Monday, September 9

 Hi parents,

We started our first full week of school off on a good note today.

In the morning, we had a sharing circle to talk about our weekends, and then moved on to Morning Math. The class is currently reviewing 2-digit by 2-digit addition and subtraction problems, and the concept of 'regrouping'. We've been doing daily check-ins with the Golden Beads to help students visualize what actually happens when you 'carry the one' for an addition problem. We've also been reviewing skip-counting.

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For writing, we built on the Jot Note skills we started last week, and the students wrote jot notes about themselves. They mostly focused on general information like age, hair colour, favourite stuff, etc. We're going to go a bit deeper over the next few days and focus on some of the life events and stories that shaped us. And then we're going to try to do the same for Terry Fox, and write his story. I hope it all comes together!

In the afternoon, we talked about this week's spelling words and the students chose their new lists to practice. The "Listen to Reading" Daily LA station was introduced, and the class learned how they can access Storyline Online during future Daily LA sessions to listen to celebrities read stories aloud.

We ended the day with Music.

Have a nice night,

Zac