Thursday September 26, 2013

Hi everyone,

• Just a quick reminder that grade one students must come to school wearing their proper uniforms on Thursday. They should bring their P.E. uniforms to change into before class or they are welcome to wear them underneath their regular school uniforms. Thank you!
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•  I have noticed that there have been a growing number of ants in and around the classroom so I have asked that the classroom be sprayed tonight. Hopefully this should help clear things up quickly. 
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• This week the grade one students led the school at Monday's assembly reciting the school songs, the morning prayer, and the pledge. Each day since, a few of them have been doing the morning prayer and the pledge over the morning announcements, and then the Angelus just before lunch. They have been practicing hard and are very proud of themselves. Moreover, they have been very supportive of each other and offering big congratulations after each student's announcement debut. Way to go grade 1's!
• Please note that in celebration of Teacher's Day students at DISK will not attend electives tomorrow, Friday September 27th, 2013. In lieu, we will have a class vote to decide whether we will go outside to play or watch a movie in class during that period. 

This morning in Reading class we talked more about the main idea in a piece of writing and the details that support it. We practiced reading sentences and picking out the one that did not belong. The students did a good job!

We played a fun learning game in Science class today where students threw a soft sticky ball at the whiteboard and had to read the word it landed on and then point to its matching concept. For example, if they threw the ball at the word "observe" they had to point to the magnifying glass and explain that it is used to look at things and make them bigger to see them better.I would then ask them a question to further test their knowledge. For example, look outside and observe the weather and tell me what you see. We had a good time and it definitely helped to solidify the concepts.

Homework: Math
Math Practice Book page 8 (Practice 2.1)
We have started learning about addition in Math class. New vocabulary we are using is, part, and whole. When we put two parts together we get a whole.