Dear Parents, I am away today, but wanted to jump on here to update you. Students have their Biomes presentations on Tuesday. They need to be ready to present with their Google Slides completed. They will have one more class just to practice their presentation with their partner on…
Thursday, January 27th, 2022
Dear Parents, Today, we started off with our Math Minute. After, we took up a practice sheet that students completed first thing this morning with adding commas in a list. When we write a list, there needs to be a comma in between different items and before the word ‘and.’…
Wednesday, January 26th, 2022
Dear Parents, Today, we started off with our Math Minute. Then, we did a few games to review telling time. I highly recommend for students to look up some games to practice independently at home. Then, students worked on pages 136-137 (Lesson 3 of Unit 4) #1-8. It is due…
Tuesday, January 25th, 2022
Dear Parents, Today, we started with the students writing a few different ways to write various times that are quarter to, quarter past, or half past. e.g. 7:15 or 9:30 written as quarter past 7 or half past 9. Then, we did some practice modeling these on our interactive clocks….
Monday, January 24th, 2022
Dear Parents, Today, we started with our new spelling words. They can be found on the spelling page of this blog. The next test will be next Thursday, February 3rd, 2022. Then, I had students do a mixed multiplication and division Math Minute. After, I introduced a new Drama skit…
Friday, January 21st, 2022
Dear Parents, Today, I had students practice their metric notation today by decoding some dates I wrote on the board as soon as they came in. Then, we did our Math Minute (12 times tables today). After, we started talking about time using models of clocks. Students had to practice…
Thursday, January 20th, 2022
Dear Parents, Today, we started off the day with our Spelling Test. I am in the process of marking these and hope to have them on Fresh Grade tonight. Then, we had Math Textbook work on the material that I taught yesterday and had the kids practice in partners. It…
Wednesday, January 19th, 2022
Dear Parents, Today, we started off with our Math Minute and then we started Unit 4: Measurement. We talked a lot about the calendar (I know it doesn’t seem related, but time is a part of measurement). We learned how to write in metric notation form. This means writing the…
Tuesday, January 18th, 2022
Dear Parents, Today, we started off with our Math Test for Unit 3. I am proud of the students – the average is a lot higher on this test (not that marks are everything, but this is a good sign for their foundational multiplication & division skills 🙂 ). This…