Week Fourteen!

In science this week we made tinfoil models and then we made a shadow behind it. We got flashlights and a partner. One person had to hold the flashlight and the other person had to trace the shadow then we coloured the shadows in. It was pretty hard but they turned out great!

  

      

  

      

We explored shadows even more by testing materials with flashlights to find out if they were transparent, opaque, or translucent. We used paper, parchment paper and plastic as materials to test. We turned off all of the lights in the classroom and put the flashlight on our materials to see if the light went through to the wall or not. That's how we could figure out how much light went through and if the materials were transparent, opaque or translucent. Next we got a piece of paper and had to record the definitions of transparent, opaque and translucent as well as our observations during this experiment. 

  

  

  

It was Miss Tan and Miss Smaili's last week with us  :(   They were so generous and gave us new pencils, erasers and mini candy canes! We will miss you, thank you! We made them a beautiful thank you card that we all got to sign and write a nice message.

This week it was SO COLD we had to stay inside allllllll week for recess AND lunch! It was alright though because we got to watch The Lorax, half of How the Grinch Stole Christmas, AND Finding Dory over our lunch breaks. We also got to do lots of movement breaks to shake and dance out our sillies!

   

This Friday we had a candy cane sale - yum! And we earned our free choice Friday :) Lots of students made beautiful pictures for their teachers today that will be proudly hung on the wall for all to see! Wow! We even shared our love for our teachers in our free writing time by writing nice letters to them, it really warmed our teachers hearts!

In gym we started volley ball. We have played games to practice our volley ball skills. One of these games is called Balloon War! We had to get into partners and defeat another pair using balloons and volley ball skills such as bumping, setting, and serving. When you are bumping it is important to NEVER link your fingers together because you might break them!

In math we used ipads to explain how to solve addition problems using the strategies we have learned. The app we used was called "Explain Everything." Ms. Paull even joined us for this lesson and some of us got to explain our thinking to her and show her how to use the app. It was so cool to get to spend time with her in math.

  

     

We got two new students with us this week, we were very welcoming and are happy to have them join us!

We had clubs this week too. In Environmental Club we got cameras and took pictures around the classroom using flashlights to make the pictures much more realistic. Ms. Downing wanted us to make a picture of a leaf that was not hydrated at lots of different angles and zoomed in, you will make it look more interesting.

It was a great week! Until next time,

Love,

Room 7 & 8