November 1st, 2016

Hello families and friends,

Yesterday we spent our morning working on a lot of different activities involving our pumpkins with room 72.  The students practiced doing some estimation and predictions, measuring, comparing, counting large numbers, and using their senses for writing.  A few pictures from the groups working in our room can be found at the bottom of this post.  In the afternoon, we worked on some Halloween themed art, math, and writing.

Today we started by continuing the writing work we began yesterday and finishing up our Halloween "walking" story that we began last week.  Then we watched a video on given criticism and feedback, and the students had an opportunity to share their work and practice giving feedback on the pictures that the students had drawn.  We finished off our morning practicing our good Read to Self and Read to Someone.  In the afternoon, we started by working on a visualization exercise.  Why do we do these exercises and how do they help us?  Post your answer in the comments below.  Then we continued working on the math exercise that we had started yesterday.  After that we worked on a new vowel sound in our word work; the /i/ sound.  Ask your child how this sound is the same and how it is different from our last vowel sound, /a/.  We finished off our day with gym and music.

A few notices and reminders:

• FundScrip forms will be going home with the students today.  These are due back by Monday, November 14th.
• It looks like the weather is going to cooperate, so we will be going on our community walk this Thursday morning.  My plan is to leave the school around 9:30 and return for recess/lunch time.  If you are available to help out with this please email me at <gasoulliere@cbe.ab.ca>.
• As always, if you have any questions or concerns feel free to email me at any time.  I will always do my best to get back to you within 24 hours.

Have a great afternoon,
Mr. Soulliere