Thursday January 26, 2023

Dear beautiful families,

This week:

* We have finished learning our dance, and now we are polishing it. We will keep practicing and present it at the February assembly.

* This week is Literacy week and we have been guessing mystery readers. We also drew a favourite book, character or reading spot on a little circle. Ms. Bell is going to put the whole school's circles on the bulletin board outside the library. This afternoon we are having the read-a-thon. You could read with a buddy, or your siblings, or just read by yourself. Half of the people in our school will go to the gym to read for 30 minutes, and then the other half of the people in our school will go.

* We got postcards from Finland and the United States. We sent postcards to Taiwan, U.S.A. and Japan. We learned that Finland has a lot of Northern Lights. The Northern Lights come from the sun. When the particles pop they make colour. From outer space the northern lights look like a ring around the North Pole and the southern lights look like a ring around the South Pole. In Finland they are also a big fan of the Moomins! We also learned that Taiwan is a really small country but they have a lot of people there.

* In gym we played Zombie Tag, Diamond Tag, Octopus, Angry Cats and Everybody's It.

* In math we are still working on multiplication. We can play the math game "Knock It Off" to practice. The regular ones are 2, 5, and 10. If you want to challenge yourself you can play 3, 4, 6, 7, 8 or 9!

* In handwriting this week we learned the c and the a.

* In music we learned how to play steel tongue drums. We used them to play poison pattern.

* In STEM we listened to the book The Duckling Gets a Cookie?! and made Lego characters from books. After we made one character from a book then we could make anything we wanted (as long as it's appropriate!)

We hope you have a lovely day!

From,

Mrs. Marta's beautiful, creative, interesting, sparkling, delightful, safe, passionate, lovely, and super-awesome students.

Friday January 20, 2023

Dear lovely families,

This week:

*We made some fantastic art. In Asia, lots of countries celebrate Lunar New Year (Japan, China, South Korea, Malaysia and more).This year is the year of the rabbit so we made rabbit lanterns. We used black paper and pastels.

* On Wednesday we made German cookies. We got a postcard from Germany and it had the baking recipe on it. All of us got to come up and either add some stuff or mix up the ingredients. Then we put it in the fridge. Then Mrs. Marta rolled it out flat with the rolling pin and we used a star cookie cutter to make a cookie. Then Mrs. Marta cooked them at lunch time. In the afternoon, we decorated them with chocolate frosting and sprinkles. Then of course, we ate them. They were delicious. But then... something terrible happened... when we went outside someone came in our class and stole Mr. Marta's cookie! Now he is very sad 🙁. Mrs. Marta emailed the recipe home so you can try it at home if you like!

* In Science, we used Chatterpix on the iPads. We took a picture of something and then we made a mouth. We recorded our voices saying the properties of our object (softness, state of matter, smoothness, size, etc.). On Chatterpix it looks like the object is saying the things we recorded ourselves saying. You only have 30 seconds to say your whole thing! Mrs. Marta let us put 3 stickers and one frame on it.

* In gym we played: Angry Cats, Diamond Tag, Zombie Tag, and Octopus. We practiced shooting the basketball into the hoop. We also practiced our dance. We ALMOST know the whole thing now. We will perform it at the February assembly if we are ready (which we probably will be).

* In math we are still working on multiplication. This week we played "Knock it off" with 5X and 2X. You can figure out the answers by skip counting.

* In our book Wild Robot we just finished chapter 45. Roz and Brightbill went to the robot gravesite in chapter 45.

* In STEM Ms. Bell read us a story and then told us to make animals from the Chinese Zodiac out of Lego. If you didn't want to do Lego you could colour one of the animals.

* In music we finished making our pockets for "Canada in my Pocket".

* We got postcards from Germany and South Korea this week.

From, 

Mrs. Marta's amazing, hard-working, beautiful, fantastic, sparkling, talented, unique, respectful, creative, and smart class

Friday January 13, 2023

 Dear amazing families,

This week:

* We started practicing a dance with Mr. Marta's class. When we have learned the whole dance and are really good at it we will perform it at an assembly. We will let you know the date when we know it, so you can come watch if you want. The dance is to the song "Can't Stop the Feeling".

