Happy New Year! (January 3, 2017)

Agenda:

Read 30 min

Homework: no math mystery this week, practice multiplication facts

What did we do today?

• At the start of the day, we had a class meeting where we were able to share what we did over the winter break.  Some of us skied, watched movies and a few were sick.
• In gym, we split the gym into two sections.  One half played hockey while the other half played a ringette game.
• In math, we practiced and tested our multiplication ninja skills, since we were not in school on Monday.
• After recess, we made our second timeline picture for Alberta, which is 50-200 million years ago.  We have to include a dinosaur found in Alberta, sand, water and animal/plant remains.  We also found out that the water during this time were becoming more shallow.
• Ms. Jones read a book called Bone Poems.  We also found out that we are born with 270 bones but some of those fuse together as we become an adult, so as a grown up, we will have 206.
• During Daily 5, Ms. Jones introduced how we can start our stories better.  We went over action beginnings, using thoughts and feelings, exclamations and what the character might hear.  Then we worked on choice activities.  
• At the end of the day in science, we were introduced to our new unit, Waste In Our World.  Ms. Cowdy showed us the different types of bins we should be using at the school- compost, paper towel compost, recycling paper and plastic and refundables, which is for juice boxes.

Questions:
1. What book will Ms. Jones read next for read aloud?
2. What drills will we be doing for our volleyball unit?
3. What will we learn about in our Waste in Our World unit?  What do we need to Rethink about   our garbage?