It's icccyyyyy out there!

As I type this I can hear the pitter patter of ice pellets against all my windows. I hear that there has even been some power surges here and there in Orleans this evening. Ice can be heavy for sure. I hope you're all cozy in your beds!

We have had a busy (when aren't we busy!) start to February am I am grateful for all the hard work that everyone has been doing in class. We have been working really hard integrating our math over the last few weeks and will continue to do so until the end of February. We are working on time, temperature and data management. These are great math strands to integrate ~ it's my favourite time of year! Children are learning time to the nearest 5 minutes. Please take the opportunity to tell the time whenever you can at home. Practise makes perfect! It's also the best time of year to work on temperature and we will be starting to keep track and graph the results of over the next week or so. We watched the snow melt and the thermometers rise in class on Monday.

Today we had a full on science and math day (for the most part!) while working on our Marble Run Challenge. We planned, created and tested the marble runs. Pictures will follow tomorrow as I forgot my iPad at school! The students measured the length of their Runs and then we timed how fast it took to run the marble through the tracks. We will compile our results and the students will create graphs to show the differences in all the speeds and lengths. Our results will be recorded and compared to schools all over the world!

In Language, we are really focusing on following those conventions! Students are peer editing and making sure that their fellow students have those capitals, periods and word spelled correctly.

I will be sending home the Geometry quizzes this week as well as a little certificate that shows everyone where their reading levels are at this point. I am proud of you all and am so lucky to be your teacher!