Friday April 28, 2023

 Dear fabulous families,

This week:

* In Stem we got to play with tiny Ozobots. We also did some Eid colouring on the iPads.

* In Social Studies we learned about Saskatchewan. The capital city is Regina. Saskatchewan is in between Alberta and Manitoba.

* We got a postcard from New Zealand this week. We also got a postcard from L.S. She is in Japan right now.

* This week in Sporcle we only got 127. Next week we will remember: Romania, Haiti, Monaco, Belgium, St. Kitts and Nevis, Democratic Republic of Congo, Republic of Congo and Tajikistan.

* We had student led conferences this week. Thank you for coming wonderful families to see all of our work! During the conferences there was a book fair in the library.

* Today we read a book called The Idea Jar. At the end of the story Mrs. Marta drew a jar and we put ideas in it that we could use to make stories. Mrs. Marta says they were very inventive and funny. For instance, there was a cookie-eating cat.

* We have been working on a thousand piece puzzle. It is about different places in Canada. We are more than half done!

* Earlier this week we did gymnastics. Now the equipment is down. So this morning we played games. We played zombie tag, jewel thief and diamond tag.

* In art we looked at some indigenous art from BC and from New Zealand. We made art using chalk to draw shapes (that might have just been shapes you like or represented a story). After, we used oil pastels to fill in the empty space. Then we washed all the chalk off (the oil pastels are waterproof and didn't come off). If you want to see them they are in the hallway outside our classroom!

We hope you have a fantastic weekend!

From,

Mrs. Marta's intelligent, super, kind, happy, sparkly, trustworthy, caring, artistic, graceful, smart, silly, amazing, and fantastic students

Friday April 21, 2023

 Dear fantastic families,

This week:

* We have been working on gymnastics. This morning the vault was four sections tall. We had to be very careful when we jumped! LT really wishes there was a trampoline.

* We are on chapter 81 out of 90 chapters of Wild Robot Escapes. HK really wants to tell us what happened... but she won't.

* We have started getting ready for Student Led Conferences. We will see you next week for our conferences on Wednesday or Thursday.

* In music we played some songs and steel tum drums.

* This week we started learning about shapes. First  we learned about 2D shapes (triangle, dodecagon, diamond, etc.) and 3D shapes (cube, rectangular prism, sphere, triangular prism, etc.).

* In Social Studies we learned about Alberta. Did you know in Alberta there is a mall called West Edmonton Mall. They have a waterpark and a carnival inside the mall! Did you know that Mrs. Marta is from Alberta? In Drumheller there is a museum with real dinosaur bones.

* We got a new Sporcle record of 136/197. We beat Mr. Marta's class!

* Yesterday we got a postcard from Hawaii. We watched a video about a big volcano in Hawaii.

* Our student teachers are teaching geometry, and Mrs. Marta calls her math "Marta Math" now.

* There is a book club reading the book Chicken Squad. Mrs. Marta calls them her book squad.

* This week we played with all the pieces in chess. These are the points the pieces are worth: pawn = 1, knight = 3, bishop = 3, rook = 5 and queen = 9. If you get a pawn to the other side it turns into a queen. If you get the other person's king you win the game.

We hope you have a magnificent weekend!

From,

Mrs. Marta's funny, caring, magnificently magical, singing, silly, smart, intelligent, and hard-working students

Friday April 14, 2023

 Dear marvelous families,

This week:

* In gymnastics we added two new stations. One was the bars. The other was the wall mats. There is a station called the springboard. You stay on it and  count to 2, then you jump off. There are three things we are working on in gymnastics: balances, jumps and travelling.

* In STEM we were using Ozobots. It reminds us of Roz from our book. If you put it on a black circle and press the on button for five seconds it will make cute noises. We made little trails for the Ozobots. We had to include an animals food, water, shelter and maybe a danger and the Ozobot followed the path.

* In math we have been working on the next ten and two subtraction strategies. The strategies are called place value and rounding up.

* In Sporcle this week we got 132 points!

* This morning we had a dance party with the special rainbow light. The songs we danced to were "Can't Stop the Feeling" and "Believer".

* We have two new student teachers. Their names are Ms. Sofie and Ms. Melanie.

* This week we got a postcard from South Korea. Ms. Lee who works in our class brought the postcard from her teacher. She visited South Korea on Spring Break.

* In Social Studies this week we learned about British Columbia. We did a sheet where we write facts about it and draw pictures.

* At writing we have been doing "Jazz it up!". This is where you add more details and fancy words to a boring story.

We hope you have a fantastic weekend.

From,

Mrs. Marta's marvelous, popular, trustworthy, hard-working, respectful, funny, magnificent, sparkling, kind, intelligent, and smart students.

Thursday April 6, 2023

 Dear marvelous families,

This week:

* We got a new Sporcle record. This week we named 131 countries! If you don't know what Sporcle is, it is where we try to name all the countries in the world. There are 197 countries altogether.

* During STEM we were playing with little robots. We made paths with markers and the robots would follow the path. If it was blue, red or green the robot would turn that colour when it was on that square.

* In gym we are doing gymnastics for the whole month of April. We started with five stations. One of the stations was a springboard. Another station was a ladder, balance beam and two benches that you could do fire pull or walk on them. In one section there is a big yellow crash mat. There is also a station with a vault where you can jump over it. The last station was mats where you could do cartwheels and log rolls.

* In Social Studies we did a Canada sheet and we learned a lot of things about Canada. For instance, the capital city of Canada is called Ottawa. The leader of Canada is Justin Trudeau. We have a lot of animals in Canada like: polar bears, lynx, snowy owl, beavers, elk, cougars, cats, Arctic foxes, moose, wolves, and dogs.

* In Art we made spring flowers with watercolours. First we used the watercolours to make blobs. Then we painted the stems. Last we outlined with a skinny black sharpie. They are on the bulletin board outside our classroom if you want to see them.

* In music we played games like "Freddy the Frog". We also played Freeze Dance.

* In handwriting we did the letters v and y.

We hope you have a fantastic four day weekend!

From,

Mrs. Marta's good, super, wonderful, smart, funny, magnificent, hard-working, artistic, nice, intelligent, generous, and fabulous students