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!