Thursday

Hello families,

This morning we read a story called "Tally Cat Keeps Track" and talked a little bit more about tally marks. I was seeing that some students were struggling with the idea of tally marks but I think they are definitely understanding it better after today. We had a quick work period where students started working on their Weekly Word practice and did a short activity where they had to determine the numbers represented by tally marks. We talked about counting by 5s and how helpful this can be when working with tally marks! By the end of grade 1, we hope that students can skip count by 5s to 100, 10s to 100, and 2s to 20 and by the end of grade 2, we hope students can skip count by 5s backwards from 100, 10s backwards from 100, and 2s forward to 100.  Grade 2's will also learn to count by 10s, using starting points from 1 to 9  and 2s, starting from 1. This is a great skill to practice on a car ride!

We went outside for gym today and afterwards, we had a presentation from the author and illustrator of "Kidsburgh Chronicles: Little Jack Jarmagan and the Halloween Tale." It was so interesting to learn more about the process or writing, illustrating, and publishing a book! They talked a lot about having to go back and make changes and getting feedback to improve your work.


In the afternoon we had Daily 5 literacy, reviewed our answers for the tally mark activity and continued with work period or a responsible work choice. At the end of the day, we enjoyed guest reader and finished our story about Fluffy the guinea pig.

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