Tuesday Sept 20

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Weekly Spelling will start next Week as this is a short week.

The students asked for the first half hour to work on catching up on work due. I guess like me they did nothing on the long weekend. ha ha...

These students proudly show their mini books from last week. The mini-book was a circular story that began and ended at the same place. It was based on the popular book series by.... If you give a mouse a cookie.

This weeks mini-book writing theme is Fear. We read the poem Frightened by Shell Silverstein, and the book "There is a Nightmare in my Closet" by Murcer Mayer. Both the story and the poem are intended to help children face their fear. This Friday the students can earn the movie "Monsters Inc." if enough students have finished their work.

Here are some tips for parents on helping children with fears:

Tips

• Respect your child’s fears.
• Understand that your child will outgrow most fears.
• Allow your child to gradually work through the fear.
• Understand fears in relation to your child’s personality
• Be aware of the variety of fears children experience at different ages

After recess the students had a library and reading period. Students all took out two books, one of which is to stay at school and the second may come back and forth from home. For math, just prior to lunch, the students were given a math diagnostic quizz so we can set up appropriate learning groups for each of the students. The quizz was given by our learning assistance teacher Mrs. Colley (Holt).

After lunch we read or worked on our mini-book on a fear (due next monday) had a rousing P.E. period followed by Social Studies. In Social studies we are looking at the diversity of First nations houses, homes group dwellings etc. Our focus is on how resources from the natural environment were used to make a wide variety of amazing buildings to suit the lifestyles of each of the First Nations peoples. Today we wrote about the Inuit show house the Igloo. We finished the day with a rousing game of P.E. with Mr. Edwards class.