POD: Recognizing World Cerebral Palsy Day
We stepped off the bus this morning into a sea of green! Almost everyone wore green in support of World Cerebral Palsy Day, and our classmate Wyatt was especially pleased to see so much support.
Our spelling words today were 7, 17, 700, and 70, and our “Show, Not Tell” sentence was “It was a hot day.” We worked through our Heggerty listening exercises and completed our maze before doing a quick write about “My Weekend.” Some students are challenging themselves to spell tricky words, while others are focusing on using proper punctuation and capitalization. No matter the goal, everyone is improving!
In math, we practiced representing numbers in different ways and worked on skip counting — by 5s for Grade 2 and by 50s for Grade 3. We also used a hundreds chart to help with addition and subtraction.
Recess was already warm, and the heat kept climbing as the day went on.
Afterwards, we enjoyed some quiet time with “read to self” before logging into our Reading Park app. We had a quick chat about being respectful online and making sure we only log into our own accounts.
In PE, we started learning some fun Halloween dances. It was a perfect activity for such a warm fall day — it reached 28°C at lunchtime, which is incredible for October!
In the afternoon, we headed to the library to work on a Halloween song. We have the song completed, but it still needs a little more practice and polish before it’s performance-ready.
Back in class, we made some weather predictions and had a thoughtful conversation about how people matter. We also watched a few videos about reconciliation and discussed what it means.
We continued reading our chapter book, where Humphrey learned new things about his classmates — and shared a few interesting facts about himself, too. French class included some vocabulary songs, and we wrapped up the day by writing in our Book of Gratitude with the prompt: “I was proud of myself today when…”
It was a beautiful, warm fall day — make sure to spend some time outside and enjoy it! See you in the morning, Cubs!