Friday Feb 25, 2022

 Dear spectacular parents,

This week:

* We had outdoor ed. We played a lot of games. One of the games was "camouflage". Another game was "Fox and Squirrel."

* This week we had a bonus gym on Thursday. We played "Everybody's It" and "Jewel Thief". Today is P.Z.'s birthday gym. He hasn't decided yet what we are doing.

* This week in math we made a graph about fun things to do with your family.

* This week we learned some things about Inuit culture. One thing was that people from Norway paddled over and met with the Inuit 1000 years ago. We also learned that a bowhead whale could feed a whole community for a year. We also saw a video of two Inuit ladies doing throat singing!

Inuit Throat Singing

*In science we learned about physical and chemical changes. One way to tell the difference is a physical change can be undone, and a chemical change can't. An example of a physical change is - when you break a watermelon into little pieces it is still a watermelon. An example of a chemical change is - baking a cake (you can't unbake a cake!).

* We haven't been having book club. But Mrs. Marta hopes we can start it again really soon!

* We have been doing A LOT of writing!

From,

Mrs. Marta's gorgeous class :)

Thursday Feb. 17, 2021

Dear wonderful families,

This week we:

* Are making a kindness board in the hallway. We are making pictures and drawing pictures about being kind. This is what it looks like so far:

 * Worked on our printing and handwriting. The grade 2s are doing printing, and the grade 3s are doing printing and handwriting. The grade 2s can also do handwriting if they want.

* We started Outdoor ed. with "Everybody's It" tag. We went to Oaklands Green. Ms. Sloboda showed us a raccoon nest in a tree.

* In science we did an experiment. We learned what would happen when you put a candy heart in different liquids. The vinegar was the only liquid that didn't dissolve the candy heart (even after a few days). We haven't tried coffee yet. We think it might melt because the coffee is hot. We saw the candy heart in the soda water dissolved really fast and made a lot of bubbles.

* At lunch we started reading the book The Wild Robot Escapes.

* During quiet desk activity a lot of people are making paper people. They are naming them like their own names but a little bit different.

* In math we did a "Valentine's Bar Graph". Eating chocolates had the most votes. Reading cards had zero people choose it.

From,

Mrs. Marta's amazing awesome students

Friday Feb. 11, 2022

To our marvelous parents,

This week we:

* Made chalk art. First we made a city skyline on paper. Then we cut it out and taped it to our paper. Above the skyline we used chalk to make it look like a sunset. To blend the colours we used our finger.

* This week we had 2 birthdays. O.S. and S.A. In S.A.'s gym she chose Dungeon Ball and O.S. chose stores.

* For writing Mrs. Marta made a bad story. (Well it wasn't bad it was just boring!). We helped her fix it by adding more details and used descriptive words. Mrs. Marta calls that "jazzing it up".

* We also made Inukshuk art. First we drew an Inukshuk. Then we used bright colours to make the background. It was in the style of Ted Harrison.

* In Social Studies we are learning about Inuit culture. This week we learned some Inuktitut.  Here is the Inuktitut alphabet song:

Inuktitut Alphabet Song

We also read some stories about Inuit culture. Some animals in the Arctic are: caribou, arctic char, arctic hare, beluga whale and the polar bear.

* Today in gym we are going to practice throwing.

* In math Mrs. Marta called us up to the table to do partitioning. She was pretty impressed with how good we are getting!

* In outdoor ed. we worked on our bird booklet.

* In art today we made Valentine's bags for Monday. They look like robots in honour of "The Wild Robot". If we are bringing Valentines we need to bring them on Monday.

From,

The amazing kids in Mrs. Marta's class.