Stamina, Good Fit Books for me, Writing, Math Games and our Classroom Promise!

Reminders: Important forms came home today in my home communication folder. Please fill out and send back as quickly as possible. 

Volunteers:

I will be talking more about this at our upcoming Conferences but until then I could really use a volunteer for some prep work next week. If you have a valid security clearance and would like to come in please email me at imlagrana@cbe.ab.ca




Literacy

This week we have been talking about our reading stamina and how to increase and improve it by practicing reading EVERYDAY!

Did you know that to get better at reading we need to read lots!!

We also need to be able to choose our own books that are a perfect fit for us!

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We practiced chooseing a good fit book today and reading for 6 minutes. We will increase our stamina everyday until we are able to read for 20 minutes without talking, getting distracted, becoming bored or getting tired!

We also filled out our STAMINA graphs and will continue to do so all next week until we reach our goal!

Math Games and Ten Frames

Today we looked at ten frames and played a power of ten game. Ask me what my favorite part of the game was? 

Classroom Promise

Today we read the book "17 Things I'm Not Allowed to do Anymore". 

We begain brainstorming important rules for our classroom community.

Tomorrow we will decide which rules are the most important to us. We will write out a Classroom Promise and sign it as a way to remind ourselves and remember that we are all making these promises to each other. Ask me which Rule I think is the most important one?

STEM BINS!!

Today we got to try out our classroom STEM bins to create, build, design, and think about a specific challenge:

Ask me what materials I used and what I was trying to build? What was difficult? What did I enjoy? If I could do it again what would I change or add to my design?