Special Guest

We were very happy to have Mrs. Maserek visit our class, and read us a story.

10 Frame Addition

We used our 10 frame cards to play a game with the fact family for 10.
We were amazed at how easily we could add numbers to 10 with out even
counting.

Reading Strategies

Today we practised a new reading strategy called "Blend sounds; Stretch and reread". When we come to a word that we cannot read we can try to take the sounds and blend them together. We take an elastic band and pull the band apart a bit with each sound in the word, stretching out both the band and the word. When we have said each sound and the band is tight we move our hands and the band quickly back together and say the word at the same time, blending the sounds together.

Rhyming

In this reading group we are working on rhyming words. We played a
card game, where we had to find three rhyming words that matched.

Estimating

Today in math we practised estimating quantities. We worked in partners, and went through 6 different station. At each station we would first peek into the bag and estimate how many objects were in the bag. We would record our guess, then we would empty the objects out of the bag to count them and see how close our estimation was.

Painting

We painted dinosaurs today, for the final page of the class book we are writing called 'I Have It'.

Math Pods - adding numbers to 20

We worked on Math pods today in Math. One group worked with Mrs. Trost showing different ways to make 15 with two numbers. One grouped worked on the computer using 10 frames to add numbers up to twenty. One group used the Power of Ten cards to play a game where they had to add two numbers, the person with the biggest number got to take the cards played.

Olympic Athlete

We were very excited to have Lori Ann Mundt, as a guest speaker at our school today. Lori Anne is an Olympic Athlete who was born in Yorkton, and started her volleyball career at Yorkdale school. Lori Anne competed for Canada at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia. There she finished in 10th place with the Women's National Team after having won the bronze medal a year earlier at the Pan American Games.

Tasty Experiment

We are talking about our five senses in Science. Today we learned that our sense of
taste doesn't work very well without our sense of smell. We plugged our nose, then put a life saver in our mouth, and tryed to guess what flavour it was. Most of the time we couldn't guess until we unplugged our nose.

Spelling Practice

We practiced for our spelling test today. Our partners gave us the words, and we wrote them on the chalkboards.

Adding with 10 Frames

We used two ten frames in Math today, to add numbers up to twenty.