We started of the day by graphing the temperature and then we did cooperative Math activity with money. Each student had a job as an accountant, banker, cashier or presenter. Students sorted and counted coins, and they also sorted and counted bills. It was a great way to review counting my 1's, 5's 10's 20's 25's etc.
The students also used calculators to assist in finding total amounts of dollars and cents.
The class went to Drama with Ms. Leung before recess and were working on scripts for some plays they will be presenting next week.
After recess we did our Math activities. We read graphs, told time quarter to the hour and then the Gr. 3's began to count elapsed time. (e.g. How much time passed from 3:30 to 6:50?) The other groups counted faces, edges and vertices of shapes and the final group played money games on the computer.
After recess we read the story " Steel Pan Man of Harlem". We reviewed the elements of the story as a class and discussed the big idea... in this story it was to keep the promises you make. We then individually made text-to-text and text-to-self connections, with the text-to-world connection being that it is a good idea to keep the promises you make.
Baby Teagan came to visit today. We were very surprised to see how active she was today. She was very happy and was bouncing the whole time. She was making more noises and we also learned that she is getting her first tooth. We talked about the emotions she has, and what makes her feel certain ways at certain times and how her mother can identify these feelings in Teagan.
After recess, I collected Spelling books and several students had not completed their work, so many did spelling and those finished worked on the rough draft of their stories.
HOMEWORK: Spelling ( on;y two or three students)
Complete the rough copy of story.
Read.
