Good afternoon,
These past few days in gym the students have been rotating through some stations, one of which is badminton. We will be learning about badminton soon, after swimming lessons are complete. Speaking of swimming, lessons begin on Wednesday, February 8. An Acknowledgement of Risk and Swimming Ability form, along with the payment should have been returned on Monday. This allows for the time the pool staff requires to group students according to their ability.
In Math the students made a 1 - 10 chain. They were familiar with this concept as they had completed one earlier in December. Students wrote the number, the word, and drew a picture to represent the correct number. Some found it hard to link numbers in the correct order, and a couple glued the pieces so the numbers were on the inside! I shared these mistakes so we could talk about them and know how to fix them should someone happen to make a similar mistake. Each day next week we will be making another set of 10 to make a chain of 100! How long do you think it will be? Peter thought it would be from our Smartboard all the way to the door.
We continue to discuss community. Today I showed the students a picture and asked them what it was (it was our classroom before their first day). They recognized it right away! We talked about how they knew it was a classroom and what any classroom could look like. Then we shared some ideas of what a classroom did not look like, and how do we know something is not a classroom. Later we actually wrote some words to share ideas.
Next week will be a review of all the sight words learned, practiced, and written in the past few weeks. I know many are recognizing these words as when we are reading together or while they read to self, students will excitedly share. Great work!
There is no school for students tomorrow, which is Friday, February 3. Have a happy and healthy weekend and I will see all my Room 5 Smarties on Monday!
Ms. Cokar
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