Monday, 3 April 2017

April 3

I hope everyone had a wonderful spring break and is ready to get back at things.  

This morning I met with one of my guided reading groups to introduce literature circles.  Lit Circles are a fun way to talk about books and develop a deeper understanding.  To begin with, each child was given a new book called The Desk.  There are 5 specific roles to be assigned during a lit circle.  For the first few rounds everyone will be working on the same job until we are more comfortable.  Today's job is Favorite Part Finder.  When each child is done reading the book they will write and draw about their favorite part and then present to the group.  I will be introducing literature circles to the entire class over the new few weeks.  

Today in handwriting we worked on the letter i.  We learned that this letter is part of a group called kite stringers.  Tomorrow we will be working on u.

During writing we learned about non-fiction narrative writing.  Here is what we learned:

Non-fiction Narrative Writing

Purpose: to inform, to educate, to entertain

Organized: facts, sequential
-       starts with a title
-       followed by details and facts (background information
-       some personal comments
-       ends with writer’s feelings
1.Who
2. What, what
3. where
4. when
5. how that person effected the world

6. Wow amazing facts to wow your audience

Tomorrow we will start writing our own personal non-fiction narratives.

Today in math we reviewed 3d shapes and more specifically talked about and made a cube.  We talked about how many vertices, edges and faces a cube has.  

We have library tomorrow.

Peace Ambassador forms were sent home today.l

This week we started our dance residency.  We are learning to become amazing hip hop dancers.
2 students have been selected for the Healthy Learners Club.

Have a wonderful evening.

1 comment:

  1. Hi my favourite thing today was math and writing non-fiction narrative writing.Have a wonderful day everyone.

    From Elly🐰

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