Today in room 8 we read a book called "Of Course It's a Big Deal!" by Bryan Smith. We are learning how to react calmly and appropriately, especially when things do not go as planned. We talked about flexible thinking (being able to change our plan if things don't go as expected), and how getting stuck on an idea can cause us more frustration than finding a different solution. We are using the language "big deal" and "little deal" to describe the size of the problem and to match our reaction to how big a deal the problem is. We learned 4 steps to reacting calmly:
In social studies, we watched a video about a robot being a hall monitor to make sure students in a middle school were stay in class. Students wrote and drew their opinion on if they thought that was a good idea or not. We are practicing using opinion language, stating "I think...because". In math, we continued learning about time. Last week students made a timeline of their day. Today we used our timeline to figure out how much time elapsed between each event throughout their day. It is starting to warm up! We will be heading to Nose Hill Park on Thursday afternoon, weather permitting.
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