March 22, 2017- Yay it is Spring Break!

Agenda:

Read 30 min

Homework: tipi story planners and sacred bundle journals
Family dance raffle basket donations to be collected March 20- April 5th
School resumes April 3rd

What did we do today?

• In math, group B had adding and subtracting decimal problem to solve.  Group A got six perimetre questions to solve while group C had to measure how many centimetre cubes could fit in their desks and how many soccer balls could fit in a cubic metre.
• This morning in gym was our choice!  We decided we wanted to play King's Gold.  For the last five minutes, we played Fishies in the Sea to celebrate World Water Day.
• After recess, we had project time!  If we had finished our word work, we could do more research on our topics.
• Did you know that all the fish near Garbage Island have at least 5g of plastic inside of them?
• Before lunch, Mrs. Wilkens had changed the rubric for our iMovies so we went through it before planning our videos.
• In music, we practiced a song for our learning celebration.
• At the end of the day, we got to work on Daily 5 activities. Ms. Jones had three activities we had to do before we could work on our projects.

March 21, 2017- From One to Ten

Agenda:

Read 30 min

Homework: practice multiplication facts, word work is one day overdue. Students need to create four new words using the given suffix (two for -oy and two for -ment) using any letters of the alphabet.  They also need to write a sentence for each new word.  Read to Self or work on writing assignment due tomorrow.  Page 162-163 #2,3,5,6 &7 due tomorrow
Tomorrow is World Water Day- please dress in something blue
Treat day tomorrow- bring 25¢
Family dance raffle basket donations to be collected March 20- April 5th
No school Thursday & Fri
School resumes April 3rd

What did we do today?

• In the morning, group A & B measured the perimetres of their shoes and finished their work from yesterday while group C built a life size cubic metre using interlocking cubes.
• In gym, we played prisoner's base.  There were two jails on each side.  If you were hit with a foam ball, you went to one of the jails.  To get back in, you had to hit a player from the other team.
• After recess, we had social studies and we continued to work on our sacred bundle writing.  We also wrote together as a class a paragraph about what a sacred bundle is.
• During Read Aloud, we read a couple of chapters form Wonder.  Auggie met a new friend named Summer during lunch.
• In Daily 5, Ms. Jones put up an order of what activities we had to finish.  We had to work on our tipi writing plan, our timeline picture and our read to self choice before we could do anything else.
• At the end of the day, we continued to work on learning celebration projects.
• Fun fact of the day: Candy wrappers can not be recycled because they have polypropylene.

Questions:

Will Summer still have some of her friends after speaking to Auggie?

March 20, 2017- In my sacred bundle

Agenda:

Read 30 min

Homework: practice multiplication facts, word work due tomorrow. Students need to create four new words using the given suffix (two for -oy and two for -ment).  They also need to write a sentence for each new word.
Treat day tomorrow- bring 25¢
Family dance raffle basket donations to be collected March 20- April 5th
No school Thursday & Fri
School resumes April 3rd

What did we do today?

• Today in math, we started with multiplication ninja Monday.  Ms. Jones is having us use a different site to practice our basic fact skills. We also finished our perimetre work from last week. http://www.multiplication.com/quiz/multiplication-self-correcting-quizzes 
• In gym, we played dodgeball.  It was called Star Wars Dodgeball.  You had to try and knock over the Death Star and it's two moons.  Two students had light sabres to protect their star.
• In social studies, we worked on our sacred bundles write ups.  We had to write what is in our sacred bundle and tell why it is important to us.
• Before lunch, we planned out characters and started a script for our Unthinkable iMovies.
• After lunch in Daily 5, we had to work on a number of assignments, including our social timelines, our personality popper and our sacred bundle writing.
• At the end of the day in art, we continued to work on learning celebration projects.
• Today's presentation teaser:  Africa is the place with no record of using the atlatl.

Questions:
1. Will we be sharing our Unthinkable videos with the class?

March 17, 2017- St. Patricks DehAoine

Agenda:

Read 30 min

Homework: practice multiplication facts, second and third page of tipi planner due Monday
Family dance raffle basket donations to be collected March 20- April 5th
Treat day is Tuesday

What did we do today?

