Agenda:
- Read 20 min
- Festive Evening tomorrow night! Starts at 6:00pm.
- Spirit day tomorrow-wear your Christmas spirit! The class that shows the most Christmas spirit wins tickets for next week's draw!
- Homework: Word work activities due tomorrow, spelling test Friday
- Fill a sock campaign starts Monday. Please donate gloves, hats, mitts, socks, underwear, lip balm, mini-hand lotions, travel mugs, deodorant, chocolate and candies, hand warmers, razors, Transit tickets and travel size toiletries
What did we do today?
- In math, we continued our Christmas math centers. Most of finished our rounding activity and are figuring out addition and subtracting to get Santa through a maze.
- In science, we had more time to research information about our chosen animal. We are expected to find the frequencies the species could hear, as well as come up with two interesting facts about their hearing/ ears.
- In gym, we started ringette. First we learned how to pass and spear the ring with a partner. Then we played Clean Your Room and Dodge Ring, which was like dodgeball.
- Tinsel hid up in the ceiling in the vent.
Agenda:
- Read 20 min
- Treat day tomorrow- bring 25¢
- Save the Date: Festive Evening on Thursday
- Spirit day Thursday-wear your Christmas spirit!
- Homework: Word work activities due Thursday, spelling test Friday
- Fill a sock campaign starts Monday. Please donate gloves, hats, mitts, socks, underwear, lip balm, mini-hand lotions, travel mugs, deodorant, chocolate and candies, hand warmers, razors, Transit tickets and travel size toiletries
What did we do today?
- In math, we started our Christmas math centers if we had finished our show what you know from the text. Most of us started the rounding Christmas lights activity, where we had to round numbers into the tens and hundreds.
- In science, we had more time to research information about our chosen animal. Some of us had trouble finding information, so some people had to ask Ms. Cowdy where they could find it. She started to find information and place it in the assignments box to help us.
- In gym, we practiced passing by playing a game of take 3, where the offense had to keep the puck away from the defense. We also practice face offs and shooting at the net.
- In library, we exchanged books and then read to someone to help them understand the story.
- In computer lab, we got another chance to draw a number of Christmas cartoons in our visual journals.
- Tinsel hid in the soap dispenser.
Agenda:
- Read 20 min
- Treat day tomorrow- bring 25¢
- Library tomorrow-bring your books to return or renew
- Save the Date: Festive Evening on Thursday
- Spirit day Thursday-wear your Christmas spirit!
- Homework: Word work activities due Thursday, spelling test Friday
- Fill a sock campaign starts Monday. Please donate gloves, hats, mitts, socks, underwear, lip balm, mini-hand lotions, travel mugs, deodorant, chocolate and candies, hand warmers, razors, Transit tickets and travel size toiletries
What did we do today?
- In art, we went to a website called cartooning4kids, where we learned how to draw Frosty the Snowman.
- In music today, we practiced our song for the Festive Evening performance. Remember to practice your verse!
- In gym, we practiced passing the puck to each other through different drills and games.
- During journals. we continued to work on our WOW #10 prompt from last week. We needed to make sure with each reason we included two supporting details.
- In math, Ms. Jones and Ms. Cowdy showed us the Christmas centers we will be doing over the next two weeks. They will cover concepts such as rounding, adding, subtracting and fractions.
- We did the big pick up as well, since we were not here Friday.
- Tinsel hid in the art bins today.
Agenda:
- Read 20 min
- Save the Date: Festive Evening on December 13th
- No school tomorrow- PD day
- Fill a sock campaign starts Monday. Please donate gloves, hats, mitts, socks, underwear, lip balm, mini-hand lotions, travel mugs, deodorant, chocolate and candies, hand warmers, razors, Transit tickets and travel size toiletries
What did we do today?
- in social studies, we watched two videos about natural resources and fossil fuels. We learned the three fossil fuels are coal, oil and natural gas. These can produce environmental issues such as smog and health issues like asthma. Fossil fuels are the most dominant source the world uses for power.
- In gym, we had a snowball fight! As part of our spirit day, we played four rounds. If we got hit by a snowball we had to do jumping jacks while singing jingle bells.
- In computer lab, we did dance mat typing.
- In math, we finished our showing what we know task about adding and subtraction.
- Tinsel hid in the curtain covering our class "window."
Agenda:
- Read 20 min
- Spirit day tomorrow! Wear your clean pjs to school for pajama day!
- Festive Evening invite sent home today- on December 13th
- No school Friday- PD day
What did we do today?
- In music, we practiced our song for the Festive Evening next week. Our homework is to practice our given verses.
- Today in science, we learned how to make our three word jot notes into sentences using our own words. Then we got the opportunity to try making jot notes for ourselves while researching our own animal.
- In journals, we talked about how to write the response to the question "What if you were chosen to receive the first gift of Christmas."
- We did Raz-Kids during computer lab. We also changed our passwords to make our accounts safer.
- In gym, we played two games to practice stick handling. We played Recycle and Shark.
- Tinsel hid by the door in a folder box.
Agenda:
- Read 20 min
- Spirit day Thursday December 6- pj day!
- Festive Evening invite sent home today- on December 13th
What did we do today?
- In science, we talked about how to make jot notes and how to identify the main idea and its supporting details when reading from books.
- In gym, we did some more hockey drills. Our substitute had us practicing our dribbling skills, a trap contest and we played a game called hockey hoopla.
- Today in math, we started a unit review of adding and subtracting, as we are close to finishing that unit.
- During Daily 5, we worked on a number of tasks. Ms. Jones's guided reading group had to draw four pictures of a character showing different feelings. We also had library at this time.
- We were read more of The Wild Robot. Roz saw a opossum and she thought it was dead, but it was playing dead. The two characters talked about acting and Roz decided she needs to act more friendly.
- During computer lab, we practicing dance mat typing.
- After lunch, we played a brain game where we had to find a partner and remember the order of ten numbers that were drawn from a pile.
- We found Tinsel this afternoon, covered in an avalanche of dried up markers. Hope he finds a more comfortable spot tomorrow.
Agenda:
- Read 20 min
- Spirit day Thursday December 6- pj day!
- Festive Evening invite sent home today- on December 13th
What did we do today?
- In art, we finished our Best Part of Me writing. We made a frame for the writing and the pictures we took and we put them together.
- During language arts, Ms. Jones read us the book, The Polar Express. We were then given our journal prompt for the week which is "If you were picked to choose the first gift of Christmas, what would you choose and why?" We then brainstormed ideas and reasons. We also completed a read to self summary for Daily 5.
- Today in gym we started floor hockey. Using either a ball hockey ball or a felt puck, we practiced stick handling and dribbling. We also played the game follow the leader, where the follower needed to stay close to the leader to earn points.
- In music, we started to practice our song for the festive evening. We were placed into three groups that each have a different part in the song, which is a surprise!
- At the end of the day, the Elf on the Shelf book was read out loud. Now we wait for Tinsel to arrive.
- In math, we started to work on addition and subtraction word problems. Ms. Jones showed us some clue words to help us decide which operation to choose.
- During computer lab, we worked on our Mathletics assignments.
