Aug. 18, 2016

Good afternoon everyone! There are some important announcements below, so please read the whole blog.

The morning was busy learning more Daily 5 routines and building stamina. The students are now able to read independently for 11 minutes and write for 9 minutes! Our focus lesson today was how to determine if a text is fiction or non-fiction. We also played a quick phonics game using words with short vowel sounds.



After lunch we had Social Studies and looked at several maps to differentiate between them and discuss which maps we could use.

In Math, we identified place value of numbers up to 999,999. We also reviewed the unit and played a review math BINGO game on the interactive whiteboard.



In ECA the students continued the surveys from yesterday and began to use their data and made a plan of how it can be presented.



HOMEWORK:
1) study for the spelling test
2) Math p. 7 (I will correct the homework and do corrections before tomorrow's quiz).
3) LA - 5 spelling word sentences - please choose the other 5 spelling words you haven't used yet and make a sentence of at least five words.

NOTICES:
- Show and Tell tomorrow - it can be anything you want, but please no living things, and it should be able to fit in your school bag.
- PE tomorrow as well, please wear your PE uniforms

PARENT/TEACHER MEETING:
- it is on this Saturday - you may arrive after 8:00am and go to the gym because there will be a Book Fair. The homeroom teacher's classroom will be open from 9:00am until 10:00am. I will be discussing many things for this coming school year, and please bring any questions you may have. From 10:15am - 10:45am, parents can to the library and meet the specialty teachers, or have the chance to visit the Book Fair again. The morning activities end in the gym for greetings and announcements from 10:45am - 11:15am.
- students can stay in the office lobby and watch a movie during the parent's meetings.
- I hope to see you all there, it will be great to meet you, if I haven't already.

Have a nice evening!

Mr. Y

Aug. 17, 2016

It was another rainy day today, but the students were still shining in their efforts.

The students are still learning about how the Daily 5 works, and they are doing a fantastic job! We learned how to coach each other when doing Read to Someone. We also distinguished between complete and incomplete sentences.

For Science, we began the new lesson on what scientists do with all the data they collect. They made surveys and asked the grade 2 class the questions. Next step is to use the data and turn it into a tally chart or bar graph.

 

HOMEWORK:
1) English p. 1
2) Spelling word sentences - please choose 5 of your spelling words and make a sentence (needs to be five words long, or more)

NOTICES:
- Friday is Show and Tell so please think about what you can bring in
- Spelling test and Math quiz Friday

Have a nice evening.

Mr. Y

Aug. 16, 2016

Good day parents and teachers!!

We had a wonderfully busy day working on different tasks individually and in small groups today.

Here's what went down:

1) Language Arts and Reading/Phonics - built Read to Self stamina, set up the Daily 5 binders, and our Daily 5 focus lesson was Back up and Reread.
2) Math - solved problems using patterns, and identified place value of numbers to 99,999.



3) Social Studies - generalized topics based on facts
4) Science - finished our investigation with paper airplanes and discovered how making a model can help.

HOMEWORK:
1) Math p. 6
2) Science p. 27-28

NOTICES:
- I have placed a link to Mr. Yanna's PE/Health blog, and Mr. Tung's Chinese class blog on our blog site (top right corner)
- we will have Show and Tell on Friday - students can bring anything they want to show, maybe some special souvenir or gift from another country
- PE Day tomorrow, please wear your PE clothes


Have a nice evening!  Stay dry!

Mr. Y

Aug. 15, 2016

Happy Monday everybody!  I hope you all had a nice weekend.

This morning we had assembly and then Reading and Phonics. We defined some new vocabulary words and began the story, "A Fine, Fine School."

In Math, we identified the place value of numbers to 9,999.



For Social Studies, we described regions and people in communities. We discussed how people are diverse around the world.

In Science, the students got to look at some different tools used to make observations.




In ECA, we will try to have a weekly appointment with the Kinder 2 class and be their reading buddies. Today went very well and our students did a wonderful job assisting the little ones with their reading. Great job!



HOMEWORK:
1) Math p. 4
2) Social Studies p. 21, #5 and 6

NOTICES:
- the Parent/Teacher meeting will be this Saturday, August 20. Parents can arrive and meet in the gym between 8:45am-9:00am.
- Spelling Test on Friday
- Math quiz on Chapter 1 also on Friday
- another friendly reminder to please hand in the lunch money, as well as the tissue needed for classroom use. I am requesting one big pack of tissues, please, and it should last us for the rest of the year. Thank you.

Have a great evening!

Mr. Y

Aug. 12, 2016

Welcome to the end of the week!  We managed to survive very well and had some fun along the way. I'm very proud and excited to have such a great class. It will for surely be a great year.

The first period was Language Arts, and we recognized how to pick a book properly. We also worked on our Read to Self stamina, and the students are well on their way to becoming amazing independent readers.

Right before lunch we had Math. The students colored and cut out base 10 lines until we had enough to see how many 1000 was. We related 1000 to hundreds and tens once we hung it up.



In Science, we made and tested a model airplane. Students made paper airplanes and began to test them. We will continue this lesson on Monday.

 

New SPELLING Words: Spelling tests will be on Friday mornings. I like to take a mix of vocabulary words and commonly used words. 5 of the new words can be found in Journeys p. 10-11.

soared, worried, announced, certainly, strolled, predict, observe, community, hundred, thousand

HOMEWORK:
1) Think-Tac-Toe - students are to choose 5 spelling words and complete 3 activities in the Think-Tac-Toe. Please choose one activity from each column, and you do not have to make a line to win like in tic-tac-toe.

NOTICES:
- Next Saturday, August 20 will be our meet the teacher day. I hope to see you all there, more information will be provided next week.
- sorry for the delay in handing out our class schedule, but it is now finalized and Library class will be on Mondays.

I would like to again express how proud I am of the Grade 3 students this week. We had a lot to do and the students responded very well. It's going to be a great year.

Have an awesome weekend.

Mr. Y

August 11, 2016

We had a wonderful, fun day today learning new concepts and playing with technology again.

We began with learning about the Daily 5 again, and the students were introduced to Work on Writing. They started to list numerous topics in their notebooks so they will be ready to write when they need. We also built our reading and writing staminas. The students seem as excited as I am to get the Daily 5 program going.



In Social Studies the students stated things that make a good community. We talked about how people move to a location with natural resources. The students got to be actors and pretended to use a natural resource and the other students guessed what resource it was.



Finally, we identified the place value of numbers to 999 in Math. The students took turns using the interactive whiteboard to write standard and expanded forms of numbers.



HOMEWORK:
1) Math p. 2
2) Language worksheet - read the comic and answer the questions. Basically, they have to find the nouns in the sentences.

NOTICES:
- tomorrow is PE day and it's also the second Friday of the month so that means casual clothes day. Please wear your PE clothes to school (Sports Day shirts on Fridays), and also bring a change of clothes. Please make sure your casual clothing is appropriate for school.
- please bring in a package of tissue for classroom use as specified in the introduction letter. Usually a package comes with 12-16 packs of tissue. If we all bring one in, it should be enough for the year.
- also, please hand in your electives choices (you have until Monday)

Thanks again for your help this week. We have one more day, and the students have been wonderful all week even though I know it's been a long week for them returning from vacation.

Have a fantastic evening.

PS - Thank you for taking the time to read the blogs.I will be posting pictures all year as well, so I hope you enjoy.

Mr. Y