Miss Komar's Blog: September 2014

Monday 15 September 2014

Miss.Komars class

Hi it's Ashley again today we got a new student named Charlie today now we have 25 students. Today we celebrated Wonald dahl's birthday.

Hi! I'm ashley I'm the blogger this week I will be telling you what we're doing this week. In are class we have 24 students me, dahlia,Adam,Elaine,Tristin,Shea,Vinson,Carrie,Ryder,Tanner,Jaydon,Layne,Madison,dorian,Brayden,Owen,Daylan,Kelsey,Kristen,Wesley,Parker,Taelyn,Ally,Kristina. That's every one in are class.

Wednesday 10 September 2014

iPads!

We finally got our iPads this week... The kids sure were excited.

We came up with rules and guidelines we all need to follow when using iPads as a class and then we finally got to explore the apps and try a few out!

Some of our rules included:

- hold and carry iPads carefully

- don't go into "Settings" or the "App Store"

- don't use anyone else's iPad or pretend to be anyone else

- only use apps when the teacher asks us to

- be responsible and build relationships

Here we are hard at work talking our STAR reading tests!

Saturday 6 September 2014

Metacognition

This week in ELA we learned about METACOGNITION and real reading.

We learnt that fake reading happens when you read a book, but you are not paying attention. You read the words, but are thinking about something els.e Real reading happens when we read AND think about what we are reading!

We did this by relating reading to salad! Fake reading is like a salad made of just lettuce.... BORING!! Real reading is like a salad with all the delicious toppings, like carrots, onions, tomatoes, croutons, bacon bits and dressing! More delicious, more fun, and definitely more meaningful!

Metacognition is the fancy word to describe this process... it is when we think about our thinking!

(Photo Borrowed)

Tuesday 2 September 2014

First Day of School

Today was our first day of school in Grade 4.
It was so great to meet all my little grade 4 kiddies. I can tell this is going to be an AWESOME year!
It was also great to have the opportunity to meet so many parents as well! I hope if any of you have questions about what is going on in our class, you don't hesitate to call the school and ask!.

Today being the first day of school, and MY first day at a new school, meant it was pretty hectic. The kids all have 1 name to remember, but I have 23 to remember in grade 4 and 26 in grade 3! Crazy.

We did a lot of fun stuff today:

T/F Quiz about Miss. Komar
Wrote our OWN T/F for Miss. Komar
Read "The Girl Who Never Made Mistakes" and learnt that it is OKAY to make mistakes once in a while, that's how we learn and grow!
Played a "name game" in the gym, which got pretty chaotic!
Had a contest to build the BIGGEST SPAGHETTI TOWER ever (which hopefully showed us how important it is to work as a team).
Learnt about the classroom jobs we will be in charge of this year
Had a chance to write about what we did this summer (or what we WISHED we did this summer)

I hope all my students had as much fun as I did today!

Check out the pictures from our tower building... it was awesome!