Thursday September 22, 2001 Day 3

We started the day off with journal writing, graphing the high/low temp and reading the morning message.  Today in the morning message we practiced editing a message with a variety of errors.  There was missing punctuation, spelling mistakes, and grammar mistakes.   It is part of the writing process that children find the most challenging.

We then moved into a lesson on growing patterns and practiced stating a pattern rule.    We went to our desks and students were encouraged to create growing patterns.   We then did a  gallery walk of the patterns that were created.    Some were very challenging!


Athena created a growing pattern.  +4  and added a colour pattern.

Noa created 3 patterns.   Which one is a repeating pattern?
She made two patterns that added one tile each time. She changed position and colours.
What would be the next three steps?



Ella B. created  a +2 pattern and worked vertically.  How many cubes in here next step?
What colour with they be?



Ezra, Noa, Dante, Mike, Stella and Liam  made several challenging patterns.

After recess, we worked on more mapping skills.  Last class we looked at the seven continents.  Today we added the oceans, and the Mediterranean Sea.  We also added the Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn.    We also looked at a map of Canada and found the province of Ontario.     We started a key, and noticed the star signified a capital city, and in this case it was Ottawa.

After lunch we had a Spelling Test.  We then wrote down the words for next weeks lesson.  These words are related to the Math and Social Studies we are doing.

grow          repeat                shrink                core           pattern          standard      expanded       key      ocean        continent            country          Canada          sketch            because

Students then worked on putting these in alphabetical order.   

We then read two more chapters from " Alvin Ho."   Alvin is trying to miss school because he says he is allergic.   

What did Alvin and the other students do to avoid going to school?    Was it successful?

We then filled out our agendas and prepared to visit the library last period with Mr. Brutto and Mary.

HOMEWORK:    Complete  alphabetcial order.  

                             Work on little words from big words.

                             Read.

REMINDER:  IF YOU WANT TO TRY OUT FOR CHEERLEADING FORMS NEED TO BE RETURNED ASAP.  TRYOUTS ARE MONDAY AT LUNCH. 

(These are try-outs and not everyone will make it on the team.     A cheerleading  cluster may be offered later in the year for those that don't make it but want to cheerlead.    We spoke as a class about what try-outs were, and to think carefully about how you may feel if you don't make it.)