Week 11

This week was jam packed with Math and Writing! We have been busy working on getting our book ready for the publisher and building our number sense. Check it out!

Thursday was fun lunch for those of us that ordered it! Yumm, Thank you parent council for organizing this!

On Monday we had a birthday, Happy Birthday J! :)

We continued learning skills in Basketball this week. We practiced dribbling and passing. We also practiced the skill of stealing the ball playing Basketball tag. Ask me how to play!

  

In math this week we learned the greater than, less than and equal to signs in math this week.  Ask me which one is which! To help us remember which way the symbol goes we picture a very, very hungry alligator who wants to always eat the larger numbers!

  

We also learned about how to add "more and less" in the 10's place, 100's place and 1000's place! This was a good exercise to learn about place value and how to quickly add numbers using place value.

We also learned tonnes of ways to represent a number! We came up with about 15 together! Wowza!

We got back our math tests on time this week and our rocks and minerals tests. Miss Kolb and Miss Klem were really impressed! We did pretty good on them! And they also reminded us that the test is not our final mark but just a part of it because every time we are learning about something our teachers are counting that towards our understanding too.

In writing we are nearing the completion of getting our drafts done so that we can send out our book to the publisher on November 23rd. If parents are interested they can purchase a book of their own that you get to take home. The cost is $19.95 CDN and the order forms are due on Tuesday November 21st if you would like one.

 

We had a class meeting about safety this week and talked about the different types of emergencies we can have and specifically talked about what to do in a lockdown situation. We learned about the two different types of lock downs and what our teachers jobs are during those times and what our jobs are. Ask me what my job is during an emergency.

On Mondays Mrs. Gjosund and joins us for health lessons. She taught us about whole body listening this week. We learned how to listen with every part of our bodies like our eyes, ears, mouths, feet, hands, brain and heart. When we listen with our hearts we are able to understand each other better.

Most of us are finished up our natural disaster research and posters and we will be presenting them next week.

In music we have been learning more about beat and rhythm patterns and seeing what 2's, 3's and 4's would look like on the report card. Ms. Gunderson is teaching us about how we can challenge ourselves to do our best in music class.

We had free choice this week, our star system has been working pretty well. Some friends have made some really big improvements from last week and it has been really nice to see some more leaders in the classroom. And people have been doing their new classroom jobs well this week.

Our kindness box is going really well. It has been nice to see so many friends being recognized by friends for showing kind actions and helping out around the classroom, at recess and at lunch. We have decided we are going to come up with an official name for our box, you can vote for them on the blog. Here are the options we have come up with together:

The weather is changing into winter weather, please check what the weather is going to be like every day so you come to school prepared to go outside at recess and lunch! This means, proper coats, snow pants, boots, hats, scarves and mittens!!

There is no school tomorrow, we will see you again on Monday morning!

Enjoy your snowy long weekend!

Until next week,

Love,

Room 7 & 8