* In math, we started learning about multiplication. In multiplication there are "groups of". For example if you have 5 ice cream cones with 6 scoops each... that is 5 groups of 6... or 5X6 which equals 30.

* In gym (besides dancing) we also played: Zombie Tag, practiced dribbling and shooting the basketball, played Octopus, played Pirate Battle, and played Angry Cats.

* This week in Sporcle we named 88/197 countries. That is our best score yet!

* In science we are learning about matter and the properties of matter. Some of the properties of matter are: if it is' magnetic, the colour, the texture, the size, the shape, if it is soft or hard, and if it is opaque (not see through), translucent (sort of see through) or transparent (see through).

* We learned a very cool word today called triskaidekaphobia. It means when you are afraid of the number 13. The word has 17 letters!

* This week we got a postcard from Germany. The postcard was in German, but we translated it. We also got a postcard from Italy. It was from E.R.'s aunt and uncle. AND we got a postcard from Jordan.

* In music we listened to a song called "Canada in my Pocket". Then we made pockets. We are going to put paper money in the pockets.

* In STEM we used Lego. We made creations with one colour. When we showed it to Miss Bell then we could make something else that didn't have to be one colour.

We hope you have a terrific weekend!

From,

Mrs. Marta's special, creative, talented, sweet, artistic, kind, cool, awesome, smart, hard-working, silly and fabulous students

Friday January 6, 2023

 Dear wonderful families,

This week we:

* In Art we made owls in the African Tribal Art style. We have been doing the project in steps. We are adding a bunch of patterns to it. It is made out of a whole bunch of easy shapes. We outlined with black felt and today we are going to add colour.

* We were going to finish some of our Life Cycle Projects today... BUT... the ipads reset over night and the work is gone. We are hoping that they can restore the work because we don't want to start over.

* This week in STEM we were building Lego structures. First we started with the first letter of our name. Then we could build whatever we wanted.

* This week we got a second postcard from L.S.'s Grandmother in Japan. We also got a postcard from I.S.H.'s student's family that live in Madrid Spain. We also got a postcard from a new country we haven't seen yet... Slovakia.

* In Music we had a teacher named Mr. S. He brought in his electric guitar.

* In gym we played Freeze Dance, Disco Tag, we practiced dribbling basketballs, we played Everyone's It tag. We are going to start practicing a dance.

* Mrs. Marta started reading a book to us called The Wild Robot. It is about a robot that came crashing to an island. The robot is learning about things on the island. The robot was trying to camouflage by covering herself with mud, leaves and flowers. The robot's name was Roz.

* All the grade 3s and the grade 2s that wanted to started handwriting this week. We learned the lowercase e and l.

We hope you have a special and wonderful weekend!

From,

Mrs. Marta's unique and special students.

Friday Dec. 16, 2022

 Dear spectacular families,

This week: 

* We have been doing the countries of the world quiz on sporcle.com . The first time we got 38/197. The second time we got 57/197. Today we got 68 countries! For next time, we are going to try to remember: Singapore, Morocco, Georgia, Samoa, Taiwan, Belgium, South Korea, Cuba. L.T. just randomly called out the country Nigeria. She has no idea how she knew it!

* Today is our last day before the Winter Break. Today is pajama day. We have a movie planned this afternoon and we can bring pillows, blankets, slippers and a stuffy.

* Yesterday we decorated Christmas Trees with candy. There was A LOT of candy!

* Last Tuesday we watched the Naden Band at the Royal Theatre.

* On Tuesday was our dress rehearsal. Wednesday afternoon we had a concert, and Thursday night we had a concert. We sang "Rock and Roll Snowman" and "When the Holidays Come".

* Today we finished our printing books. In January the grade 3s are going to start handwriting. The grade 2s can choose if they want to do handwriting.

* We have been working on our life cycle projects. We started off with papers and books, and now we are putting our information on iPads. Some people did the same animals and other people did a different animal. When we are finished Mrs. Marta puts them on the computer and we watch them together. When ours are finished, Mrs. Marta can send our families a link to see it. Yesterday we started to watch the life cycle projects of people who are finished.

