Friday January 28, 2022

 Dear wonderful families,

This week:

* In math we got to level 4 of partitioning. We also did a super-infinity-mega-hard challenge question 2 times!

* Today in gym we are going to do "Stores". We voted what we would do. It was a close call between Dungeon Ball and Stores... but Stores won.

* We have still been doing Quiet Desk Activity instead of Brain Bins.

* In Music we used ribbons to do actions.

* In Science we talked about Properties of Matter. Some properties of matter are: state (solid, liquid or gas), does it dissolve in liquid, size, length, weight, colour, shape, and volume. We used the iPads to make a Chatterkids video about the properties of an object. We wrote a script, took a picture of the object, recorded a voice message and then put stickers on it.

* We are still reading The Wild Robot at lunch time. In the story the robot, Roz, loses her leg. Mrs. Marta dressed up as Roz today!

* In Social Studies we started talking about the Inuit Culture. We started by making a list of all the things we want to know. The list of questions is VERY VERY BIG!

* In writing we are thinking of descriptive words. For example, for the word "big" we came up with: gigantic, humongous, mega, and huge. For the word good we came up with: spectacular, marvelous, and splendid. Today we are doing "mad". O.L. already suggested we put "fed up".

* In Outdoor Ed. we found a sit spot. We just relaxed and sat and listened to nature. No talking!

* Today was "Dress up as your favourite book character." At recess, if you were dressed up you could go take a group photo in the courtyard.

From,

Mrs. Marta's amazing class

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Friday January 21, 2022

 Dear families,

This week:

* We did math. In math we got new sheets to work on. We practiced partitioning. We have two numbers. We stack them up... then we break them into parts. Then we put them back together again. We also talked about the doubles facts. The grade 3's had sheets with times (multiplication).

* Today we are having gym. We are going to play Dungeon Ball.

* This week we finished our Vietnamese Lantern Art. Here is a photo of it on our bulletin board in the classroom:

* In Outdoor ed. we learned about birds. We worked on our own booklet about birds that we are going to bring home (maybe in a few days). The author is our own selves.

* In Social Studies we did a sheet comparing Vietnam and Canada. We had to write 4 things: what is the same about Canada and Vietnam, what is different about Canada and Vietnam, what do you still wonder about Vietnam, and what is interesting about Vietnam.

* In science we talked about properties of matter. Some properties of matter are: state (solid, liquid, gas), size, does it float or sink, if it dissolves in water, shape, colour, weight, if it's magnetic and the heating and cooling point.

* Every day instead of Brain Bins we do Quiet Desk Activity. Some people at Quiet Desk Activity have to do their math (or finishing).

* In music we watched a video about a Viennese musical clock.

From,

Mrs. Marta's Amazing Class

Friday January 14, 2022

 Dear super amazing families,

This week we:

* For art we drew Vietnamese silk lanterns. First we made a plan. Then we made the art. We could choose to use pastels, paints or markers.

* We are doing gym this afternoon. It is S.W.'s birthday gym and she is choosing Octopus Tag.

* This week instead of brain bins we did a quiet desk activity. We could draw, colour, play a card game by ourselves, making a craft or doing a word search.

* At recess we have a special area where we have to play. This week we played in the rock garden and bucketball area.

* This week we started reading The Wild Robot at lunch time.

* This week we are reading in our own classroom not with Mr. Marta.

* This week it is pizza day. Pizza day is very fun for our class because it is very yummy and delicious.

* In science we are learning about solids, liquids and gases. 

* This week in finishing we did math.

* In social studies we learned about Vietnamese culture. One interesting this is that the government doesn't allow them to have religion. Sometimes in Vietnam they cook outside instead of inside. We also watched a video that showed their roads are very busy and they don't have any crosswalks. We also saw people selling things on the roads.

* In math we got new sheets to work on. We learned two new card games called "Tens" and "10, 20, 30". You can play these games with a deck of cards by yourself. We also worked on partitioning (adding big numbers).

* In Word Work we had to practice our no excuses words three times.

* Today at outdoor ed. we were learning about fungus and fungi and mushrooms that grow on trees. On two trees there was fungus that can kill the trees. It was taking all the good things out of the tree. It is not good for them. The trees cannot survive.

* In music we played music bingo. Mrs. Poulsen would tell us the symbols of the music pattern and we would have to find it on the bingo card.

From,

Mrs. Marta's amazing super fantastic students