May 12, 2011

K-2 News
We finished our You and Your World unit today. We discussed how the Mi'kmaq and Maliseet people used storytelling as a way to important lessons. We read a story called The Granddaughter and the Big Fish. The lesson we learned was to listen to what your parent or guardian tells you.

***Backwards Day is tomorrow so dress up and show some school spirit :)

Grade 1 News
In Literacy, we talked about sentence structure and fluency. Sometimes our sentences can be confusing for other to read. For example: "He saw it." This sentence poses many questions, like WHO? and WHAT? We practiced filling our sentences with lots of great words to help describe what we are trying to say. Some of the students changed that sentence into: "Thomas saw a bee in a tree at the park." Great work kids!

In Math we made shapes with smaller shapes, then we traced the shapes we created and colored in the smaller shapes we had used.

Celebrates
Jake, Thomas, and Sierra for doing a great job with including WHO, WHAT, and WHERE in their sentences
Jordan for using critical thinking skills in our discussion about Aboriginal communities
My K-2 class for doing such a great job at sorting items into either Now OR Then during our You and Your World activity
Taylar for having a great attitude!
Jaykell for reading 160 books so far this year, keep up the great work!