Thursday, November 18

 Hi parents,

We had another good day today. In the morning, the students rewatched yesterday's video about Norval Morrisseau, and wrote quick notes about his life and artwork. 

We wrote good copies of the 'colour monster' writing that we started on Tuesday, and they look awesome! I'll be sending them home next week for conferences, as well as some work from other subject areas.

In honour of Pattern Day, we did a review activity about patterns to see how much the students remembered from last year. I'm hoping that this year, we can move away from the classic "red, blue, red, blue" types of patterns, and more into number patterns, and patterns in the real world. We talked about how patterns like Day and Night, the four seasons, animals life cycles, etc. govern our entire world! And without patterns, our lives would be absolute chaos.

In the afternoon, we did Daily 5, worked on some literacy activities, and ended our day with another Morrisseau-inspired art lesson.

Tomorrow is (finally) our official spelling quiz, and in spite of the additional time to practice, I'm worried the students might struggle. I feel like it was almost too much time with the same words. In any case, doing one extra practice at home tonight could be helpful!

Also, thank you to everyone who did the Blog Homework from yesterday! Taking the time to identify similes outside of school is a great way to help students see all the ways descriptive writing is present in the world around them.

Have a nice night,

Zac