Tuesday, Feb. 10

   Highlights:

• This morning we read some of our class novel and practiced using our reading journals. Ask me tell you what happened!

• In Music, we learned about black history month before practicing our song. Ask me one thing I learned. 
• During Literacy, we learned about opinion writing. Ask me to tell you what opinion topic I chose to write about and the reasons I came up with. 

• In Math, we started creating a multiplication garden to practice our basic facts. Ask me to show you the 0, 1, 2, and 10s basic facts.

Reminders:

• Our class will be doing an optional kindness exchange for Valentines Day tomorrow. See our school website for more details about the exchange. 
• There is no school Thursday, Friday, or Monday next week. Enjoy the extra long weekend!

Monday, Feb 9

  Highlights:

• This morning in Health, we created scribble art. Ask me to tell you how we did it. 
• We did Olympic inspired relay races in P.E. Ask me to tell you about the 3 different race activities!

• During Literacy, we read a book called "Love is" and created a visual journal page about what love means to each of us. Ask me what I wrote so far!

• In Math, we learned a strategy called arrays that can help us solve multiplication and division questions! Ask me to tell you about the strategy and to show you how to use it!

• We did our reading rotations. Ask me what stations I did today!
• This afternoon we had some finish up time! Ask me to tell what I worked on. 

Reminders:

• Our class will be doing an optional kindness exchange for Valentines Day on Wednesday. See our school website for more details about the exchange. 
• There is no school Thursday, Friday, or Monday next week. Enjoy the extra long weekend!

Thursday, Feb. 5

 Highlights:

• This morning in Health, we created a peaceful problem solving wheel. Ask me what strategies I included!

• We played Literacy and Math games. Ask me what games I played. 
• During Literacy, we learned about Black History month and read the book "Meet Viola  Desmond". Ask me who Viola Desmond was and what she did to make a difference!

• In Math, we learned the strategy equal sharing to solve division questions. Ask me to show you how to used it to solve the questions below. 

• During Science, we started learning about natural events that change the surface of the Earth immediately. Ask me to tell you what a natural event is and what ones we have learned about so far. 

Reminders:

• Our class will be doing a kindness exchange for Valentines Day next week on Wednesday February 11. A class list will be sent home later this week. 

If you child would like to bring a message of kindness to other students we ask that you respect the following expectations: 

• Each child in the class should receive a message if your child would like to send something.  (There is no expectation that your child will send a message, but we request that if your child does bring a note or Valentine that no student in their class is left out.) 
• What is written is kind 

For safety reasons, no candy, chocolate or other food items can be handed out. (If your child brings any candy, chocolate or food items, they will be sent back home with them.) Thank you in advance for your cooperation and understanding.

Wednesday, Feb. 4

Highlights:

• This morning in Health, we did "what should you do" conflict cards. Ask me to tell you about some of the conflicts and ways I could react. 
• During P.E., we learned some new information about curling and played some games. Ask me what "takeout", "draw" and "guard" means.

• During Literacy, we started our class novel "A Rover's Story". Ask me what has happened so far!
• In Math, we practiced multiplication and division fact families. Ask me to give you the fact family for the picture below. 

• This afternoon, we went on a  walk around the field to celebrate Winter Walk Day. Ask me what I saw and sketched.  

• We created a layers of the Earth visual journal page. Ask me some facts I learned about the layers of the Earth. 

Reminders:

• Our class will be doing a kindness exchange for Valentines Day next week on Wednesday February 11. A class list will be sent home later this week. 

If you child would like to bring a message of kindness to other students we ask that you respect the following expectations: 

• Each child in the class should receive a message if your child would like to send something.  (There is no expectation that your child will send a message, but we request that if your child does bring a note or Valentine that no student in their class is left out.) 
• What is written is kind 

For safety reasons, no candy, chocolate or other food items can be handed out. (If your child brings any candy, chocolate or food items, they will be sent back home with them.) Thank you in advance for your cooperation and understanding.

Thursday, Jan. 29

 Highlights:

• This morning, we played math and literacy games. Ask me what I chose. 
• We played Crazy Basketball in P.E. Ask me what this means and what objects we used. 

• We finished the story we started yesterday and making our predictions. We then checked to see if our predictions were accurate or if they needed to be changed. Ask me to tell you what I predicted. 
• During Art, we made an art appreciation visual journal page. Ask me what art I chose and the art elements in the paintings. 

• For Literacy, we did a inferencing activity. Ask me to tell you about it and the inferences I made. 

Reminders:

• There is no school tomorrow! 

Wednesday, Jan. 28

Highlights:

• This morning, we worked on finish up!
• In P.E., we continued to play basketball games. Ask me if I scored today. 
• During writing, we did would you rather silly prompts. Ask me what one I did and about the paragraph I wrote!

• Today in Math, we did a SWYK for polygons. Ask me how I feel about it. 
• For Literacy, we learned about predictions. We can make predictions before we read, during reading, and check them after. Ask me what predictions are. 

• During Science, we finished our learning on forces. Ask me to tell you some of the things we learned!

Reminders:

• There is no school on Friday.
• Please bring an extra pair of clean clothes. As the weather is warming up, it is getting very wet and muddy outside. 

Tuesday, Jan. 27

  Highlights:

• This morning, we worked on finish up and glued our tiny gratitude gallery into our visual journals. Ask me what I worked on today. 
• We had music sharing today. Ask me if I shared!
• During Literacy, we learned about making text-to-text and text-to-world connections. We read "Say Something" to practice making these connections. Ask me to tell you about the different types of connections and to give you an example. 

 

• Today in Math, we finished our polygon hunt and did a naming polygon review! Ask me to compare the two shapes below.

• During Social Studies, we did a show what you know. Ask me how I felt about it. 

Reminders:

• There is no school on Friday