March 4

 Hello everyone!

We have been working on our walking stories for the last few day. Some of us have completed all 4 sections and are ready for some editing and last details, others still need some more time to work on it next week. Here are some examples of our stories so far:

Written all by ourselves! Pretty amazing right?! We have been practicing with the G.U.M. It strategy. G.U.M it stands for, give it a try, underline it, and move on. This helps us to practice sounding words out by ourselves, trying our best to use all the sounds and rules we have learned so far. While we are writing, Ms. Byrne walks around, looks at the underlined words on our page, and tries to help us fill in any missing sounds that will make it easier to read our stories. We're so excited to share these stories with you at home!

We worked on some word problems today in math. We used highlighters to highlight the numbers and important words in the problem, then we wrote the equation to match the problem and found the answer. For a bonus point, we used the question to help us write a sentence to go with our answer. We glued the problems into our math books. 

We filled in our calendar and then had snack.

We got to choose literacy centres today and lots of us wanted to work at the story writing centre! 

We read a book called "The Girl With Big Big Questions." We used this story to practice making predictions. We paused the story at the top of the "climb" and then made some predictions about how we thought the story would end. It turned out, our predictions were right! 

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:

Finn - for offering to play with someone who felt left out during gym.

Ajay - for helping some friends with spelling during our walking story writing

Have a great weekend!

-Ms. Byrne