Probably more like 2 months.
A thousand apologies... I just really needed some ME time and then I got sick over the break and blah blah blah excuse, excuse, excuse.
The important thing is: I'm back!
What have we been up to since coming back from Christmas break?
- In Science we have started our unit on light and I am SO into it! The kids are too! We do lots of investigations and playing with flashlights and turning out our classroom lights. It's been a lot of fun.
- In math we are finishing up subtracting. I'm still not super into math. HOPEFULLY, we will get through multiplication and division with a minimal amount of heart attacks in the next month and get to move onto something a little more fun and creative and hands on.
- We also started doing "daily math". I had started them on it in September probably but they were having a really hard time with it. I found something a little easier (it even involves some multiplication and division) and we are doing okay with it.
- In art we did some work with pop art and snowflakes (I forgot to take a picture... watch for it next week).
- In health we did some cooperative games (watch for a blog post on the 3 things we tried)
- In grade 8 ELA we started a short story/comic unit! Some of them are super into it. I'm even throwing in some fairytales! (watch for some lessons on these as well)
- Some of those grade 8 students are really getting into the blogs!
- We are working on our editing skills. Pulling out dictionaries and thesaureses and devoting actual time to editing. I hope they are getting it.
- In French we are starting to speak French in French class. What a concept! I'm teaching them basic phrases and words and am making them ask to go to the bathroom in French. It's a start.
AND... here are some photos from the last couple of months (again, a thousand apologies)
We did some 3-D fish art forever ago |
It's hard to tell but these are ornaments on a Christmas tree - we used pastels for the tree branches and water colour for the ornaments) |
Water colour and tissue paper/stained glass trees. I loved how these turned out! And I love how creative they got with them! |
2nd snow day = a day to do some art! What do you think? Art projects coming up: - a piece on movement - a "we are dreaming of warmer weather" piece - something to do with valentine's day! LINKS: 3D Fish Art Stained Glass Trees |
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