Today we: are wearing patterns for today's Numeracy week Spirit Day. Our usual morning routine starts with 5 minutes of mindfulness to get into the green zone and be ready for learning. Phonics sounds are progressing well, the students are starting to know what to expect. Word work has changed since the classroom layout is different, so some groups have a new location to perform their tasks. There will be an assessment after the break as we look at who is progressing and what groups may need to be rearranged now that we have gone through a couple units of word sorts.
In math, we explored equivalent fractions. They each got a colorful handout of a fraction tower to cut out and glue into their math books and we will be referring to them plenty as we go through the topic. Visual representations are a great way to understand fractions, and the students seem to love my references to pies and cakes! Some lightbulbs certainly went off today when we discussed how to make equivalent fractions using our times table charts. Now they know why we spent so much time learning them!
After lunch, students had music and P.E. again. When they returned to the classroom, we watched another video for the settlers of Canada. This one was about the large population of Ukrainian people who immigrated before the first world war, and how they were drawn by the vast amount of land and lack of landlords.
Tomorrow is St. Patrick's Day, so remind your kiddos to wear green! Again, be sure to return the signed permission form so we can begin a health unit at the end of April. Only 2 days left and we are on Spring Break, yay!
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