Friday September 15, 2023

 Dear amazing families,

This week:

* We had a dance party this morning.

* In gym we played Diamond Tag, Museum, Angry Cats, Jewel Thief and Zombie Tag.

* In music we played a game called "Throw and Catch". We also made a little rhythm and then passed beanbags around the circle.

* In reading today we got up to reading for 9 minutes alone. When we read alone we have to be quiet, not play with the reading buddies, stay at our desks and most important we have to read. When we are done reading alone we have some time for reading together.

* Today in math we estimated with some of the builder blocks. We also played some math games this week like 10+ towers. Yesterday we wrote the numbers to 100 in the hundreds chart.

* In Science we watched a video about living and non-living things. Then we filled in a chart to see what things were living and which were nonliving.

* In STEM we did a scavenger hunt. First we read a Gingerbread Man book. Then the Gingerbread Man was running around the whole library. We had to use the clues to find the Gingerbread Man.

* Every morning when we come in we do a morning routine. There is a chart at the front the room to remind us what to do. There are 8 things on the chart!

* This week we got a postcard from Niagara Falls (actually 2 postcards). Mrs. and Mr. Marta went in the summer and brought us back some postcards. Did you know that Niagara Falls is the waterfall in Canada that discharges the most water. It can fill one million bathtubs every minute!

We hope you have a fantastic weekend,

From, 

Mrs. Marta's trustworthy, beautiful, amazing, smart, and special students.

Friday May 26, 2023

Dear incredible families,

This week:

* In gym we played Dungeon Ball, Diamond Tag, Octopus and Zombie Tag.

* In STEM we did Scratch JR. We typed codes and made our little sprite move. We used yellow, blue, purple, red and orange. The different colours make different things happen.

* In Social Studies we learned about New Brunswick and Nova Scotia this week. Nova Scotia means "New Scotland". New Brunswick is the birthplace of the Canadian military.

* In music we learned the cup song from watching a video. It goes like this: clap, clap, ta-ble, ta-ble, clap, up, down.

* We finished our old puzzle and started the new puzzle that Ms. Melanie and Ms. Sofie gave us. It is space themed and has 1000 pieces. There are special pieces in the shape of planets, stars and an astronaut. So far we have finished two 1000 piece puzzles.

* In science we have been talking about water.

Yesterday we learned that 2.1 billion people in the world don't have clean water to drink.

* In math we have been working on division. For example, 20 divided by 4 equals 5. But, 21 divided by 4 equals 5 R. 1. (we just learned about remainders today).

* We got two postcards this week. One was from Nova Scotia and one was from Russia.

We hope you have a fantastic weekend.

From,

Mrs. Marta's funny, incredible, fabulous, respectful, kind, lovely, silly, marvelous, talented, intelligent, trustworthy, musical, hard-working, artistic, fantastic, caring and careful students

Friday May 12, 2023

 Dear amazing families,

This week:

* In gym we played Diamond Tag and Octopus. We also practiced doing track with the batons. We had different coloured teams. To show our teams we wore pinnies.

* We received three postcards this week. One was from Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Today we got two. One was from California and the other was from Virginia. In California their nickname is the Golden State and they also have a Golden Gate Bridge. They had a 7 year long gold rush a long time ago.

* This week we made Mother's Day presents. It is a surprise! You will see it on Sunday.

* In Stem we used iPads to do coding. We used Scratch Jr. Our goal was to move the Scratch Cat to the other side.

* In Sporcle we got a new record. We named 137 countries. We beat our old record by 1! We forgot Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Belgium, Nepal, Laos, and Costa Rica.

* This week learned about Ontario. Ontario has the biggest waterfall in Canada (Niagara Falls). Toronto is the capital of Ontario. Ottawa, which is the capital of Canada is also in Ontario. There is a castle in Toronto called Casa Loma. The population is 14.57 million. When you are in Ontario you can fly a flight simulator. The CN Tower is the tallest building in Canada.

* In Music we played with the boomwhackers. We played the Star Wars Imperial March and It's Corn.

* We celebrated E.Z's pretend birthday this week because her birthday is in July.

We hope you have a splendid weekend!

From,

Mrs. Marta's intelligent, smart, trustworthy, nice, marvelous, kind, hard-working, excellent, fantastic, lovely, amazing, caring and artistic students

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