Today we worked through three rounds of Daily 5 and Mrs. Zwack and Mrs. Peterson worked with small groups to quiz their Words Their Way lists. It is evident that many students are working on these at home and we appreciate their effort! We have time during Daily 5 for this in class but the extra review at home makes a world of difference. There will be no new words this week. Students will receive their new words following the Family day weekend.
We watched a few short videos on Growth Mindset and talked about how they fit in with our previous work and what new ideas were presented.
Mrs. Kenna and her class came in for French today - this will be our regular routine on Monday mornings from now on. We learned about a new verb today and how to say it in a number of ways, depending on who was doing the action. It was pretty tricky and Mrs. Zwack really had to pay close attention!! We wrapped up with the number game that we learned last week!
The afternoon was full of celebration. We started off learning about Chinese New Year also known as Lunar New Year. We watched the following video that explained some of the customs and tradition.
We then did a guided drawing in our Visual Journals for Year of the Monkey. If you would like to practice at home you can go to this link:
We worked with our buddies in Room 51. We learned how to use chopsticks and then practiced picking up all kinds of items.
The final treat of the day was having the Calgary Tai Chi and Martial Arts College come to our school and perform the Lion Dance and demonstrate some of their Martial Arts routines. This was very exciting and we loved to see them.
We must not forget the kindies started off our whole school celebration by singing "Gung Hay Fat Choy." They were spectacular!
As you can see we had a very eventful day. Happy New Year to All!
Things to Remember:
1.) Wednesday Morning is Carnaval - please dress for the weaather
2.) Thursday and Friday is Teachers' Convention - No School for Students
3.) Monday, February 15th is Family Day - No School
Question of the Day:
You experienced a lot of new things today. Tell us about your day. What did you enjoy? What would you like to learn more about?
My favourite part was doing the drawings. I would like to learn more about what you do with the red packets.
ReplyDeleteEmily M
My favourite part was seeing the lion dance. And I would like to learn more about using chop sticks.
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I enjoyed the lion dancers. I want to learn about using chop sticks.- Lexi
ReplyDeleteMy favorite part of the day was playing the game in French. I would more practice using chopsticks.
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed that we did a good amount of art today. I liked learning new words in French. I would like to learn more about Mars.
ReplyDeleteI liked the dragon and I would like to know more about the celebrations at Chinese New Year. Andrea
ReplyDeleteI loved the dragon dance:) I WOULD like to learn why chopsticks are so hard to use!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteI love the Dragon Dance and what I want to learn more about is how to use chopsticks.
ReplyDeleteAliya!
I loved doing our artwork & want to learn how to use chopsticks better! The dragon dance was awesome too.
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