Dear awesome families,
This week we:
* We did reading. Every day we do reading alone and then reading together. We do reading alone for 20 minutes. At reading alone we make sure we are reading quietly. We do reading together for however many minutes are left before lunch. We go to Mr. Marta's classroom for reading, except on Wednesday. There are two groups who have started a book club. The books are "The Last Firehawk" and "The Chicken Squad".
* We had gym on Monday. Half the group played soccer with Mrs. Marta and half the group did basketball skills with Mr. Marta. Half way through we switched.
* We did writing every day. First we do planning, then silent write and finally we do work on write.
* During snack we do writing share. Kids can share their writing with the whole class. When they are done we get compliments about our writing, and then we can put it in the student author box.
* We had outdoor ed. on Wednesday. We did leaf rubbings and pictures.
* The grade 2's have music on Tuesday, and the grade 3's have music on Thursday. The grade 2's are learning a song, and the grade 3's are learning how to play the recorder. While the other grades are in music, the rest of the kids have math with either Mrs. or Mr. Marta.
* We have finishing every day. We have A LOT of things on our list.
* This week in art we are making a project called "Bats at Night". First we painted a moon and then did darker and darker blue circles around it. The paints we needed to use were white and blue. Then we cut bats out of construction paper to put on the painting.
* We did brain bins every day. One of the brain bins is straw connecters. There are crosses that you connect the straws with to build houses or buildings or towers. There are different toys in each brain bin. We switch our brain bins with Mr. Marta every week. Another brain bin we do is playdough. One of the brain bins we did this week was cars.
* During our morning routine time we can switch the books in our book box. Before we go to reading at Mr. Marta's room we can take a stuffy to read with or a cushion to sit on.
* At lunch we can go to soccer club if we want. It is at David Spencer field. Wendy takes us over to soccer club. One of the teams was called the "Wolfie Pack". Another team was called "Coyotes". Everyone can go to soccer and the intermediates have one game and the primaries have the other game.
* On Wednesday's the grade three students can go to choir at lunch. We are singing "Imagine" and we got a new song "Oh Canada" this week.
* At recess we get to play games. You can play with your friends or join in with the big soccer games.
* This week we did km club on Tuesday and Thursday. We go to Spencer Field. We need to do five laps to get a tally and a sticker. 3 laps is a km.
* At the end of the day we stack our chairs, do our jobs and get ready to go home. Some of the jobs are: floors, cushions, library, board eraser, vacation, chair boss and others.
* This week we had library on Tuesday. We aren't sure if we are going to have library next week because it might be getting painted.
* This is a list of things we can have in our desk: 3 pencils, an eraser, colouring tools, glue stick, scissors, ruler, paper folder, sharpie, pencil sharpener and pencil box.
From,
The amazing students in Mrs. Marta's class
