September 21, 2022

 Good afternoon!


Today was a great day! Tomorrow, Sept 22, Northern Lights School is hosting our Open House from 5-7. Please check your emails for more information about this. 

This morning the students had PE and were practicing their running for the Terry Fox run that they were going to do later. 

While we waited for our turn to go do the Terry Fox run, we practiced our rhythm cup activity. We got to sit in a circle and practice passing it to the next person, like the game asks. We will move on to a different topic sometime next week. 

In Math, we continued to work on our worksheets and practiced area and perimeter. Those students who were done, practiced area and perimeter by playing a math game where they were either the virus or the vaccine to change or create a zombie. The students had a blast. 



We continued our read aloud of Pax and finished Chapter 14 and started Chapter 15.

After lunch students continued to use strategies to read to self! After reading, we discussed the 'A' in CAFE. It means Accuracy. We then discussed different strategies that can help us read stories correctly. When we read we make sure we are looking at the letters and sounding out the words in different ways. 




In Social, we continued to learn about our identity and today we created categories and the students had to choose one from each category. We then did a gallery walk that allowed the students to see how everyone is different but that there were some similarities too. We will take our knowledge and continue to learn more about Canada. 


I hope you have a great evening! I hope to meet you at tomorrow's open house!


Miss. Hillier 



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