Thursday Oct 29, 2020

 Happy Happy Happy Thursday October 29, 2020!

Reminders: 

No school tomorrow (Oct 30)!

No School November 11 (Remembrance Day)

Picture retakes November 12 (I have the pictures ready to send home Monday!)

Parent teacher interviews November 19 (3:30-7:30) & November 20 (8:00-1:00)

Today in room 5:

Today we were dressed up in costume! It was great to see the students dressed up and having fun doing activities!

We began our day with some quiet working time to finish work while I worked with a student. After this the students went to the gym to do phys ed with Mr Sadowsky and play kickball.

Upon returning to class we went through our morning calendar focusing on the date, number of days in school (the number 38), the weather and we even had time to do rhyming words with our wow words. 

During snack we ready a spooky story before heading outside to play on the compound.

Upon returning inside we did our October writing sample in which the students used a picture on the board to do their own free writing. We talked about some rules of writing such as:

Periods at the end of a sentence

Capitals at the start of a sentence

Use finger spaces

Try your best to sound out words

Connect your sentences to the picture

I also modeled a writing sample for the students before starting. Students then worked completely independently without help with spelling or sounding out of words. I told them, I do not care about spelling correctly...sound out the words the best you can so I can see how your brain is hearing the words! Students rose to this challenge and wrote for a solid 25 minutes. I read through all of their work and asked for clarification of their words. I will share these writing samples alongside the growth from September in our PTC's.

In the afternoon we worked together to find out how many seeds were in our pumpkin! We estimated how many seeds were in the pumpkin on Tuesday and today we counted small groups of seeds on our own. In the end our pumpkin held 305 seeds! The closest estimation was 200 seeds!

We finished off our day with making Inchies Art. Students used paper, pencil crayons, and pastels to create four different small pictures. Some of these pictures were orange pumpkins on black paper, skeletons on white paper, and ghosts on black paper. Students did not have to make it about halloween though. They were free to create four pieces based off their interests as well.

I am happy to say it was a fantastic day!

Have a great evening and a safe and happy Halloween!

Mr Lancee