Update on our learning...

A reminder to parents to please send a water bottle to school everyday. Your child gets thirsty! Please review students' agendas every night and try to do home reading daily. Please send their agenda and home reading back to school each day. Thank you for all of your help and support! 😊


In Science this week we did some fun colour stations! We did an experiment called "Magic Milk." We poured milk and 2 primary coloured drops of food colouring into our milk. We then dipped a q-tip into dish soap and watched as the milk/colours reacted! We mixed it together to make our secondary colours. We also mixed red plasticine with white plasticine to make different shades of red. We coloured a picture using only the 3 primary colours and we played eye spy in partners.

The Grade 4 students came in to show us how to make a rainbow out of a flashlight, prism and paper. We drew what happened in our visual journals.

In Gym class we are working on throwing and catching. We have a Tchoukball set that we are practicing on. The Grade 6 gym experts came in to show us how it works!




In art class we made poppies for Remembrance Day. We used a sponge and acrylic paint to add texture.




In Math we learned how to play the game war. The game helps us recognize which number is more and which number is less.





In LA we are working on the letters w, h, r, l and e. We encourage you to work on the practices that were sent home on Wednesday. We have started doing LA stations which are called "Daily 5." Students work on independent reading, reading with a partner, listening to stories on the i-pads (using epic), and working on their word booklets. Next week we will introduce the 5th station of daily 5 which is writing.







  


In Social Studies we finished our Remembrance Day booklets and sent them home. Please look in your child's backpack to see their amazing work!

In Religion we are working on praying for others and saying the Our Father. We have been reading bible stories and discussing their meaning. Ask me what my favorite one is so far!

Update on our learning...

In science we went outside and picked a class tree. Our class tree's name is Sparkle. We will follow Sparkle through the different seasons and see if we can notice the changes. Right now we can tell that Sparkle is losing her leaves as they are turning brown, yellow and orange. They are shriveling up  and the wind has brushed them off her branches. We drew what Sparkle looks like in Fall and we will go outside to draw her again in Winter.

We are revisiting our colours unit in science. We mixed yellow and red together to make orange. We painted our pumpkins that we drew and added details with crayon after it dried. We also learned that if we add white to a colour it makes it lighter. If we add black to a colour it makes it darker. We tested it out using the colour red. Look at our great colour variations!

In math we have moved on from our patterns unit to learning about representing numbers 1-20. We have a number of the day that we write the number, the word, fill in our ten frame, and draw a picture of. (See the #5 that we did below). We have talked about how there are many different ways to show numbers such as tally marks or in a ten frame. We have started new math stations in class. We do puzzles, matching games, and find the goldfish.









In LA we have been working on the letters p, t, d, b and a. We had Mrs. Richards come in to teach us a story about each one and show us how there are picture cues in each letter that can remind us of the letter sound. We are now using the lively letters program with her. We have had lots of practice  this week and we encourage you to practice this weekend with the materials we sent home on Wednesday.






In social we are making little books about what groups we belong in. Our first page was about our family. We drew 3 pictures of our family for our little books. Ask me what other groups I belong to.







In art we made torn paper pumpkins! We got to design our own face. Some went with scary and others happy!

Pictures from building the escape room..

Thank you everyone for coming to see our amazing "Weather of Oz" escape room that we made! Our students worked so hard. I was very impressed how everyone worked as a team and did their part. Awesome job!! Here are some pictures from the process.