Pillars of Care

This morning we continued our work around the Pillars of Care. We focused on Care for Others by brainstorming the qualities a "good classmate" has. We had to think of things a good classmate says, does, is and does not/is not. Some of our ideas were:
A good classmate says:
- Can I help you with your work?
- Do you want to be my partner?
- Are you okay?
- Please
- Thank you

A good classmate is:
- Respectful
- Nice to other people
- Listening
- Marvelous

A good classmate does:
- Their work
- Follows the pillars of care
- Chooses a good spot to sit
- Not talk to people when they are working

A good classmate does not/is not:
- Chasing people
- Talking over the teacher
- Hurting somebody
- Breaking stuff

We also talked about the pillar of care for learning. We brainstormed things that we could do that showed care for learning together and then were asked to write at least 5 sentences about this pillar. Some of us talked about goals we had for our learning in grade two. Some ideas that we developed around care for learning included:
- To do better work than I did in grade one
- Paying attention
- Put your hand up when you have something to say
- Doing what you are supposed to
- Being quiet
- Don't talk when other people are talking and listen when other people are talking

Ms. Binks's class worked on word families today. We focused on word families that could be found in our word wall words from last week. We had to brainstorm words that ended in "ot" like not and hot, "at" like bat and cat and "ad" like in had and glad. Some of us used the alphabet to help replace beginning letters to create our new words.

Mr. Fisher continued to build our visualization skills by reading his mystery book. We couldn't see any of the pictures so we had to use our imaginations and draw our own. He would read small sections of the story and then send us back to our desks to sketch. Today we had to picture the part in the story when Max's guardian angel Wilber taught him how to fly. He told Max that they had to practice dream flying while Max was asleep. We also heard about how much Wilber loved to eat chocolate. Unfortunately he ate too much chocolate and couldn't fly!

Reminders:
- Mr. Fisher's class has library tomorrow. Please return your books
- There is early dismissal on Thursday and no school on Friday
- Our spelling test is on Thursday morning
- If you have not already done so, please sign up for Meet the teacher conferences either Thursday evening or Friday morning