Week 31

It was another busy week in Room 7 & 8, especially with the Celebration of Learning! We want to send out a big thank you to all of the families that attended to make the night really great! Check it out!

We finished our self portraits for the 40th Anniversary assembly. We did 3D paper art and they turned out very very cool! They will be posted around the gym when we have the assembly along with all of the other classes self portraits, we can't wait to see them!

We had a choir assembly and practiced for the Celebration of Learning on Monday. Then our actual Celebration of Learning was Thursday night. Some of the students from our classroom were in the assembly as MC's, choir singers and handbell players. It was very fun to have guests in our classroom and show off the great work we did around story writing.

It was so fun to have our families come into the classroom to see how hard we have been working and see how much we have been learning about story writing and publishing.

We loved getting feedback from our families and other teachers in the school! This is Mrs. Broadland checking out Brook's Aurasma video for her book.

Even Mr. Southworth came to check out our learning during the Celebration!

Next week is Mental Health Week. We made posters that we are going to have hanging in the hallways around the school to raise awareness about metal health. #GetLoud about mental health!

Next week on Wednesday you can wear a hat all day if you bring in a money or non-perishable food item that will be donated to a charity dedicated to supporting mental health. 

Today we earned free choice. Woo Hoo!

This week we had Roots of Empathy. We switched things up due to Roots and we had Free writing on Tuesday instead of Friday!

We continued to look at fairytales this week. We are studying the difference between the modern versions and traditional versions of Snow White, Cinderella, Rapunzel, and Little Red Riding Hood. A question we have is, "Why do you think fairytales have changed?" We have had some really interesting conversations about how these differences are connected to history and how children and society has changed over time. We are in small groups reading the versions together figuring out the differences as we read. Next we will present our findings to the class.

In math we learned more about the vocabulary around multiplication and division. We learned about the dividend, divisor, quotient, factors, and product. Ask me which word goes with which numbers in a multiplication problem and division problem. We also learned about fact families, this means that you can have 2 multiplication and 2 division questions using just 3 numbers. Ask me to show you!

Just in case you have been wondering Pet Wet is still alive and mostly well with only some evaporation but we make sure to replenish him.

Until next time,

Love,

Room 7 & 8

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