't see many animals or birds today, but the students were very observant when it came to animal tracks. We found a lot of different footprints that the students think were made by a rabbit. 

Here is a video we watched this morning about 'making mistakes': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndvt89ybSSE

While it is not specifically connected to anything we're learning about, in a way it's relevant to everything we do in class!

Have a nice night,

Zac