Tuesday, May 25 (Please send back workbooks!)

 Hi parents,

We had a great first day back! Even though the students were a bit unruly today, I cannot express how grateful I am to be back in the classroom. There was so much laughter and happy chatter. 

Thank you for all of your support during our online learning time. I know it's basically like working two, or sometimes even three full-time jobs, and I appreciate all the extra work you all put in to help your child stay caught up and continue learning. I was so pleased with how well the students worked today - it was like they never left!

In the morning, the students wrote about their long weekends in their journals. We learned about Nunavut, the final stop in our "This Land Is Our Land" project, and watched this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x30lPvBuFA4

Nunavut is a very interesting territory but I don't know if I'd ever want to live there. I'd be curious to find out what the kids thought of it!

In the afternoon, we did Daily 5, and played Badminton in gym. We practiced our new spelling words (the -ink family), and we were supposed to do math, but we ran out of time due to listening issues. As a result, the whole class is in Listening Club tomorrow, which means we'll all be staying in during recess to do math (what the students do not realize is that we're doing a bonus recess in the morning - I wouldn't actually take away recess, especially this close to the end of the year).

Thank you to everyone who sent back their children's work and workbooks today! I completely forgot to send a reminder. If you haven't send back workbooks yet, please send them tomorrow.

Have a nice evening!

Zac