Happy Monday!

     It was great to come back to the classroom after missing a couple days due to in-services I couldn't miss! One of my days away was dealing with technology. We will be getting 5 mini Ipads for our classroom which I am very excited about. Older grades will be getting Chrome books which are also quite neat. At the in-service we talked about many things and became familiar with a few new websites/apps. The one app is called "ChatterPix". This app allows you to take a picture of whatever you wold like, make a mouth and then record a voice. Here are a couple examples from our work today. In the future we will use this app to create stories or use it as a creative way to share their knowledge. 

     We also had Grade 8 Buddies today. In order to get to know them we had an activity where we got to eat and talk to our buddy! We had mini starbursts and for each colour there were two questions we had to ask. We asked them their favourite colour, favourite sport they liked to play or watch, and who is all in their family. I made those questions and then I asked what they wanted to know about their buddy. Some offered questions like: "Where do they live?" and "What does their house look like?". I don't know about you, but those were not questions that I would have thought of! We will be working with our buddies throughout the year and we will do activities as simple as reading to each other and some Math/ Art activities. Here are some photos from today with our "Getting to Know You" activity:

Sight Words for this week: 

a 

me

at

it

like