* We didn't get any postcards this week, but we sent one to Japan. If you know anyone who can send us a postcard from somewhere in the world please ask them to send us one!

We hope you have a fantastic, snowtastic, wonderful, fabulous, snowy, spectacular, sparkly, beautiful and delightful winter break.

From,

Mrs. Marta's super grade 2/3 class

Friday December 2, 2022

 Dear fabulous families,

This week:

* We started a life cycle project. You get to choose an animal and do research. Next week we are going to use Book Creator to make books.

* We have been practicing for our winter concert that is in two weeks.

* In Social Studies this week we have been learning about Vietnam. We learned that they make art with eggshells, sand and mud. People in Vietnam ride more motorcycles than cars. People in Vietnam have soup for breakfast every day. There are 97 million people that live in Vietnam. Traditionally, Vietnamese people wear hats that are shaped like a cone.

Some customs in Vietnam are that you can not touch anyone's head and you can't refuse a gift. Another custom is that you also need to pass things to people with two hands. Another custom is that you don't start eating until the oldest person at the table starts eating.

* This week we got five postcards! They are from: Germany, Hong Kong, Spain, U.S.A. and the Netherlands. The one from the Netherlands had 6 mini Christmas Cards in it.

* In Gym today we did stations. The stations were hoops, balls, skipping ropes and scoops.

* In Art we made snowmen and showed what they do at night. Ask me what my snowman was doing!

* This week we did GoNoodle. We really like the Roar! one. We pick it all the time.

* We learned about some different types of sentences. We did some short one word sentences like hi, hello, stop or bonjour. We also did some list sentences. Here is an example: We think you are fantastic, caring, fabulous, sparkling and amazing.

* In Science we learned about things that eat plants and things that eat animals. We learned the words decomposer, producer and consumer. The decomposer was gross. We saw a dung beetle eating poop. 

We hope you have a fabulous day and a special weekend!

From, 

Mrs. Marta's shining, hard-working, fabulous grade 2/3 class

Friday Nov. 25, 2022

 Dear amazing families,

This week:

* We learned about the penguin's life cycle (egg, chick, fledgling and adult penguin) and the frog life cycle (egg, tadpole, froglet, adult frog).

* In science, we learned about metamorphic and non-metamorphic life cycles. Metamorphic means that during the life cycles the animals will change. An example, is the frog life cycle. When it is a tadpole it has a long tail, no legs and is black. When it is an adult frog it is green, has no tail and has four legs. Non-metamorphic means it doesn't change it just grows bigger. An example is a penguin.

* Today we celebrated S.V.'s birthday. He picked a Robert Munsch book for his story. We will have his birthday gym on Monday (the gym is closed today).

* In gym, we played museum, zombie tag, diamond tag, everybody's it tag, evolution and jewel thief. We also practiced throwing at the targets. At the end of gym we do "calm bodies".

* In the classroom we did "GoNoodle". 

* In music, we have been practicing for the winter concert. Did you send in your notice to get your tickets?

* In Social Studies we have been learning about Vietnam's culture. This week we learned about customs, clothing and art.

* For art we made "Reindeer at the Window". The reindeer look like they are trying to get out of the window. You could make them any way you want... they just had to look like reindeer trying to get out the window. We used black, white, brown, blue and red paper. You can see them if you look way up at the window's of our classroom.

* In writing some people have been sharing the books that they have finished. We are also learning some different ways to say words. For example, for scared you could say frightened, terrified, horrified, afraid or spooked. During writing you can write about anything. During the work on write Mrs. Marta meets with us to get our stories to type. We also put strengths and goals in our writing folders.

This week E.B. read a story about Lisa and a tiger. Then Mrs. Marta showed us a picture of her petting a tiger. She was very frightened, petrified and spooked.

* We got postcards from T.N.'s grandpa's cousin in Denmark. We also got a postcard from Taiwan. That is only our second postcard from Asia.

We hope you have a great weekend.

From,

Mrs. Marta's fabulous and incredible grade 2/3 class