Today we: corrected a message written on the board. After being away for a week, I left a greeting message for the students on the board that was full of mistakes. Many noticed immediately, but after our Word Work routine, students wrote the message into their journals and corrected it themselves. We checked all the mistakes as a class and they corrected their own work.
In math, we went over the process for multiplying 2-digit numbers as a class and then they were given practice questions to try on their own. Everyone swapped books with another student and used a different color pencil to mark each other's work while I went through each question and each process on the board with the input of some volunteers. They finished off the morning with some Power of Nine Face-Off games in partners.
In the afternoon, we continued our research on the Canadian Regions. Groups broke out in the Prairie space, the classroom and at the tables to make brochure pages in their visual journals. We finalized the Arctic Region and learned that the frozen tundra of Nunavut makes it hard to grow crops, but there are a lot of minerals in the ground that are mined, like diamonds and gold.
We ended the day with P.E. and they started their Basketball unit. Students practiced their dribble and how to hold and handle the ball in fun and creative ways, like bouncing between the legs and catching with opposite hands.
Stay warm out there!
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