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!

                                  

It's February! What??!!!

I cannot believe it is February. We are halfway through the school year already. We wrapped up our Swim to Survive last Monday and should be getting our certificates in the next couple of weeks. Big thanks to all the parent volunteers who helped to make this a successful experience. I have posted our February newsletter as well!

Our student teacher, Louise Trudeau, planned an amazing Music lesson last week using the boomwhackers. We were able to sing Twinkle Twinkle Little Star by the end of the block and it sounded amazing.

 

What a Week!

We were super busy creating, laughing, inventing, and most importantly learning last week.

One the favourite activities of the week was to plan, design and create a ship that would go faster than the Rebel ships. With our Star Wars theme in check, the students got to work planning their ship. The only criteria I gave them was that they had to use 2D and 3D shapes and only materials from our Makerspace cart in the Learning Commons. The planning phase proved to be quick and they were off to building. Using what we learned in Science, they realized that they had to give their ships a gentle force to make them fly. Some zoomed and some crashed but that's okay!

 

 

 
 
 

It's Wednesday already!!

Happy Wednesday everyone! Swim to Survive was once again a great success on Monday. You probably notice that the children are very tired on Monday evenings! We have one session left this upcoming Monday. Once again, thanks to the parent volunteers who have attended the sessions.

Our Geometry test will be postponed until next week. The student's need a little more practise!

We have started working on a quick Daily Language Review each day. This review is designed to help and teach spelling and grammar and sentence structure. Remember that a capital letter starts a sentence and there is always an "end mark' (period, question mark or exclamation mark" at the end of a sentence.

We learned that a force is a push or pull and investigated the many kinds of pushes and pulls we have in our daily lives.

This week we worked hard creating a snowman on our google drives on google drawings. They are becoming experts! After they created their snowman they wrote a descriptive paragraph describing the snowman and shared it with their peers.

Watch with Mom and Dad!

Here is a little video we watched this afternoon. It is a great way to start 2017. Please click HERE!

2017 is here!

Welcome back everyone! What a way to start our year off yesterday! The children LOVED Swim to Survive and can't wait to go back next Monday.

This week we are working on New Year resolutions and goals. The children worked hard yesterday to come up with goals that were attainable for them. We also discussed what a "Non-Negotiable" was in our classroom to start our year off right and have posted them in the room to be reminded everyday what those are. Some examples are "Try Something Once Before Giving Up" and "Take Pride in all your Work" We laughed about how such things as "brushing your teeth" is a non-negotiable at home!

Our spelling words for the week are: caught, little, your, you're and clock

In Math, we will continue to work on Geometry: 2D and 3D shapes and will aim to have a quiz towards the end of next week.

In Science, we continue to work on Forces and Motion.

Swim to Survive

Well it's the last Friday of our Christmas holidays! I miss you all terribly but am happy to have spent a wonderful two weeks with family and friends. Did I tell you all how PROUD I am of your Christmas concert performance! AMAZING! You did a wonderful job and thank you to all the parents and families who joined us on that day!

So NUMBER ONE JOB right now is to make sure that you all have your permission form back to school for this Monday, January 9th so that you can attend the very first Swim to Survive Program. 

If for some reason you cannot locate the permission form please click HERE for a copy.  Please remember to come to school on Monday with a swimsuit and towel.