March 2

 Hello everyone,

Today, we started our day with a new poem called "Colours All Around." We are going to be practicing this poem using choral reading - that means reading it all together. We talked about how reading a poem in choral reading is kind of like singing a song together - we don't just all read the words whenever we want, they follow a rhythm! We practiced following that rhythm together. 

In our morning message it said that we are going to be learning all about story writing! We are very excited to become story authors. We started today by learning about "walking stories" and "climbing stories." Walking stories describe one thing with lots of details. Climbing stories start with describing, then something happens (like a problem) to make the story climb. When the problem gets solved, the story climbs back down. We decided to write our first walking story all about us! We are each writing a 4 panel walking story using different sentence types. We wrote sentences for our first panel today using "I am." When we finish our walking stories we will share some of them with you here!

We filled in our calendar and had snack and recess. Then, we had literacy centres. 

After lunch we had mindfulness time and then we played a new gumball game! This one has sounds with 2-letters like /ew/ and /oo/. We learned all the new sounds today and will be practicing them throughout the next couple of weeks. 

In math, we have been subtracting using pictures. We all felt confident with this strategy, so we completed a page for our math notebooks to show that we are ready to move on to the next one!

After our second recess, we worked on completing the last of our 100th Day of School Activities. If we finished all of our jobs we got to bring all of our 100th day work home with us, so look for that in our backpacks!

In gym we are learning basketball skills. Today we got to practice bouncing a ball to a partner, and then played a dribbling keep away game that was lots of fun!

Reminders:

- March 10 and 11 - Parent/Teacher Conversations - appointments can now be booked through your MyCBE account. If you have any issues booking an appointment you can email me and I will book an appointment on my end. 

- No School - Friday, March 11 - due to Parent/Teacher Conversations

- Spring Break - March 18th is the last day of classes before Spring Break. Classes will resume on March 28th

Student Shoutouts:

Jayla - for working super hard today!

Jakob - for being a helpful and kind!

Have a great evening!

-Ms. Byrne