We had a few things up for debate last week!

As part of Morning Meeting, we learned about how to debate and engage in accountable talk. This week we debated the following topics: 

• kids should chose their own bedtimes
• school should take place from 12:00 pm to 6:00 pm 
• we should have a cafeteria at school
• dogs make the best pets

It was so exciting to see everyone share their ideas and opinions and understand that while we may not agree on everything, we can still sit next to one another, play together on the playground and loan our glue-stick to a classmate in need. We learned that differing opinions are what makes the world go 'round. We also learned that there are times where our opinion is not needed (wink) because sometimes we must follow rules and expectations that are in place for our own safety (e.g. following fire alarm protocol at school).  

Here are some photos I saved from Pinterest to help guide my instruction this week. I've tried to give credit where it's due, but was not always able to find the photo source. 

Please email me at mrs.mihalides@gmail.com if you know the owner of any of these photos and I'll edit my blog post to reflect this.  

http://www.julieballew.com/A_Literate_Life/Photos/Pages/Anchor_Charts.html#57

Memories from our week

It's time to clean up my phone and share some great photos from our week with you!  
Week 25 was a busy and productive one for the kids in room 208! 

We worked in our St. Patrick's Day booklet which not only help develop reading and writing skills,
the questions are designed to prepare students for EQAO. 

We even looked at solving problems related to probability this week! 

  

Alessandro put his glasses on his Smurf to make him look more grumpy! LOL! 

Daniel brought in his beautiful Smurf portrait! Great job Daniel!

We had lots of fun with our Leprechaun directed drawing on Thursday! 

We had fun sharing the picture in our mind we made while reading the story
in the St. Patrick's day booklet. 

As part of our measurement unit, we worked with partners to problem solve! 

When the problems were finished, we displayed them and did a gallery walk to look at one another's work! 

Earlier in the week, we shared our announcements for our fantasy school clubs! The announcement had to grab the listener's attention and include the who,what, where, when and why details.