Thursday February 16, 2023

 Dear awesome families,

This week:

* In gym we played Cat and Mouse, Diamond Tag, Disco Tag and we practiced our dance.

* In STEM we made these really cool buttons that you could pin onto your clothes. Ms. Bell had this machine to make the buttons. The buttons were for Pink Shirt Day. We are going to make bigger ones in our next STEM class.

* Two days ago we started making bookmarks. 

* For Valentine's Day we made bags that had robots on them like Roz. On Valentine's day people put candy, games and cards in the bag.

* Today we finished The Wild Robot. We will read the next book called The Wild Robot Escapes. There was a sad part at the end and Mrs. Marta almost started crying.

* We got two postcards this week. One was from Germany and one was from France.

* In Science we did an experiment to see if candy hearts would dissolve in different liquids. First we checked water, club soda and vinegar. Then we put baking soda in. In the afternoon we tried boiling water and then came up with a bunch of ideas to try other liquids. We tried, Mrs. Marta's cold tea, diet coke, and milk. We also combined some of the liquids. Then we tried to dissolve smarties and chocolate.

* This week we started learning to play chess. This week we just used the pawns. We played with a partner. The goal of the pawn game is that whoever gets the most pawns to the other side wins. When you capture with a pawn, you go one space diagonally. If a pawn is in front of you, you can't move it. Also on Thursday's we get to do chess club at lunch recess.

* We learned the letter m in handwriting this week. We also reviewed the letters we already learned.

We hope you have a great long weekend!

From,

Mrs. Marta's intelligent, caring, delightful, fantastic, awesome, super smart, beautiful, graceful and hard-working students

Friday February 10, 2023

 Dear amazing families,

This week:

* It was L.H.'s birthday. For his birthday gym he chose Dungeon Ball and Zombie Tag. They said happy birthday to him on the announcements. L.H. picked the book Seeing Red for his birthday story.

* This morning we had a dance party. It was our second dance party. One song was "I Like to Move it!". Almost all of us tried to do "the worm". Most of us were in a conga line. Today Mrs. Marta brought her special light for the dance party.

* Every day when we come to school we have to fix some mistakes in our daily schedule.

* For Sporcle this week we got 118 countries! We are trying to get 197. All of them!

* Yesterday we made our Valentine bags. We made them look like robots like Roz. We also added hearts. They are super beautiful. Some of us, when we were finished, made bags for the teachers or students who were absent. L.T. got to make Mrs. Marta's bag for her.

* In Social Studies we are studying the Inuit Culture. We found out they use spears to go fishing and that they live way up North in Canada. They also sew sealskin into some of their clothing. We read a book called Fishing with Grandma and on the first page it told us how to say Grandma in their language -- anaantasiaq. They also showed us how they use sticks to get the ice out to go ice fishing. They use ATV's to travel across the bumpy ground.

We are writing facts about the Inuit on paper, because later we are going to make a book.

* We keep practicing our dance. Mrs. Marta thinks we get better every time. We hope you can come watch us at the assembly at the end of the month.

We hope you have a wonderful day!

From,

Mrs. Marta's super, smart, fantastic, wonderful, sparkling, funny, intelligent, terrific, beautiful, hard-working, spectacular and caring students