• We started the day with Project dehAoine (jay- HEEN-yeh).  This is the Irish word for Friday.  Some of us have started to print information for our presentations.  Here is a snippet of what you might learn...
• there is a special place in Canada that can actually recycle one use wrappers.
• did you know the buffalo only allowed single white wolves near their herds. You can learn about this on April 13th at our learning celebration.
• After that, we reviewed what a sacred bundle was.  We then went on a vision quest through the school ground to find items that represented the animal kingdom, the plant kingdom and the mineral kingdom.  We brought our items back into our classrooms to create our sacred bundles, which we made from fabric and twine. Traditional sacred bundles are often made of buffalo hide and sinew.

Questions:

1. What was the easiest item to find?

March 16, 2017- Amoeba, chicken, dinosaur, super hero- the evolution of badminton

Agenda:

Read 30 min

Homework: practice multiplication facts, second and third page of tipi planner due tomorrow
Family dance forms due tomorrow
Family dance raffle basket donations to be collected March 20- April 5th

What did we do today?

• At the beginning of the day, we learned about how to measure perimetre.  After measuring each side of a shape, you add the sides together.
• A student brought in an interesting article from the paper about how bison have been in North America for 130 000 years!  They roamed around the same time as the wooly mammoth!
• In gym, we played games of badminton with the nets up.  We had an amoeba court, a chicken court, two dinosaur courts and two superhero courts.  We moved courts depending if we lost or won the game, like in superhero tag.
• After recess in language arts, Ms. Jones read us some of the book Wonder.  After a few chapters, we completed a Personality Popper activity, where we had to choose five personality traits and write how we know they have those traits.
• During Daily 5, many of us chose the listen to reading choice or we worked on our tipi story planners.  
• At the end of the day, we had Project Thursday time!  Some of us brought tri-folds to show our cool and interesting facts.  Speaking of which...
• an owl can turn its head 270º
• did you know there is a fungi that can break down plastic?  You can learn about this "fun guy" on April 13th at our learning celebration. 

Questions:
We were so busy again that we ran out of time!

March 15, 2017- Hannah and the Magic Eye

Agenda:

Read 30 min

Homework: practice multiplication facts, math mystery #19 due tomorrow, science title page, first page of tipi planner due tomorrow
Family dance forms due Friday
Please look for writing journals at home- we are missing 2!
Fraction math quiz sent home today

What did we do today?

• At the beginning of the day, Tyler Enfield visited our school.  He is the author who had written the novels Wrush.  He has written a new book called Hannah and the Magic Eye. It is set in the city of Jerusulem and the characters were being chased by thugs.
• Ms. Jones went over our fraction tests, which is going home today!  Check our backpacks!
• In Wonder, Auggie has decided he wants to go to school and his mother is really worried.
• After recess in gym, we played games of badminton with the nets up.  We played two player vs two player games.  We had to hit it only once to get it over the net.
• We started to work on our iMovies in health.  We have to pick an Unthinkable and make a skit about how to defeat them.
• In language arts, we worked on completing our tipi story planners.
• During Daily 5, many of us chose the listen to reading choice or we worked on our tipi story planners.  
• In music, we played poison rhythm and we had to clap out rhythms.  If we clapped out the "poison" rhythm we were out.

Questions:
We were so busy again that we ran out of time!

March 14, 2017- Tipi sharing with our buddies

Agenda:

Read 30 min

Homework: practice multiplication facts, math worksheet questions due Wednesday, math mystery #19 due Thursday, science title page
Author visit tomorrow morning
Family dance forms due Friday
Please look for writing journals at home- we are missing 3!

What did we do today?

• Today in math, we started our measurement unit by finishing a centimetre and metre scavenger hunt.
• In gym, we played games of badminton with the nets up.  We played two player vs two player games.  
• In buddies, we brought our tipis to the learning commons and we shared our tipi projects.  They asked us questions about how many people lived in them and how we designed and painted so well.
• We got some new ukeleles. We learned how to tune the ukeleles using tuning pegs and listening to the piano.
• During Daily 5, many of us chose the listen to reading choice or we worked on our tipi story planners.  We also ha library exchange at this time.
• At the end of the day we got time to work on our learning celebration projects.
• Did you know that dinosaurs means "terrible lizard?"  To find out more, please clear your calendars April 13th for our learning celebration!

Questions:
We were so busy again that we ran out of time!