Short Week...

This week, Mrs. Livingstone took on the task teaching full time in our class. She has been working with us to plan and organize activities and lessons that she is delivering to the students.

Our Abstract Art was finished up this week and is on display in the hallway. 

On Tuesday, the students started off the day writing about their long weekend in their journals. We are beginning to see more details in their writing and proper sentence structure. We encourage the students to write a minimum of 5 sentences but many challenge themselves to write more. 

During our Reading Group time, we began our first Novel Study this week. Freckle Juice by Judy Blume has 5 chapters. We are reading one chapter at at time and completing reflection questions, making predictions and doing various activities related to the events in each chapter. 

We also began a new writing activity this week. The students will be creating various paragraphs about themselves over the course of the remainder of the year. We hope to see progress in these paragraphs as they learn to add more juicy words and create more detailed sentences. Some of the topics they can write on are: My Family, My Pets, My Favourite Movie and My Hobbies. Their entries will be following the Diary of a Wimpy Kid layout and they will be publishing their work using the chrome books. 

In Math, we spent a lot of time on a tricky concept, regrouping ones, tens and hundreds. The students did lessons on the smart board, completed work in their duotangs and used manipulatives to complete some extra practice. The POW this week is based on this concept. 

In Science, the students were shown a video to show how sound can travel (through solids, liquids and gases) and that it travels in all directions. We watched the video A First Look at Sound https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BU15yCk43J4 and completed a prediction sheet. 

In PE, we worked through the Mission Impossible course that our class helped Mrs. Kloschinsky create. It was a tough course, so our "Spies" had to be careful maneuvering through the obstacles. 

To introduce this week's Art lesson, the class watched the online story of "Owl Moon" by Jane Yolen. After listening to the story, the students talked about the main colours used throughout the book. They learned a new word, monochromatic...using many shades, or tints, of one colour. The students started the background of their project by using white paint for their moon. Slowly they added blue paint, creating a variety of tints to create their night scene. After painting, they worked on the foreground of their project by cutting out a branch and owl which will be glued onto their background next week.

Here are our super readers this week! 

Congratulations to our new Student of the Week who is also our super star reader! He is our first student to fly all the way back to the Amazing Race pit stop by reading 3600 minutes!!! Way to go! We are so proud of your determination to meet your goals.

Please continue to practice the music booklet that was sent home. Our Christmas concert is approaching fast!