Today we graphed the lowest temperature in January so far and then looked the morning message. It was a letter that was all mixed up. We reviewed the form of a letter and made sure the date, salutation, body and closing were all in the correct spot.
We were also very excited today because we received another letter from our penpals in Korea. We read the letters and then did a Journal entry about our letters. We started new Journals today and they have a full page of lines, and I am encouraging students to write more than in their previous Journals. Then, we went to DPA/Drama with Ms. Leung.
After recess I introduced the concept of division to the class. We talked about it meaning to share things equally, and that it is repeated subtraction. We then looked at few examples on the Smartboard. We went to our desks and used colour tiles to model division sentences. 12 tiles shared between 2 people.
12 tiles shared with 4 people. 6 shared with 3 people. etc. Most students understood the concept and thought it was easy. We also learned the two ways of writing a division sentence.
After lunch we continued with the Journal. I encouraged students to write about what the card looked like, how they felt about getting the letter and what new things they learned about their new penpals. If they can write 3 or more sentences on each area they would get close to a full page. We then read Matilda and found out about Miss Honey's childhood and hard life.
We completed our Lesson 15 Spelling Test, and began Lesson 16.
After recess, we did a science activity. We are going to be looking at forces, and forces that cause movement. So today we learned that a force is a push or pull. We talked about invisible forces, and direct forces. As an acitivity students were asked to draw 3 or more examples of things they do at home that use
forces and write a sentence to describe the forces.
HOMEWORK: Journal: Penpal Letter response( describe the card, your feelilngs, new info. about penpal)
Spelling Lesson 16: begin lesson, or alpha order, syllables.
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