We started the day off with Phys. Ed. with Mr. Costa.
When we returned to class we graphed the weather and temperature and then we continued to finish up activities from last week. We prioritized what needed to be done. Today the Gr. 2's had to complete changing a bar graph to a picto-graph. The Gr. 3's worked on an activity that focused on elapsed time.
After recess, we did a well needed review on regroup 10's to 1's and 100's to 10's. Subtraction is something that the students struggle with more than addition so we stepped back a bit to review the basics, review what regrouping means and also look at the pattern in the steps to regrouping.
After recess we did 20 min of independent reading and several students read to me or the resource teacher assisting that period. After that we tried to do a challenging art activity. We looked at foreground, middleground and background. We learned how we can make objects seem close or far away by either overlapping them, or by using perspective ( far things are small.. close things are big). This was challenging but really demonstrated how listening skills need to improve to follow instructions.
After recess, we talked about the play that we are going to see on Friday morning. Forms have been sent home and need to be returned asap. It is called "Head a Tete." It is about conflict resolution between people who don't speak the same language. It will be interesting to hear the critiques of the play. We talked about who is involved in creating plays. There is the playwright, the cast, director, stage manager, set , sound and costume people. We talked about proper theatre behaviour because it is different than a movie because actors can hear the audience. There was a few minutes at the end of the day to work on Spelling but not nearly enough since it took almost 25 min. to settle after recess before we could talk as a class.
HOMEWORK: Spelling Lesson 23 due tomorrow (or it will be completed after school!)
Sign and return trip form!
