Friday November 26, 2021

 Dear fantastic parents,

This week:

* We did outdoor ed. We did a scavenger hunt in Oaklands Green in outdoor ed. today. We were looking for nature we could study. We also played "Everybody's It" tag.

* We had gym this week. We played "Disco Tag" yesterday. We also started to learn how to play "Alley Ball" on Monday. In gym on Thursday D.P. showed us her new wheelchair. This chair is special because she can control it with her head. It was amazing! We are also going to do gym this afternoon.

* Mr. Marta read us a story called If Sarah Will Take Me. The story was about a guy who fell off a balcony and hurt his neck. After, he had to go in a special wheelchair because he couldn't use his arms and his legs. He loved art, but he couldn't do it anymore. He wanted to go places but he couldn't get there. His nurse took him to all the places and introduced him to mouth painting. We used markers to draw with our mouth. It was VERY hard. His paintings are amazing!

* We did writing this week. On Monday we had a substitute teacher during writing. Mrs. Marta is doing writing conferences with us and helping us make our new writing goal.

* We have been doing finishing to catch up on our work. If we aren't done our finishing on Monday we will have to work on it during "Brain Bin" time. People who are finished all of their work are helping other people. You aren't supposed to tell them the answers, just help them.

* In chess this week we learned to castle. You move the King and the Rook in the same turn. You are switching their places. After Mr. Churchill teaches us how to play, we get to play chess.

* In art we made "Reindeer at the Window". We made the reindeer out of construction paper. You can see them through the window of our classroom.

* In Social Studies we are learning about culture in Canada. We added arts and customs and food.

* We do reading every day except on Wednesday we do it without Mr. Marta's class.

* Next Wednesday we are going to watch The One and Only Ivan movie with Mr. Marta's class. We are very excited to watch it!

From,

Mrs. Marta's amazing students

Friday November 19, 2021

 Dear awesome families,

This week:

* We did gym. We played soccer and basketball. This afternoon in gym Mr. Marta is going to teach us a game called "Disco Tag".

* In Social Studies we are learning about cultures and customs. We were looking at different classrooms all over the world. Some classrooms don't look like ours. We are also learning about Canada.

* At lunch Mrs. Marta is reading us "The One and Only Bob". Bob is a talking dog. In the book a big storm came. Ivan the gorilla is based on a real gorilla.

* In math we did an addition and subtraction check-in sheet. We had 10 minutes to do as many as we can. On Friday in math we played a game called "Make 10 Concentration". We also did some math sheets this week. The grade 2s had to do a colouring sheet of a parrot that you had to answer math questions to find out which colour to put in. The grade 3s worked on fractions while the grade 2s went to music.

* In music the grade 2s are learning a new song called "In our Yard". The grade 3s are playing two songs on the recorder. They are "Hot Cross Buns" and "Au Claire du lune".

* In writing this week the teacher is having conferences with two kids a day while we silent write to see how we are doing with our writing.

* On Monday's we have chess with Mr. Churchill. Over the last few weeks we have learned all the pieces and what they do. Each time we have chess we talk about one or two pieces. This week we talked about the king.

* We had outdoor ed. on Wednesday and Friday. We played everybody's it tag today. On Wednesday we started our self reflections.

* We finished our Remembrance Day project this week. It had poppy art. We also had to write a poem about Remembrance Day and the war. We didn't do a rhyming poem, we did a free verse poem. It was about the soldiers who died.

From,

Mrs. Marta's magnificent class

Friday November 5, 2021

 Dear awesome amazing cool parents,

This week:

* We did outdoor ed. We had a substitute teacher called Mr. Lyster. We did a scavenger hunt. We were looking for different colours of leaves, pinecones, moss and other nature stuff. We were looking for evidence of Fall.

* We had gym. Today we are playing Treasure Island. On Monday we played Vampire and Ghouls Tic-Tac-Toe.

* We have writing every day. First we do planning, then we do silent write, and then work on write. This week we made a sticky note goal. We had to pick something to work on in our writing. One example is, putting periods at the end of sentences. Another goal could be to leave spaces between words.

* In math we get new sheets every week. We had to go to the teacher table to work on whiteboards. We were working on breaking up numbers into expanded form. For example, 80 + 4 = 84.

We also might do 75 = 70 + 5. You can do the equal sign at the beginning or the end.

* In science we are studying herbivores, carnivores and omnivores. We are also studying about decomposers, producers and consumers. A fox is a carnivore. We were surprised a hippopotamus is a herbivore because it is so big. We didn't know all the answers so we learned some from "Professor Google"!

* In music the grade 2s sang songs. One of them was "Purple People-Eater". The grade 3s got their recorders. They were playing "Hot Cross Buns".

* The grade 3s in choir were recorded singing "O Canada" and "Imagine" for the Remembrance Day assembly.

* We did GoNoodle this week. We did "Bones" and we did "Pop See Ko".

From,

Mrs. Marta's amazing class