Hello everyone! I hope you all had a wonderful week end. Here are a few things that are going on in room 221! This morning we went book shopping around the room to trade in our picture books for our book boxes. Then we traded our read the word books. Everyone is doing excellent work during daily five! We are up to 12 minutes of uninterrupted reading and continue each day to build our stamina! Well done kids! We now have many strategies up on our CAFÉ menu to help us become better readers. This week we are working on reading with expression which helps us with our fluency and asking ourselves questions as we read. This helps us with our comprehension. Tell someone at home what comprehension means!             The students are coming along in their writing quite nicely. Many come to school each day with a topic in their pocket! We have been learning about adjectives and how they help make our stories more interesting because they are describing words! The students are now able to see how well they are doing with their writing by checking at the back of our room to see if their writing matches the sample of a good writer. Writer’s get a thumbs up to: using finger spaces between their words, having a capital letter at the beginning of each sentence and using punctuation at the end of sentences, using the word wall and stretching out sounds of unknown words! We have already been in school for 42 days! That was our number of the day today! Was that number even or odd boys and girls? How did you know? In grade 1 we are learning how to use a ten frame to find out our pairs that make ten. Also, we are learning how to use a number line to help us with our addition sentences and number stories! We also continue to practice our skip counting by 2’s, 5’s, and 10’s.The grades 2’s are looking at number lines too! They are really working hard at skip counting with different starting points. It can get tricky! As you can see we are working really hard here in room 221! I hope everyone has an excellent sleep tonight and comes to school ready to listen and learn!  

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Good afternoon! We had a great day in room 221 today! We started off by learning a new reading strategy called Backup and Reread the text. Ms. Gallant had to back up and reread parts of the Paper Bag Princess so that she could understand what she was reading. Taylor said if you are confused and do not back up and reread you will not know what the book is about! Well done Taylor, that is exactly what this strategy is all about! The class is building their stamina during read to self. Today the class read for 7 minutes without interruption! That certainly filled my bucket! In Math the grade twos worked on skip counting double digit numbers and also solved problems by reading a sandwich pictograph! After lunch we watched a short video about communities. What is a community boys and girls? (A place where people live and work together).  The grade two children are getting the hang of writing in their agendas each day. It is tricky copying notes from the SMART Board into their books but, I am proud that they are trying their best! There were 3 Scholastic book order forms that went home today. The due date for them to be returned is October 10. I hope you all have a lovely evening! The sun is shining so go out and enjoy it while you can!

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