In Math, we learned about place value. We learned two place value songs, a rap and Mathy. We also made human numbers to show how the places decide the value of numbers. We played a few math games [The Big Z and Roll 2, Add 10] to practice taking turns, adding numbers and place value.
In Reading, we practiced picking Good Fit Books to make sure we understand the information in the story. We read poems with a partner and talked about what we liked about the poems. We reviewed reading strategies and watched a video on how to use the strategies when you come to a word you don’t know. This will help us to coach each other and reading buddies. It’s really hard not to tell your partner the word!
We wrote about our first day of school jitters and what we were excited about. We wrote about what we expected of our teacher and told our teacher how we learned best.
We did a lot of fun getting to know each other activities this week. We liked the Smarties activity where you picked a coloured Smartie and you had to tell your group a certain thing about yourself based on the legend. We also did a Scavenger Hunt where we had to find people who fit the description in the box, for example, who has a birthday in February, who likes country music, etc… We learned a lot about each other.J
In Art, we talked about the primary colours, what art is and we decorated our portfolios where we will keep all of our creations this year!
Thanks to all the moms and dads for doing their homework this week! There were a lot of forms going home to be filled out.
We’re excited for a wonderful year!