Thursday March 16th 2017

This morning students wrote: "Wear green tomorrow." We had a chat as a class about the St. Patrick's day tradition of pinching someone who is not wearing green. We reviewed our personal space rule, and how pinching someone does not follow this rule. 

We followed our daily morning routine of French Daily 5, followed by the morning message and calendar time. 

In Social Studies, Grade 1 students reviewed what every map needs to have :a title, a compass rose, a key, symbols and labels, then they were able to start drawing a map of their choice.

Grade 2 students re-visited what they learned about people who contribute to the Inuit community. We talked about how the people that belong to communities are what make it important. We learned about Michael Kugusak (story-teller) Rosemarie Kuptana (Inuit television) Fred Coman (businesses) and Susan Aglukark (Inuit singer). Students selected one of these people to write about.

After little recess and snack, the class was given a building/buoyancy challenge. Grade 1 and 2's were asked to build a water slide (grade 2 water slides needed to be stable and float). Students had the choice of the following materials-molding clay, straws, toothpicks, tape, aluminium foil, corks, paper. 

In religion, we learned about the first passover.

This afternoon, we had time for a round of daily 5, followed by an afternoon message without proper punctuation...

Students enjoyed gym outside with Mme Harding.

Upon their return in the classroom we learned about the question mark (used when you are asking a question ex. Where is my mom?) and the exclamation mark (used when you are happy, excited, frustrated, demanding or angry ex. I'm so angry, I could scream!). Then the class read a variety of sentences with missing punctuation, and they were asked to place the correct punctuation at the end of the sentence.

We read the book: "How to Catch a Leprechaun" and the grade 1's were able to set their traps, grade 2's guessed which trap might catch the leprechaun.