Our Day!

Wow! What a busy day of learning we had today.  It started off with stations in the gym.  Many of us like practicing our balancing on the bosu balls and others like to practice our ball skills with the basketballs.  After gym we looked at our blog and discovered a message from Mrs. Betts' daughter.  We found out she is living in Yellowknife which is just below the Arctic Circle.  We connected her writing to our learning about animal habitats.  She told us about the ptarmigan which is a bird that changes colour in the winter to match the snow!


Next we learned about how to choose a "just right" book for our independent reading times.  If we need a reminder we can always look at the chart hanging in our classroom. 

After recess we had Buddies which is one of our favourite activities.  Mrs. Betts reviewed how to make a good comment on a post - first you need to restate or echo back what the person said, then you need to make a connection, and finally you ask a question so that you keep the conversation going.  After reviewing the criteria for commenting on a blog post our job was to go back to a comment we had made and revise it to make it better.  Mrs. Betts said we did a much better job with our comments! 

In the afternoon we used the iPad app "Draw and Tell" to record equations for adding "10" and then to explain our thinking.  We ended our day with some center activities - lego building, Kid Picks, iPad exploration and so much more!