Day 27 - Oct 19

The Calendar: the special helper puts up the date, adds to our weather graph, and counts days at school.

French: http://mllehousja.blogspot.com

Math: 
Students in grade 1 - reviewed ten frames and place value with teen numbers. Students were given numbers 11 - 19. They had to represent each number on two ten frames and then write out the number for example: 17 is 10 and 7 more.

Students in grade 2 -
Worked on number patterns in a number chart from 101 - 200. Students also worked on recognizing odd and even numbers and number patterns through skip counting by 2,5,10,25

Agendas: Students wrote reminders

1. Picture Day forms sent home
2. Lunch forms sent home due back Oct. 23
3. Book orders due Oct. 23rd
4. After School Care invoices due Oct. 19th
5.  Math homework in agenda - doubles
6. Cursive letters T and P, G and H was to be finished last week please complete if not done

Parents please sign/initial your child's agenda to show me that you have read it, when that is done they will get a sticker to decorate their agenda each time.

gym: http://sjamslovan.blogspot.ca

Unit of inquiry:

Today students picked items to go into their IB binders. Students had to pick four pieces of their work and put them under the labels
1. My best
2. Something I worked my hardest on
3. A way I showed a Learner Profile
4. Something I need to improve on

A student from the other grade two class spent some time on researching the difference between provinces and territories. He came in to our classroom to explain to us:

Language:
Students in grade one: Practised putting their new learned spelling words into use, they used them to fill in sentences based on their meaning, words that begin with and end with the same sounds, and rhyming.

Students in grade two: Practised  reviewing spelling words from previous tests into use by filling in a crossword with clues, writing a short blurb using some of the words and using the word meanings to fill in the blanks. 

Once completed students worked on a journal prompt: My Favourite things about Halloween are:

We also read another chapter from our Novel Study Chocolate Fever!

Summary

Henry Green loved chocolate so much that he ate it at every meal--in the regular ways, like chocolate cookies, chocolate cake, and chocolate milk, and in unusual ways, like chocolate syrup on mashed potatoes and chocolate sprinkles on buttered noodles. His parents loved and indulged him; even his older sister and brother were good to him. One morning he broke out in large, brown, chocolate-smelling spots. The school nurse took him to the hospital where he was diagnosed with “Chocolate Fever.” Henry felt afraid, and he ran away. He was picked up by a kind truck driver who was hijacked just as he convinced Henry to call home. What else can go wrong for Henry? Can Chocolate Fever be cured? Will Henry learn to control his chocolate obsession?