Good morning Division 9 students! Happy Thursday!

I hope you had fun on Raz Kids yesterday! I can’t wait to check out your Avatars and your Raz Rockets. I had fun building Avatars and decorating Raz Rockets for Matthew and Maria – those are practice students for me to use while learning how to use this new program. There is so much new to learn for your teacher, too!!!

GALLERY and MATH RESPONSES – ask your parents for the password to check out these new pages.

COMMENTS – please do encourage your child to post in the comments section of that day’s blog when I suggest it for an activity. It won’t show up right away as I have to approve each comment before it is posted to the blog. Once I approve the post, students can go back and click on Comments to see what their classmates said. There are two possible assignments to make COMMENTS on today.

ASSIGNMENT #1 – LIBRARY

It’s Thursday and we get to “visit” Mrs. Field’s Library Blog and hear a story today! We have read other stories by Kevin Henkes in class. I challenge you to find more Kevin Henkes titles and share them in the COMMENTS section on this blog post. Maybe you have some Kevin Henkes books at home or you could check out the new Bookmark called Epic Books – it has SO many books to choose from. Our Classroom Code is jix0425 

ASSIGNMENT #2 – MATH

Counting collections of the same kind of coins (e.g. all nickels, all dimes or all quarters)  is just like skip counting by 5s, 10s, and 25s. Use your skip counting skills to count the collections of coins on this Counting Similar Coins worksheet – please ask your parents to take a picture of your completed worksheet and send it to me. Remember, if you don’t have a printer, you can write your answers in an email or on a piece of paper and take a picture to send me instead. As an extension, use your collection of coins to create and count different amounts of the same kind of coins. You can create them yourself or if your parents/brother/sister aren’t busy, ask someone else to create coin collections for you.

ASSIGNMENT #3 – RAZ KIDS

Listen to the story. Read the story. Do the Quiz for one story. I do check to see how your reading is going and that you are following the steps. Look for messages from me in the speaking bubble. If you haven’t found the Messages, My Stats and Star Zone buttons yet, be sure to scroll down to the bottom of the page to find them – under Level Up!

ASSIGNMENT #4 – MUSIC

It’s an exciting day because you get to visit another new blog – Mr. Smith’s Music Blog!!! It’s still under construction but there are some songs to listen to under the Grade 2/3 Menu.

PHYSICAL ACTIVITY 

Get outside and enjoy some fresh air and sunshine! Walk, bike ride, jump rope, play badminton, bounce/kick a ball or something else. Share what outside activity you did today in the COMMENTS section of the blog.