Friday December 10, 2021

 Dear wonderful parents,

This week we:

* Did finishing. Different people are doing different things like book club or science. It is where you finish up your work. If you don't finish your work you miss brain bins.

* We added 5 new "no excuses" words. They are: said, in, it, and, to. When they go up on to the board you have to spell them right in your own work. You can't make excuses if you don't know how to spell them.

* When we write the teacher is conferencing with some kids. You can only interrupt for three emergencies: throw up, fire and blood. O.S. says everyone has blood. The teacher says it is only an emergency if it is coming out of your body.

* In science we have been working on food webs. You have to draw arrows between the animals to show which animal is giving energy to the other animal. An apex predator is something that nothing eats. An example is an orca.

* In gym we played dungeon ball. The kids played the teachers and guess who won? We are having a rematch today!

* In outdoor ed. today we went to the purple park.

* Every day Mrs. Marta puts mistakes in the daily schedule. We have to find them. An example is that sometimes she spells gym like this: Jim.

* Here is a picture of the penguin art we finished last week:

From,

Mrs. Marta's amazing students

Friday December 3, 2021

Dear amazing families,

This week:

* We made penguin art. We had a paper and we drew swirls with cool and warm colours. We used pastels. The next part was we watched a how-to draw a penguin video and then we drew a penguin. We are gluing the penguin on top of the swirls.

* We also had gym. We had a special gym for H.C.'s birthday. She chose to play octopus. On Monday Mr. Marta was showing us how to throw. We threw beanbags, Eurotech balls and whiffle balls. When we threw them we didn't pick them up at first, by the end there was a big mess... but we cleaned it up. We also have gym this afternoon. We are going to play four corner soccer.

* This week in math we have been finishing our Term 1 math. If we were finished we were playing math games. Some of the math games are: Stack it up +9, Fish for 10, Make 10 concentration and Stack it up + 10.

* We had chess on Monday. We talked about not giving up pieces with more points for pieces for less points... unless we had a plan to get a big piece!

* We watched a video about foods around the world. We could see that food and money are different in different countries. We saw how much each lunch would cost in Canadian dollars.

* We watched The One and Only Ivan movie on Wednesday! The movie was a lot different than the book. One thing different in the movie, was that the animals escaped from the mall but then they went back. And also in the movie Ruby sneezed on Mac.

Also there was no claw stick in the movie. Also in the movie Ivan didn't write "home" at the end. We had a lot of opinions. Some people liked the movie better, some people liked the book better and some people liked them both the same.

* This week B.K. brought in a book that has a story to read each day in December.

* In Kilometer club we have a new path. It is in the front part of the school instead of the field. The field is too wet and muddy.

* This week in outdoor ed. we learned about the life cycle of an oak tree. First it is the acorn, then it goes into the dirt, then a sprout comes out then it grows into a tree.

From,

Mrs. Marta's class of amazing students