Wednesday with Team 72

Happy New Year Children and Families!

Reminders:

HOME READING:  All students need to be reading for 15 minutes every night.  You could listen to someone read, read a home reading book, read using Raz-Kids, read our POWER words or read a favourite book you have at home.

-Return Mad Science permission form by Friday please

-Return Swimming Level form by Friday please

-It’s still cold! Dress warm every day with snowpants, boots, jackets, hats and mitts!

Important Words:

POWER WORDS:            her, him, very, I’m, play

These are words we are learning to read and spell.

ACADEMIC WORDS:       data, tally, survey                                                             community, tradition, celebration, value

These are words that we are learning to understand the meaning of in math and social studies.

Today:

We practiced reading to self and reading to someone.

We tried out some yoga moves for our body break.

We added an Inferring symbol to our comprehension thinking caps today. Ask me what mine looks like. 

In word work we used the letters b d g s r e i to make words. 

In math we used tally or check marks to collect data for a survey.

Ask me what I did during music and phys ed.

We listened to 2 books today.  One called peace by  wendy anderson halperin and one called Bella and Harry visit Paris! by Lisa Manzione.

We talked about very important words that will help us learn about our Cranston School Community during Social Studies.

Blog Question:  Do you know what any of our academic words (see the list above) mean?

Tomorrow’s Class Leader: Wesley (remember to bring a picture to share.  A photograph or a picture you have drawn yourself)

See you tomorrow!  J

Ms. MacMillan

lgmacmillan@cbe.ab.ca