Monday August 26, 2013

• We had a great morning getting organized for the week and allocating new students for our class jobs. We also had our first spelling test and most students did very well. Please sign your child's spelling test. Words that were written incorrectly need to be copied in their spelling book three times each. Also, please go over the testing rules with your child. There are only two, but they are very important and will be strictly enforced.

1. No talking (this includes spelling the word out loud as you write it)

2. No cheating (including looking over at another students paper)

        Any violations of these rules will result in a point deduction from the test, a class point deduction, and based on the situation and number of offences, students may be held in during recess.

• No Homework for Monday August 26, 2013

Normally we would have reading and phonics homework on Mondays but I will not assign homework today just so we can get everyone familiar with the blog and caught up on previous posts. Homework will recommence tomorrow with language and spelling and will be posted here.

• Today during Reading we read a story about travelling to the moon. We are learning about how to pick out the main idea and supporting details in a piece of writing. Students were really engaged in this topic of space and so we had some great discussions and later in the afternoon I showed them a variety of short videos of astronauts landing on the moon, and life in space. They were fascinated by the idea of space being weightless and also at the beautiful images of Earth. I am sure they will be happy to tell you about some of the things they learned.