Monday's Message

Today in Math, the boys and girls learned all about using a number line to count. They learned that you can use a ruler to help you add. My hope is that they can explain this to their families tonight. 
We also talked about how one can count by twos starting at 1 and this would mean each number one lands on would be an odd one. We know this isn't normally how we count by twos, but it's an option that we should be aware of.  

In our Literacy Block this afternoon, we talked about reasons a reader might abandon a book. The kids came up with all kinds of good ones! We all agreed that if one is constantly abandoning a book, they might not be a "real" reader.  

We also had our first Social Studies lesson today! The boys an girls are learning about our First Nations people.  They will be expected to complete a learning journal after (almost) every lesson. They will need to record three interesting things they learned in nice, complete sentences and then they'll need to tell something they'd like to learn more about.  We will complete the first few journals together to make sure everyone gets the swing of things.  

Social Studies Journal (PDF)

I would like the boys and girls to continue to work on those short term goals posted here the other day.  I would also like them to work on spelling all of the words from the Spelling Inventory correctly.