We began our sunny Friday by playing "Snow Ball Fight", where friends had to run around a specific area. Once they heard, "snow ball fight!" they had to throw snowballs and duck and run away from snowballs. The snowballs were scrunched up paper balls that had questions written on them. This game was great to help regulate the students and demonstrate great body and muscle awareness, proprioceptive, vestibular and bilateral movements, fine and gross motor skills, motor planning, auditory processing, social problem solving, oral and two way communication skills, and questioning skills on the history of the Olympics, Terry Fox, and two-digit math problems.
Carter and I posing for a selfie!
Zachary reading out his question.
Sander and Avery asking each other questions about Terry Fox.
As always we went over our Question Wheel and looked at different questioning techniques for Show & Tell. Everyone did a great job and used lots of inferencing, questioning and answering skills, oral communication, problem solving, scientific vocabulary, adjectives, and implemented the question wheel and the Five W's. I just want to remind parents that Show & Tell is every Friday! : )
Here we are singing Mr. Sander Happy Birthday! We had cake, cupcakes, and party music with our friends.
Blowing out his birthday "candle" (Mr. Jacob made one from a straw and coloured paper lol).
In Art class today students received a piece of construction paper and asked to make a tree. We had some great discussion on what is a tree, what a tree is made out of, and what a tree entails (roots, trunk, bark, branches, and leaves). Students used great problem solving, scientific vocabulary, fine motor skills, inferencing, and creativity to design their own tree using different kinds of real leaves and paper.
Afterwards we put them to work and cleaned up our cafeteria room. We had to throw garbage away, put away our materials, sweep, wipe, and mop!
Have a fantastic weekend everyone and see you on Monday!
Mr. Jacob
HOMEWORK:
1) Have your child keep a diary of weekend events, family trips, how the weather is changing, etc. and use pictures (use a camera), drawings, photos from magazines and/ or newspapers, and writing to describe their weekend adventures.
2) Continue working on two-digit addition and subtraction problems.
3) Go out in nature and create a picture and/ or a landscape and then write about what they have created. Use scientific vocabulary and do not provide your child with the answer (for anything!) always have them discover for themselves by actively 'doing' and 'investigating' rather than listening to your answers. The answers they solve and find out themselves will lead to greater confidence, success, and retention.
Mr. Jacob : )
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