Listening & Observing

Today, our main activities focused on listening skills, making observations, and sorting. We discussed what good listening looks like (a concept that seems to be touched on every day since it is the beginning of the school year!). I read two stories to the students this morning: If You Take a Mouse to School and If You Give a Mouse a Cookie. Then, students decided which story they liked best and filled out a listening response sheet, where they had to state how they felt about the story and draw their favourite part. We also did an activity where students had to follow directions to decorate Mr. Potato.


A daily event in our classroom is discussing the weather and how someone would dress for the weather that day. We also had our first discussion about the seasons. Students were noticing that the leaves are changing colours, so we made an executive decision to change the Season part of our weather chart to fall!

 

In Science we took a closer look at our work for last day and assessed  what we did well and what we could work on next time. Then, I introduced an activity that is going to be a weekly event until the end of October. Thanks to my mom for supplying little pumpkins! Students will be observing the changes that their pumpkin goes through by both sketching and photographing their pumpkin. I was very impressed with their work today! The colours of their sketches made sense and they worked really hard at writing the date.

Other highlights of the day included the pancake breakfast this morning, an introduction to the sight words "it", "is", and "a", activities about "same" and different" that will help us with our sorting activities, and a first reading of Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? (more to come about Brown Bear in the weeks to come!). Even though our class was only six strong today, it was another busy day!