Tuesday Nov 8th: Research, group work, Poppies and P.E.

Our class wreath for the Remembrance Day, artistic and respectful.

We started the day in the computer lab looking up information on the polar bear. A Canadian senator suggested that we replace the Beaver as Canada's symbol with the Polar bear. The students worked in groups to decide the information they needed to look up. The goal was to take information and facts from the Internet and put them into a one page Word document. The students were given about 45 minutes after which we returned to class and the groups worked to do a common report together. I really like group activities and working as each student brings different skills to the group as well as social and emotional issues as they learn how to work together.

The class in groups to work on project.

Each group gave a presentation to the class.

After recess we had silent reading then the students continued with their group report which took most of the rest of the morning. As a final activity the groups had to present their projects to the rest of the class.

The projects are displayed on the class bulletin board

After lunch we had P.E. where we started with the students practicing ball dribbling techniques individually and with a partner. We followed this with group relay activities and ended with a game of bench ball. Our class assistant mentioned they were all out of breath and quiet in the hall when returning from the gym so it looks like they got their exercise for the day.

A the end of the day the students made poppies for the Remembrance day wreath and worked on finishing their Posters and other work that needed completion.

It was the second of two hard working days, well done class. See you tomorrow afternoon.