Friendly February is in full swing! At the end of the month it is Pink Shirt Day, don't forget to find your favourite pink shirt to show off! On Monday we did not have a very successful lunch hour. We are still working on showing respectful behaviour and listening. Mr. Southworth had to come in and have a discussion with us about school expectations. This was a pretty disappointing moment for us as we had spent the entire morning together talking about the difference between rude, mean and bullying and had come up with some really good talking points together. It is clear that we know what our expectations are and now we are to show it more regularly.
This week we worked more on our stories. Most of us are in the final stages of writing. Next week we will hopefully get a chance to start typing them out on the computers and making an illustration plan for our good copies. The stories are turning out really good and using a thesaurus has been a lot of fun and has added some exciting new vocabulary words to our work.
To get better at using the thesaurus we did some word work and did a thesaurus word hunt! Ask me some of the alternative words you can use for "happy" and "sad."
Ms. Engel came in this week during math and gave us some mystery problems to solve. She gave us the answer and we had to find out how many questions you could use to get to that number. Try some of these at home!
_____ - _____ = 7
_____ - _____ = 19
______ - _____ = 41
______ - ______ = 263
Comment some possible questions to the answers in the comments section!
On Tuesday in math we got some word problems to solve. They were similar to the questions we worked on with Ms. Engel in that a lot of the word problems had a ton of different possibilities for answers! Try out this one!
Miss Kolb is having a party at her fabulous apartment. She is inviting teachers, dogs, and snakes to her party. There are 48 legs at her party. What combinations of teachers, dogs and snakes could be at the party?
Today is Valentine's Day. Miss Kolb and Miss Klem brought in brown paper bags, stamps and stickers so we could make ourselves a valentine envelope to keep any notes or cards of kindness in them that we got from friends and travel with them safely home! Our student teacher Ms. Soriano read us a story called "Love" for Valentine's Day.
Next week we have a Pizza Fun Lunch on Wednesday the 21st! You can still place your orders here:
You have until this Friday to order if you would like to have pizza for lunch.
We had ICNR today! This means I got new books from the Village Square Library. Read them with me!
We had a friend bring in a model of the Titanic that he made. It had almost 1000 pieces! He got it for his birthday and shared his hard work with us. It must have taken a lot of dedication and patience to build something so complex!
We did a really cool multi-media art project yesterday! We got to use magazines and book covers. We took words and pictures out of them to create a picture that had positive and kind words on it to display in a mural in the hallway for everyone to see and remember that they are wonderful! It looks incredible!
The weather was positively wonderful on Tuesday. We couldn't believe it! We had the opportunity to earn a bonus recess. We worked hard all day on Tuesday and in the afternoon we got to go outside and enjoy the sunshine!
In gym we have been working on gymnastics skills. We were working on balancing using the benches. We played games like champion challenger and crossover, that one was tricky!
Friendly reminder: There is no school on Thursday, Friday or Monday, we will see your bright and shiny faces again on Tuesday February 20th!
Miss Klem and Miss Kolb will be away on Wednesday the 21st and Thursday the 22nd. They will be at a conference and are expecting that Room 7 & 8 is outstanding for the guest teachers that join them for those two days. Please be helpful and show them how wonderful you all are!
Until next week,
Love,
Room 7 & 8
