Today we were able to celebrate our fundraising success with the Terry Fox Run (Over $6600!), with a special performance from Steve Harmer and "Motivational Magic". Click on it to go directly to his website to see some of what we got to see! Students were engaged and excited to watch as he spun his fruit punch upside down without spilling a drop!! (Ask your parents what the scientific word is behind the force that kept the fruit punch in the cups!) We also watched him hatch a balloon into a real dove and a cardboard bunny into the read thing!!
Magic with a message!
In with all the magic, was a key message about how each and everyone of us can be and are heros! Steve defined the word HERO, into four words, each starting with one of the letters in the word. Can you remember what each of the words were? Pss...here is a hint...
H (help others and yourself with your hands and actions)
E (encourage others and yourself with your words)
R (respect and others and yourself with your thoughts)
O (think of others)
Parents share with your child an example of when you were a hero, students share with your parents an example of when you were a hero.
As a class, we came up with two goals that we are going to work on this week as a group.
1. To respect each other by working quietly (especially in art).
2. To use read to self with purpose and intent by reading for 15 minutes in class each day.
Ask your child how he or she was today in regards to the goal and how the class was as a whole.
We have been working a great deal on learning the different spellings and meanings of a variety of homonyms! The flip books the students have been working on have been coming out quite nicely. The main ones we would like to work on are:
their; there; they're
to;too;two
where; wear
witch; which
ate; eight
write; right
hear; here
red;read
as they are coming up a lot in their writing.
At home they should be busy finishing up reading their book (unless it is finished already) for their book project and should be starting to work on the project itself. A good idea is to have the project finished early enough so that your child will have time to practice presenting their work before the big day! Eye contact with the audience and fluency with what they are saying when presenting are key. Again, if you have any questions, please refer to the instruction sheets I emailed out earlier last week, or email me.
Important information;
Picture retake day is ACTUALLY Thursday, October 24th (not today, as I thought, sorry about that Wilson!)
Wednesday, October 30th- Halloween Howler! If you have not ordered tickets yet, please do so ASAP!!
Thursday, October 31st! Happy Halloween! (Yes we will be able to dress up and yes we will be doing something in class)
Friday, November 1st (NO SCHOOL- PD DAY!)
Homework:
Play outside
read 15-30 minutes
mathletics
work on book project that is due next week.
Question for the blog:
What sentence can you write that includes at least one homonym? (underline the word that is a homonym). Remember that when you are typing, you need to check your work for punctuation and re-read it to make sure that it makes sense, and that you have not forgotten any words.
See you tomorrow,
Ms. Handelsman
