Well, we all survived our first week back. 🙂  In fact, we did more than survive it, I think we learned a few new things and had some fun too.  The students kicked off the year in math with some place value centers.  Here are a few pictures from the first day working on them.

Metacognition – Be sure to ask your child what it means.  Today we learned a little about it and also what fake reading and real reading look like.  Fake reading is when we sound really good reading aloud but we don’t really understand what we just read.  Real reading means that we are actually THINKING while we are reading.  We made a reading salad together (not very edible though) and talked about what it ‘sounds like’ to think while you are reading a text.  Remember students, we always want more lettuce (thinking) than tomatoes (text).

We can’t wait to continue working together to try new things, challenge each other, to celebrate our achievements and encourage each other when we fail.  We ‘love’ how failure reminds us that we still have so much to learn.

Thanks for a fabulous first week back, Grade 5/6 students!  Looking forward to an incredible year together.