February 9, 2018- No snowshoeing today....Boo!

Agenda:

• Read 20 min
• Choose a country you want to represent during our Math Olympics
• Bring in items to decorate your pet rock Monday.  If you don't have one, please bring one from home
• Dress to be in the weather- will try snowshoeing one day next week
• Coffin Cares assembly Monday

The Top Three Things We Learned and Did Today:

• We watched some of the opening ceremonies for the 2018 Winter Olympics.  We watched them to see who we could represent during our Math Olympics and we also kept note of how many athletes they had.  Some had one, while others had over 200.
• We also started to plan what our pet rocks are going to look like.  They have to have two googly eyes, but the rest is our decision.  Mrs. Smith brought her pet rock Aunt Agnes to show the class.
• After our spelling test, we had time to finish any tasks we had not finished, including our Tunisia pictures, inferring journals and math.

What do we have to do next?

We need to bring any accessories we need to dress up our pet rocks, which we will finally create on Monday.  

February 8, 2018- Polar Bears and Skeleton (the Olympic sport that is)

Agenda:

• Read 20 min
• Practice your spelling words, spelling test tomorrow
• Bring in a rock from home that is no bigger than your fist to create a pet rock tomorrow
• Fresh Air Friday tomorrow- will try snowshoeing weather depending
• Coffin Cares assembly Monday

The Top Three Things We Learned and Did Today:

• We had a special visitor today!  Russ from Wendy's after school program came in to talk to us about the sport of skeleton.  He showed us his sled, his gear and we got to try the sled out using a live video of a real track in Germany.  We learned that there are bumpers on the sled to protect you from the walls and there are different levels of competition.  The sport was originally the first sledding sport in the Winter Olympics.
• During Daily 5, we continued to work on making connections with our fantasy books.
• In computer lab, we worked on Raz-Kids, where we listen to a book, then read the book and finally take a quiz.

What do we have to do next?

We need to be put into our Olympic countries before we compete in the Math Winter Olympics.  We will be MATH-LETES!

February 7, 2018- Walking in the science wonderland

Agenda:

• Read 20 min
• Practice your spelling words, spelling test this Friday 
• Yoga residency all this week- wear clothes you can do yoga in
• Bring in a rock from home that is no bigger than your fist to create a pet rock tomorrow
• Coffin Cares assembly Monday

The Top Three Things We Learned and Did Today:

• In science, we were introduced to the pet rock project.  Ms. Jones read a book called Everyone Needs a Rock.  We also came up with ideas of where we find rocks and what we use them for.
• In music, we performed our plays for foley art.  We got to choose a backdrop for our play and Mr. O'Reilly filmed our skits so that he can see if our music beats match the acting.
• The grade 5 and 6 students presented their science fair projects to the school.  Things we learned from their experiments were: the best toothpaste to whiten your teeth is Crest because it has blue covarine, which has a lot of fluoride; Huggies are the best diapers to prevent leaks because they absorb the most water and they take the longest time to leak; watering a plant every five days one tablespoon allowed the best growth of a basil plant.

What do we have to do next?

We need to make sure we have a rock here tomorrow to make our pet rocks.

February 6, 2018- Be a multiplication ninja!

Agenda:

• Read 20 min
• Practice your spelling words, spelling test this Friday 
• Yoga residency all this week- wear clothes you can do yoga in
• Winter walk day tomorrow- dress up to take a walk outside
• Bring in a rock from home that is no bigger than your fist to create a pet rock tomorrow

The Top Three Things We Learned and Did Today:

• In music, we started making a foley (skit).  One to two actors needed to create a scene while the other members of our group made music for the scene.  We were also shown a part from a movie where foley artists were playing louder to make the sound effects.
• In math, we had to practice our multiplication skills, some of us worked on our basic facts while others were practicing their cross multiplication strategy.
• In social studies, we first learned how we are going to be multiplication ninjas.  Then we looked at pictures of Tunisia so that we could make our anthropologist pictures more realistic and less "Canadian."  Then we were given time to work on them.

What do we have to do next?

We have to practice our multiplication tables (3's- 1 times; 4's- 6 times) so that we can do 20 questions in less than two minutes.  We have two weeks to practice. multiplication.com

February 5, 2018- Happy Baby pose and relax!

Agenda:

• Read 20 min
• Practice your spelling words, spelling test this Friday 
• Yoga residency all this week- wear clothes you can do yoga in
• Winter walk day Wednesday- dress up to take a walk outside
• Bring in a rock from home that is no bigger than your fist to create a pet rock

The Top Three Things We Learned and Did Today:

• We had our first class of yoga today.  Our instructor Vivian had the mats set up in a circle to look like the sun.  Three poses we learned were: the hero, the tree pose and the happy baby pose.
• During Daily 5, Ms. Jones read a bit from Harry Potter to show how to make connections while reading.  There are four types of connections: text to text where you compare what you read to another book; text to media where you compare what you read to the internet/ movie; text to world, where you compare what you read to something in the world; and text to self, where you compare something you read to something you have experienced.
• In social studies, we had to think like a person from Tunisia and think about what was in their culture to affect their quality of life.  For example, a place to worship is called a mosque.

What do we have to do next?

In social studies, we have to finish our picture cards to put up on the wall.

February 2, 2018- Throw the Water!

Agenda:

• Read 20 min, practice your spelling words, math textbook work: Group A- pg. 96 #1,2 and 4; Group B- pg. 286 #1-6
• Yoga residency starts next week- wear clothes you can do yoga in.

The Top Three Things We Learned and Did Today:

• We have picked our new words to study for next week's spelling test.  We are to practice at home for our test next Friday.
• Today we went outside with two cups of boiling hot water with food colouring.  Ms. Jones and Mrs. Smith threw the water into the air and we saw that some of the water turned into snow.  The rest of the water turned into coloured slush.  The water turned into snow because the hot water evaporated then froze in the air turning into snow.
• After we came inside, we discussed what happened to the hot water.  We also had to thoroughly clean our hot chocolate mugs, since we had hot chocolate.  We also had time to finish any social centers we had left to do.  If we were done that, we played a math game called Capture Caper with dominos.

What do we have to do next?

Please bring in a rock from home that is no bigger than your fist to create a pet rock with next week.

February 1, 2018- Chocolate rocks!

Agenda:

• Read 20 min, social centers (music and dance, climate and living, Arabic writing, Tunisian Etiquette due tomorrow)
• Report cards envelopes returned asap
• Fresh Air Friday tomorrow- please dress to go outside for a period of time

The Top Three Things We Learned and Did Today:

• During buddies, we helped them get onto Starfall.  We helped them with the letters, g, o and u.
• Today in math, we worked on practicing our multiplication strategies, and in groups A's case multiplying two digit numbers by one digit.  If we finished, we played a domino game called Capture Caper.
• In science, we learned the difference between rocks and minerals using chocolate.  Please ask me the what the difference is.