Notices: A skating permission form went home today. Please sign and return.
Also, a notice about a writing contest went home today for students who are interested. It is voluntary but about 1/3 of our class took home the entry form to fill out. All information is on the notice. It is Canada wide, by grade level, and put on by the TD/Canada Trust bank.
Students wrote their Spelling pre-test this morning, followed by multiplication practise in Math, and time to finish their rough draft of their modern Fairy Tale. The students are so keen and enthusiastic about their writing. It is really awesome to see :-) I've read some of the completed rough drafts and many are so hilarious that we are laughing out loud. Awesome job!! We have some very creative and descriptive writers in our class. Tomorrow we will proofread for COPS (capitals, omissions, punctuation, and spelling).
Before lunch students wrote 1 section of the FSA, the shorter writing section. Students who are not writing the test caught up on unfinished work. Breaking the test into sections seems manageable for the students and they were really positive about what was asked of them.
After lunch was Library, Silent Reading, and time to finish work before playing Poison Ball in Gym.
The 2 students who were goofing around, cut corners on the warm-up laps (students have to touch the corners of the gym), and were trying to get the attention of others were given the spotlight. They had to do the chicken dance in front of the entire class. We were all entertained and as another student said, "That is so embarrasing. I'm totally touching the corners."
We'll see if we have any volunteers to dance next week :-)
Mrs. Schneider
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| Poison Ball: Students aren't sitting for long, only until the person who got them out gets tagged with the ball. It gives them a chance to catch their breath (literally!) in this continuous game. |
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