Week 12

It was a short week at school for week 12 but that certainly doesn't mean it wasn't full! So much to learn and only so much time!

This week we continued to read "City of Ember" and we got to draw what we think the main characters look like. We figured out that the main characters are Lina, Doon, Poppy, Grandma and the Mayor. We also got to draw what we think the settings look like. It was really neat to see what everyone pictures while Miss Kolb is reading the story.

In gym we played real basketball games! We played 5 on 5. We have some very talented basketball players in our class.

We had Roots of Empathy twice this week. We had a pre-baby visit with our instructors and we learned about babies healthy development. We also had baby visits this week with baby Michael and baby Lena.

In writing we wrote about our weekends and spent the week editing them with all of our new knowledge of what makes a good writing piece.

  

We also did free writing, some of us didn't finish our free writing because our stories are getting so long, detailed and interesting! It is always fun to do free writing!

On Wednesday Ms. Tan and Ms. Smaili came in and read us a story called "Over There" after they finished reading the story we got to write about it. We wrote about the characters and the beginning, middle, end and the setting.

We continued with our guided reading this week. We also started partner reading this week as well.

  

  

In science we made an action plan about how we are going to make responsible decisions about our waste. Our goals are to become less wasteful so we made decisions about what we will do so that we can make the school a better place.

We finished our week off with a peace assembly. To start the assembly the whole school sang "Hello World" a song about peace. It was very cool to see the entire school singing this song about peace and kindness. The advisory group was very important in putting on this assembly, we can even thank two of our very own for being involved, Pary and Aatif, we loved to watch them from the audience! The advisory group will be working hard this year to help make our school a better place. Mr. Southworth read us a story in the assembly called "Be the Change" about Ghandi and how important it is to not be wasteful and to practice peace. Ghandi has said "be the change you wish to see" which means make the world a better place by starting with your own actions.

 

Until next time, peace and love,

Room 7 & 8