Friday October 14, 2022

 Dear loving families,

This week:

* We had student nurses visit us. They were showing us how to wash our hands better. They put fake germs on our hands that glow in the dark. Then after we washed our hands they checked if we got all the germs off. Then they gave us a sticker. We also had some colouring sheets to do while they were with us.

* In Art we made a minion of ourselves. It was very funny and cute.

* This week we got a postcard from Niagara Falls and we sent a postcard to San Diego.

* Today we celebrated C.C.'s birthday. In gym she picked the games Museum, Octopus and Angry Cats. At the end of gym we did calm bodies. This afternoon she gets to pick the story we read.

* Every day at snack time Mrs. Marta reads to us. Right now we are reading The One and Only Ivan. We are at the part where Julia and George are going to put Ivan's sign up on the billboard. We think Ruby will get to go to the zoo. (Ruby is baby elephant and Ivan is a Silverback Gorilla)

* In Stem we checked if we poked sharp pencils in a bag of water if the water would stay in or come out. It stayed in. The Stem teacher asked us which bag was more expensive Ziploc or a plastic bag.

* In Music we sang the Hello song. We also met a new teacher (a substitute). We also did Freeze Dance.

* In Science we talked about living and non-living things.

We hope you have a great weekend!

From,

Mrs. Marta's Fantastic Class

Friday Oct. 7 2022

Dear incredible families,

This week:

* We made Salvadore Dali birds with paint. He is a very talented artist who does surrealistic art. Surrealism means not real. The art is not what you expect. Our birds have really long legs. They have feathers, antennae, wings and tails made of interesting things.

* We did some Thanksgiving writing. We wrote about what we are thankful for. We made a bad copy and a good copy, and then we coloured in a Thanksgiving dinner.

* We watched a video about Mojo. He thought he wasn't smart enough for the math questions because they got harder.  At first he argued a bit and didn't want to. Then when he was doing the questions he was exercising his brain. When he was about to leave his friend told him, "You can do this. Don't stop. You will get better." We learned you can do stuff even if it's hard.

* In Gym we played Diamond Tag, Zombie Tag, Skittles, What Time is it Mr. Fox and Evolution.

* In Music we played the indigenous drums. With the drums we had to follow the pattern Mrs. Jones did. The teachers made the drums from scratch. We played the hello song. We also played the "Dollar Song" game.

* This week in Stem we made a flower out of a coffee filter. We put water droplets from and eye dropper on it. It looked like it was growing because it expanded.

Thank you for reading our blog by Mrs. Marta's grade 2/3 class.

Have a great Thanksgiving weekend!

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

 

Our First Post - Thursday Sept. 22, 2022

 Dear fantastic people,

This is our first blog.

This is our classroom. It is so beautiful. The colours are so beautiful. We keep our classroom clean. You could come visit our classroom. 

We are getting postcards from around the world. The first one was from California and had the Golden Gate Bridge on it. The second one came from Oklahoma. It has a dumpy frog on it. We also sent two postcards. One went to the U.S.A. the other one went to Germany.

 We made self portraits.  There are clues underneath about us. We drew ourselves and then a thought bubble that showed what we like.

Thank you for reading our first blog.

From,

Our beautiful class in Mrs. Marta's room

Friday May 6, 2022

 Dear amazing parents,

This week:

* We only did writing two times. We miss having writing.

* In science we have been learning about the water cycle. We put a baggie with water on the window. B.K. thinks the water is going to go down. S.A. thinks the water will make bubbles. N.J. thinks the water will turn green. P.Z. thinks the water will evaporate and we won't have any water on Monday. H.C. thinks the pictures on the bag will get smaller? F.U. thinks the pictures will fade because of the sun.

* Today we are playing Dungeon Ball in gym. Yesterday we did a great job in gym. We were practicing passing the baton. We were such good listeners that Ms. Swim said we could play Dungeon Ball today.

* In reading all the book clubs are on their last section.

* In outdoor ed. we tested our boats in water. We made nature boats out of sticks, string and other nature we found in the courtyard.

* We are on our last week of printing. Mrs. Marta hopes everyone will finish soon!😀

* Ms. Swim has been teaching us math for awhile. We've been learning about measuring. We learned about meters this week. Yesterday and today we practiced measuring the perimeter of objects and shapes.

Good-bye!

From,

The children🙋

Friday April 29

 Dear gorgeous, amazing, awesome parents,

This week:

* We have been doing all of the math with Miss Swim this week. We have been doing measuring. We used a tape measure or a ruler to measure in cm.

* This week in gym we have been working on running. The grade 3 students will get a chance to go to the track meet on May 27. Miss Swim has been teaching us gym this week.

* Ms. Sloboda was working in the office this week. Today in Outdoor Ed. we went to the purple park with Ms. Richter. On the way to the purple park we were admiring plants. 

* In Social Studies we started learning about Manitoba. In Manitoba you can go on boats in the Assiniboine River. You can also swim with beluga whales in the Hudson Bay. You can also go in tundra buggies to see polar bears.

* In music we played the cup song! You do the clap song by: clap clap table table clap up down. (This is the only the first part.)

* In reading we are still having book club meetings. Most book clubs are getting to the end of the books soon.

* We haven't had much writing time this week. It made E.B. say "Waaaaaah". Next week Mrs. Marta will try to make sure we get more writing.

* For recess we go to play in the rock garden and bucket ball area.

From,

Mrs. Marta's dashing, beautiful, wonderful, gorgeous, supreme, smart, super-amazing, spectacular, class.

Friday April 22, 2022

 Dear amazing parents,

This week:

* We had three gyms this week. The first gym was for N.V's birthday gym. The second gym was a bonus gym with Mr. Marta's class. We played Dungeon Ball. Friday we have our regular gym and we are playing "Stores".

* We have been learning about the provinces. So far we have learned about Canada, British Columbia and Alberta. Here is an interesting fact about Alberta: the wild rose is the official flower. West Edmonton Mall has the biggest parking lot in the world! Today we are learning about Saskatchewan.

* In outdoor ed. we made nature boats. The only thing we used that wasn't nature was string. Ms. Sloboda had a wheelbarrow with water in it. First we checked if they could float. Then she made a storm with the hose and we tested if our boats could survive a storm. We pretended one of the rocks in the wheelbarrow was like an iceberg from Titanic.

* This week in km. club we started to go back to Spencer field.

* In math we learned some strategies for 2-digit subtraction. They are place value and rounding up.

* In reading we are all working on a book club! There is Alvin Ho: Allergic to Girls, School and other Scary Things, The Chicken Squad, The Escapades of Clint McCool, and Nate the Great.

* We are prepping for student led conferences. We are excited for you to come see our classroom and our work next Wednesday.

* This week we had soccer club at lunch recess.

From,

The amazing students in Mrs. Marta's class