Friday October 27, 2023

Friday October 27, 2023

Dear incredible families,

This week:

* We had gym. We played "Hot Dog Tag", "Dungeon Ball", and "Plank Tag". We also practiced throwing. We worked on distance and accuracy.

* Today we had our first ever Fantastic Friday. Everybody gets a person's name in the class in the morning. They have to watch them all day (NOT STALKING) and catch them doing nice things. At the end of the day we will give them compliments about things we saw they were doing that are nice.

* This weekend is I.S.H.'s birthday! We will celebrate on Monday. I.S.H. also brought in some cool bird's nests to show us this afternoon.

* In music we did the cup song with a red cup. You do moves in a specific order while you sing a song. This time we did the Monster Mash. We also played Witch's Stew. We put a lot of gross stuff in like eyeballs, spiders, bones, blood, stardust, witch prunes, tentacles and special potions. Then we put Mr. Murray and Mrs. Jones in! We also did a Halloween Line Rider.

* In Stem we built treehouses with cardboard, bottles, tin cans, plastic scraps and paper.

* We learned about how important sleep is. School aged kids should sleep 9-12 hours each night so that their brain gets lots of rest and their body can grow. We learned about the sleep stages (sleep cycle). It's important for your brain to go through all the stages.

* In Science we learned about the puffin life cycle. The stages are: egg, puffling, fledgling and adult.

* In Chess we played with the pawns again, and introduced the bishops. We know how both of those pieces move now.

* In art we watched arthub and learned how to draw a sea turtle. We also coloured them in and brought them home to show our parents. We were trying to make them as realistic as we could.

* We started book club this week. Some people from Mr. Marta's class and some people from our class our doing it. There are four book clubs going right now. If you aren't in a book club yet, you will get a chance later. In book club, your club has to read the same pages from the same book. You also have to write a prediction, six things we're wondering and after we write the summary. The titles of the book are: Swindle, The Last Firehawk, Alvin Ho and Clint McCool.

* In math we started learning about the coins in Canada. After we learned about them, we did a math sheet where we had to match the coins to how much they are worth.

* We also watch the Mojo video #4 about Growth Mindset. We learned that to make your brain grow you need to try challenging things.

* This week we also did GoNoodle. We can try it at home for some fun exercise!

* This morning we had an assembly. We sang the O Canada song and the welcome song. This time there were grade 4 and 5 students as our drum leaders. While they played we could use our hands as drums. We were also going to watch a video but the computer wouldn't connect to the projector.

* We are VERY excited because tonight is the Halloween Dance!!!

We hope you have a spooktastic weekend!

From,

Mrs. Marta's smart, fantastic, amazing, brave, spooky, cool, strong, magnificent, hard-working, victorious, unique, persistent, and graceful superstars.

And... the best class ever!

Friday October 13, 2023

 Dear glorious families,

This week:

* In gym we played Diamond Tag, Zombie Tag and worked on soccer dribbling and passing.

* In music we did a dance called "The Seven Jumps". We also juggled bean bags and scarves. Some people juggled tennis balls.

* In Library we listened to a story called The Legend of Rock, Paper, Scissors. 

* In STEM we designed and started building our tree houses.

* This week we celebrated P.H's birthday. She chose to go to the park for her activity and she chose Chicken Little for her story.

* In Science we learned about the frog life cycle. The stages are: egg, tadpole, froglet and adult frog.

* In Math we learned about adding and subtracting numbers. We also talked about expanded form. Expanded form means you have to stretch the number out. For example: 74 = 70 +4.

* In Writing we learned that once we have finished writing a story we can have it typed and read it to the class. Then we can put it in the student author box.  This week I.S.H. read her story to us called The Giraffe and the Necklace. J.M is going to read us her story this afternoon. S.C-J. is waiting for Mrs. Marta to finish typing hers.

* This week we got a postcard from Disneyland. C.A. in our class was there last week and brought us a postcard. Disneyland is in California, U.S.A.

Have a nice amazing weekend families!

From,

Mrs. Marta's smart, cool, magnificent, fantastic, sweet, trustworthy, fast, super hard-working, beautiful, strong, incredible, nice, active superstars!

Friday October 6, 2023

 Dear amazing magnificent families,

This week:

* We had a dance party this morning because it was Mr. Murray's birthday!

* In gym today we learned a new game called Dungeon Ball. We also played Diamond Tag.

* In music we learned a new dance called "The Turkey Tango". We also learned another dance called Sasha. It is Russian.

* We learned a new math game that you can play with cards. You are trying to get "10".

* This week we got a postcard from Miss Emily. She sent a postcard from Portugal.  Did you know in Nazare, Portugal they have the biggest waves in the world. There are a lot of houses built on really big cliffs towering over the ocean.

* In Stem we were planning out our treehouse. We are going to build the treehouse out of recyclable stuff.

* In Library today we got new little cards to sign out our books.

* We wrote about all the things we are thankful for. We also got to colour a small feast on the page with our writing.

Have a magnificent Thanksgiving weekend!

From,

Mrs. Marta's cool, smart, amazing, intelligent, fun, fantastical, hard-working, pretty, graceful, active, and playful students (AKA the best class ever!)