Today was a busy day. We started off the morning by reading a very challenging message. We were learning to figure out what words mean by where they are in the sentence. We also practiced defining what words mean without using that word. We did a short lesson on mixed numbers. eg. 2 1/2 or 5/2. We combined fractions to make wholes and leftover pieces.
We then moved into our Math activity groups. One group did mixed fractions, one group looked at fractions of a set.. eg.) 1/3 of 9 = 3, one group did activity cards reviewing money and the final group did activity cards review.
After recess this morning, we started looking at commercials. We talked about how long commercials are, we talked about who they are made for and we talked about how they grab people's attention. Sometimes they use jingles ( eg. " Do the potty dance!") they use cartoons to get children's attention, and sometimes use famous people to endorse their products. We will hopefully be making our own commercials using Health and Safety as a focus.
After lunch we went to DPA to get some much needed exercise. When we came back talked about "success criteria" for our narratives. I told them what teachers expected in a good story and then we worked as a class to come up with what it would look like in their writing. This will help students assess their own work more successfully. We then worked on completing our good copies of our stories where we used a picture as inspiration.
After recess, those still not complete worked to get that done while those finished were able to work on their Spelling Lesson 25.
HOMEWORK: Read. ( Reading Response if not complete)
Bring Journals back to school if you have not done so.
