Daily 5 and Thanksgiving Mass

Daily 5

      Since the beginning of the school year in September, students have been working hard at learning the 5 different stations of the Daily 5 program: Read to Self, Read to Someone, Word Work, Work on Writing, and Listen to Reading. They have practice really hard at mastering some of the important skills needed to be successful during Daily 5 rotations. This week, students have been able to finally experience how Daily 5 is run every day! Students now get a choice of any 3 of the Daily 5 centers EVERY day, and I have already seen some amazing, independent work coming out of our Daily 5 time. I am SO excited to see what else students have to offer during Daily 5! Here is just a sample of some of the great work I have been seeing!

Work on Writing: One of the many options is to write a note to somebody of their choice.

Word Work: Here is an example of a student extending what is expected of them and thus extending their learning. Expectation: Practice writing this week's Word Wall Words on the dry erase boards. Student work: He wrote sentences using the Word Wall Words, and even colour coded the Word Wall Words! Great job!

I will be sure to take many more pictures to showcase what our students are doing during our Daily 5 centers.

Thanksgiving Mass

     Tomorrow (Wednesday, Oct 18th) is our Thanksgiving Mass celebration. Parents are invited to come and celebrate with us! The celebration begins at 9:30am.

    We had our first mass practice today to make sure that everyone remembers how to act and behave during a mass celebration, and to practice all of the songs we may have forgotten over the summer. Our class did a fantastic job listening and participating in the crowd, and we even had a few class members sing in the choir! Tomorrow's mass should be wonderful :)

 Library

   Just a reminder that our Library Day is on THURSDAY, so please return all books before then! It would be great if students could return the books every TUESDAY to help with the checking in and checking out of the books. Thanks!

      Keep checking back for more updates!

  Mrs. Miller