Friday November 25th: Moving class, Reports, Triangular Kites and Buddies

Notice:
Craft Fair in the Gym this Weekend check it out.


Lots of new pictures of our kite project and buddies are posted in our photo library.

Our temporary Class

We began the day setting ourselves up in the library/computer lab/ smart board area. Our class is having our windows and floors replaced as they are as old as the building itself. It appears we will be out of our room for about a week. It will be a great time for us to do projects with a greater technology focus. After we were settled in out temp classroom we began with our regular spelling test which was marked, recorded and sent home.

After recess we talked about endangered vs extinct animals and in keeping with the Science unit started by Mrs. O, the first tech project will have them working on a traditional project using the computer which they will then branch into a super electronic version. We talked about plagiarism and how to make information their own. The students began by researching an endangered or recently extinct animal and moving bits of information off the Internet in one sentence or less packets into Microsoft Word.




We had an early lunch as our class was one of two classes in the school that was chosen for a Science/Math Kite making activity by students from Camosun collage. The activity began about 11:30 and we worked on them through the regular lunch time until about 1:30. The activity was fun and quite challenging for many as it involved lots of tying of small knots. In the end, however, almost all of the students were successful in making their kite. We did not have time to fly them today as we were off to buddies with Mrs. Dagg's class. In buddies the students worked on math addition with their little buddies. Mrs. Dagg has a counting system she uses that helps the students conceptualize the written numbers with the abstract concept of the number. I think it was good for some of my students as well as the grade one's.




With the last 30 min of the day we said good-bye to Mrs. M who has been in the class working with many of our students on math, language arts or whatever other help they needed. She is well liked, talented, positive and cheerful and has helped many of the students in a very patient and supportive way. Mrs. M. is going to James Bay Elementary into a permanent position so, although we will miss her, we wish her well at her new assignment. Thank you Mrs. M. for everything and the treats...




See you all Monday, hope you manage to fly those kites in the storms they are promising this weekend.