Hi All,
WHOA. Where did the time go??? I can't believe we're at December 18th!
This won't be a complete post - will try to post later. I'm trying to squeeze in a few bits of information before I forget:
1) PJ Day Friday - we will be attending our annual pancake breakfast on Friday morning
2) Glue sticks - I'm asking the children to bring in another glue stick or two in the new year.. for some reason, our glue stick supply is almost depleted. I haven't figured out where they've all disappeared to but I hope I can get to the bottom of it soon.. it's left me a bit perplexed!
3) Report cards - signed envelopes are due back to school on Thursday.
4) We are still carrying on with academics.. business as usual!
Happy Holidays!
Wednesday, December 19, 2012
Saturday, December 1, 2012
Time is flying!!
Yikes! Where did the time go? Tomorrow is December!!!
It's been a pretty busy few days. We started a new unit on Inferring in language arts. On Wednesday, we took our flashlights to the museum (gym). It was "after hours", but we still wanted to see the artwork of Harris Burdick. I shared with them that Harris had donated these pieces of art and was suppose to bring the stories that went along with them, but he suddenly disappeared. It was our job to come up with our own ideas as to what his illustrations are depicting. The class had great fun walking around the gym looking at the pictures, reading the titles and captions that went along with the pictures. We had a brainstorming session about what each of the pictures meant and I can already tell that we'll be getting some terrific stories out of them.
The grade 3's have pretty much finished their Science Unit on the Solar System. We completed a little booklet of constellations which was great fun and also will be a nice little reference for them in the future.
The grade 4's are still working on Weather. Their weather booklets are due next Friday as they've had plenty of time to complete them. We put together a graph to track the data that we will be collecting with our rain gauges next week and also read (while identifying non-fiction text features and highlighting main ideas) about weather vanes in preparation for making them next week.
Yesterday, a fruit/vegetable tracking sheet should have gone home. The students have been playing "What Am I" to learn more about different fruits/vegetables. We also worked on identifying different different coloured vegetables and fruits.
A heads up:
Christmas concert is being held on December 18th. Our class' theme is "rock and roll". I will be asking the children to brainstorm an easy costume (ie. using things you find around the house or from the dollar store) and getting them to write a paragraph about their costume for homework (why not integrate some writing into it? Just for fun! :) ).
No school Monday - the district is closed in lieu of having Easter during Spring Break!
Alright. This post was begun last night and is still sitting here and it's now Saturday morning. I'm hitting publish! Have a great long weekend!
It's been a pretty busy few days. We started a new unit on Inferring in language arts. On Wednesday, we took our flashlights to the museum (gym). It was "after hours", but we still wanted to see the artwork of Harris Burdick. I shared with them that Harris had donated these pieces of art and was suppose to bring the stories that went along with them, but he suddenly disappeared. It was our job to come up with our own ideas as to what his illustrations are depicting. The class had great fun walking around the gym looking at the pictures, reading the titles and captions that went along with the pictures. We had a brainstorming session about what each of the pictures meant and I can already tell that we'll be getting some terrific stories out of them.
The grade 3's have pretty much finished their Science Unit on the Solar System. We completed a little booklet of constellations which was great fun and also will be a nice little reference for them in the future.
The grade 4's are still working on Weather. Their weather booklets are due next Friday as they've had plenty of time to complete them. We put together a graph to track the data that we will be collecting with our rain gauges next week and also read (while identifying non-fiction text features and highlighting main ideas) about weather vanes in preparation for making them next week.
Yesterday, a fruit/vegetable tracking sheet should have gone home. The students have been playing "What Am I" to learn more about different fruits/vegetables. We also worked on identifying different different coloured vegetables and fruits.
A heads up:
Christmas concert is being held on December 18th. Our class' theme is "rock and roll". I will be asking the children to brainstorm an easy costume (ie. using things you find around the house or from the dollar store) and getting them to write a paragraph about their costume for homework (why not integrate some writing into it? Just for fun! :) ).
No school Monday - the district is closed in lieu of having Easter during Spring Break!
Alright. This post was begun last night and is still sitting here and it's now Saturday morning. I'm hitting publish! Have a great long weekend!
