Friday March 18, 2022

 Dear fantastic perfect families,

This week:

* Today we have gym. We are celebrating E.B's birthday. His birthday is on Spring Break. He is choosing Dungeon Ball for his birthday game.

* In S.S. we kept working on our Inuit books. Some people are finished and today O.S. shared his book with the class.

* In Science we tried to move an aluminum can with a balloon. We rubbed the balloon on our hair to create static electricity. Then we tried to use the static electricity to make the can move. We had races to see who could make it go fastest. The Cookie Monster team won. (That was H.C. and P.Z.). The "Static Electricity" team (Y.D. and B.K.) were actually fastest, but the Cookie Monster team got moving first.

* We had our first assembly in the gym yesterday. Only the grade 2 and 3 went to our assembly. The grade 5 strings students performed for us. They had cellos, violins and violas. They played Twinkle Twinkle Little Star in peanut butter sticky form (that means ti tis and tas). All of the grade 2 and 3 students sang O Canada at the beginning of the assembly.

* Yesterday we brought our report cards home. Mrs. Marta would like us to return the envelopes to her after Spring Break. Mrs. Marta told us she took HOURS to write them!

* Yesterday we learned about Michelangelo. We had to practice doing art on the bottom of our desks. Michelangelo painted the ceiling in the Sistine Chapel for four years.

* We are very excited because of after gym today it will be Spring Break!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Have a fun Spring Break!

From, 

The awesome students in Mrs. Marta's class.

Friday March 11, 2022

 Dear good parents,

This week:

* We have gym this afternoon. We are going to practice throwing at a target and then play two games.

* In Social Studies we started to make our Inuit books. Everyone has to do at least four pages. B.K. already has 10 pages!!!!!!!!!!

* We have been working on a very hard art this week. It is of the aurora borealis. We have to make an Arctic animal looking at the northern lights. We are using soft oil pastels. They are very hard to blend. We did a rough copy first to practice. Then we are doing a good copy.

* This week we jazzed up a very boring story that Mrs. Marta wrote. The story was about a bunny who needs to find his carrots.

* In math

* In outdoor ed. we learned about animal tracks. We also played a game called "Banana Peel". It had three taggers. When you get caught you stand with your hands over your head like a banana. To get free someone has to gently open your hands.

* H.H. brought in her pennies to show us. She put vinegar on hers at home. They turned very blue and green. Some of the pennies had white stuff on it, but now that is turning light blue and silver. We think hers turned more green because she only put vinegar on one time. The pennies turn green because the oxygen reacts with the copper in the penny. Then it makes blue or green stuff called malachite. The vinegar makes it go faster.

Have a fun weekend!

From,

Mrs. Marta's fantastic, awesome, gorgeous, loving class

Friday March 4, 2022

Dear spectacular parents, 

This week we:

* Are having gym this afternoon. 
We don't know what we will be doing yet...

* In outdoor ed. on Wednesday we learned about scat. We learned about deer, bear, cougar and wolf scat. We saw that different kind of animals have different kinds of scat. On Friday, we had a substitute teacher named Mr. Dhillon. We got to play on the back playground for the whole time!

* This week we have brain bins and our carpet back!!!! At brain bin time we can choose a brain bin or a quiet desk activity.

* In science we did observations of pennies after we put vinegar on them. After one day, the pennies started turning bluish-greenish. When we poured the vinegar some of the pennies got shiny. Some of the pennies turned green, some clean, some got dirty and some turned gold. Some of the pennies, the coating started to come off. 

* On Thursday we did GoNoodle. We did: Run the Red Carpet, Raise the Roof, Little Green Froggy, Cat Party and then to calm down we did Light as a Feather.

* In Social Studies we learned a lot of things about Inuit people living in Nunavut. We learned some games they play. One game is the high-kick. They jump with two feet (7 feet high!) and kick a seal stuffie. Another game they play is the blanket toss. They play because they use this to try to spot whales. Food is very expensive in Nunavut. 10 pouches of Kool-aid is $36.00!!! One lemon was $10.00!!!

* In math this week we started working on "Expanded form" for addition. We did whiteboards and teacher table. It looks like this:

 34

+23

50

+7

57

* In math we learned the game "Ten More Than".

* At lunch time we are reading The Wild Robot Escapes. Before we read this one, we read The Wild Robot. In The Wild Robot Escapes, Roz the Wild Robot is trying to escape from Hilltop Farm.

From,

The amazing students in Mrs. Marta's class