Tuesday, September 22, 2015

Today was a very productive day!!!

This morning the students finished typing out their "How to Be Me" writing assignment and they were all very exciting to read.  I learned a great deal about my students from this writing assignment.

The students adventured off to music and gym class in the morning.

As a class we continued to read "Frindle".  Please ask your child what happened when the reporter showed up at the school.  We shared some of the made up words that were completed on the blog from last night and I was very pleased!!!!  Please have your child complete the HOMEWORK blog from yesterday.  As a class we are going to create a dictionary full of our new words and definitions.

This afternoon the grade 3 students continued with the SLAs while the grade 4 students continued to work on their zoo project.  The grade 4s watched a quick video on the difference between a perimeter and area.

Area and Perimeter Video

During writing we started to investigate the different types of tools for writing.  We first read the book Max's Words (by Kate Banks).  Then, the first tool we discussed as a class was "Adding Detail", by discussing the difference between robotic writing and writing full of detail.

Towards the end of the day Cranston had a Terry Fox assembly.  Fundraising forms and tattoos have been handed out to the students.

We will NOT be having Running Club on Thursday at lunch due to our Open House in the evening.  We will still make sure that we have 10 full sessions in the fall.  See you at the next Running Club session on Tuesday, September 29th.

Keep on RUNNING!