Week 26

We got to go outside and enjoy the lovely weather on Wednesday and Thursday! It was very slippery and there were huge puddles! It was hard to resist jumping and admiring the puddles, someone even almost went into one head first! Teachers philosophy on puddles is: "If you're feet get wet that's your fault!"

    

    

Today is a friends birthday! Happy Birthday D! We had a few other birthdays this week, Happy Birthday I and R!

Today is also St. Patrick's Day. St Patrick's Day is a global celebration of Irish culture on or around March 17. It particularly remembers St Patrick.

In gym we have been playing so many fun games. One of them is Silent Simon Says, it's pretty difficult for our class to be SILENT! In gym we also played a sword fighting game, 6 people got a noodle and the people with the noodles had to try to hit people in the leg with them and if you got hit then you had to do either 10 jumping jacks, burpees, or push ups! The other game was called Opposites and it was SUPER hard! If Mr. Collins said GO! you had to STOP! and if he said "go as fast as you can!" we had to go as sllloooowwww as we could! It got very confusing very quickly! Turns out we have a bunch of cheaters in our room that are working on playing fair!

We learned a new thing in math, we started to work on multiplication word problems and continued learning about arrays and multiplication strategies. We also started working on Commutative properties! This caused quite a commotion about spelling and pronunciation in our room! Ask me to show you how to solve this problem using Commutative Properties: 

4 x 3 = 

In math we also learned about time! Ms. N and Ms. V led a cool lesson about the clock with us on Wednesday. 

In science we learned about levers and pulleys. We watched a cool and funny video with a girl that had a kind of funny accent. After spring break we are going to be doing a pulley challenge! You can research pulleys over the spring break. 

    

Eat Well Play Well started this week! To get points for this challenge you need to bring healthy snacks and exercise every night. The class in the school with the most points wins a healthy snack party! Our class is in charge of doing the announcements for the Eat Well Play Well Challenge. It's super fun to get to use the PA system and announce information to the school!

We are learning about brrraaaaaiiiiinnnnssssss in health! There are lobes in our brain. The lobes are the Frontal lobe, Parietal lobe, Occipital lobe, Temporal lobes and the Cerebellum! We are learning about what each of the lobes in our brains do and how they help us to learn and what we can do to keep our brains healthy and happy :) 

Some cool things we learned about our sight is that our eyes see everything upside down and the occipital lobe fixes that for us so we can see everything right side up! 

If you don't wear a helmet or take care of your brain it won't function properly, like if you damage your occipital lobe your sight will begin to have problems or you might not be able to see anymore! 

The brain has 2 halves! The right side of my brain controls the left side of my body and the left side of my brain controls the right side of my body! Its really super cool and complicated! 

The frontal lobe is in charge of your problem solving and personality. Check out this interesting and informative video on the learning brain! 

We earned our free choice back this week! And our Free Writing time. Yay!

Next week is a short week, we have school on Monday and Tuesday and a half day on Wednesday. This is due to parent teacher interviews, make sure you book a time! See you all next week! 

Until next time, 

Love, 

Room 7 & 8