Thursday Sept. 29, 2022

Dear amazing families,

We did a lot of work, even though it was a short week.

This week we got a postcard from Germany from a city called Dusseldorf. We also sent a postcard to someone in Austria which is right beside Germany.

We worked really hard on our bug art. We used pastels to make symmetrical bugs. We also had to think about patterns and colours to finish the project.  Here are our bugs!

This week we ran for Terry Fox, we wrote about him, and we drew pictures about him. He had cancer in his bones and had to have his leg amputated because back then the doctors didn't know how to fix it yet. Even with a prosthetic leg he ran a marathon every day. He had to get up really early in the morning to start. 

We all have a job to do in the classroom. We do the job for a whole week before we switch. Some of us are on cushions. That means you can use it to sit on during the day, and make sure it is put away at the end of the day. You could invite people to sit on the cushion with you.

We also do brain bins. There are toys and games and puzzles we can do. We do brain bins each day when we are done our agendas.

We made our own nametags for our desks and our coat hooks.

Every time we eat snack Mrs. Marta reads us the book The One and Only Ivan. Ivan is a silverback gorilla.

When we have lunch we have lunch monitors in the room.

In music we did some indigenous drumming. We were practicing our songs. This afternoon we are doing drumming with Mr. Bear.

In Stem we built a bridge this week. You could only use one can of playdough and 20 toothpicks. There were piles of books that we put each end of the bridge on.

When we are in the hallway we are super quiet so we don't disturb other classes. When we are on the metal stairs we use marshmallow feet so we are extra quiet.

From,

Mrs. Marta's smart and talented grade 2/3 class