Week 26

We had such a busy week! We had our Celebration of Learning, it was so much fun! Check out some of the photos below!

This week we have continued working on being more mindful. We have been practicing meditation with the help of a bell after lunch time to help bring us back into the green zone and ready for learning. Listen below if you would like to try the bell meditation at home!

In Science/Social Studies we have been watching videos about how kids in India go to school. It turns out that lots of students in India have to get to school in pretty crazy ways. It is very different from how we get to school. They have to walk a long way and sometimes even have to ride in boats! We are learning that a lot of the kids in the videos are wanting to grow up to be teachers.

Our student teacher Ms. Soriano taught us a music lesson. We got to make our own beats and practiced beats using a song called "Shake the Papaya Down"

We did math this week, of course! We love math! Some of us have been working on some pretty complicated word problems with multiple steps and operations. These were some of the ones we worked on, see if you can solve them yourself!

1. At tonight’s Celebration of Learning, Mr. Robinson and Mr. Southworth think that

345, 987 people are going to show up to see all of the magnificent art the students at CJFS have made. Last year, 7621 people came to our celebration of learning. The year before that, 5496 people came. How many more people will be coming to tonight’s celebration?

2. The Scimitar Oryx has been extinct in the wild since 1998, there are about 9000 Scimitar Oryx living in Zoos and protected areas now. If the year is 2018, how many years has this animal been extinct in the wild?

3. There are about 1500 volcanoes in the world. Miss Kolb has climbed 3 of them by age 27. If she wants to climb 81 by the time she is 40 how many more volcanoes does she have to climb? 

*Bonus – how many volcanoes a year would she have to climb to meet her goal?

See if you can write some of your own word problems that maybe we can share with the class!

We had ICNR this week. We got new books from the Village Square Library. As a reminder if you have any Village Square books still at home from last month, please remember to return them! Constable Kim Dispatcher Tara read us three books! They read us, T.L.C., Who Wants a Hug, and Milk Goes to School.

  

At last we have completed our Fables! They really turned out to be so amazing! The illustrations are thoughtful and detailed and the stories are really interesting. They look amazing!

We had buddies this week! We got to share our books with them, it was fun to give them a special sneak preview of our books! They were the very first people besides us to see our books. 

We got to have gym this Friday! Yay! In gym we have been playing mini hockey games, it is so fun to play the great ol' Canadian sport! On Thursday we went outside for gym! It was cold but still fun!

We are almost done the book Wonder... this means that a special surprise is looming!! Stay tuned! There is a second part to the book Wonder where we would get to hear about Julian's perspective, we are hoping to read this before the surprise!

On Thursday we had a "run-through" assembly in the gym. This was an opportunity for the Choirs and Handbells to have a rehearsal for the big night!

We had our Celebration of Learning this week! At last! It has been a busy couple of weeks getting ready to show everyone all the hard work we have been putting into our learning. Parent Council had put on an incredibly delicious looking bake sale! Yummy! The Div 1 and Div 2 choirs performed. They did a great job! The handbells also performed and sounded simply angelic. It took lots of work to get ready and room 7 & 8 knocked it out of the park, along with the whole school! It was such a fun night and it was very evident all the hard work that both the teachers and students put into putting on such a successful night! Wow!

As it was a formal event, the silly staff got all dressed up for the Art Gala!

Ms. Gunderson

It was so nice to see all of the families that attended!

Mr. Southworth showing off his moves on the red carpet!

Teachers and students were having way too much fun!

Next week it is Family Movie Night on Thursday March 22. Come to the school with your family to watch a movie! Thursday is also a half day, and Friday there is no school as Spring Break begins for 1 week.

We earned a bonus recess this week! 

We have a field trip on Monday!!!!! If you have not returned your forms they are OVER DUE! Please send them Monday morning!!!!!!

In April we will be going swimming. This is a friendly reminder to bring in your fees and forms.

Until next week,

Love,

Room 7 & 8

Week 25

This week in gym we started learning about hockey. Mr. Collins bought new goalie pads for the gym we got to try out this week! We learned about a couple different types of "shots" you can take to get goals in hockey, a wrist shot and a slap shot. On Friday we had "free gym" and it was so fun!

In math we have been learning how to have "math talks." Some of the steps for this are to restate, add on, reason, question, and revise our thinking. We also learned a new strategy for addition and have continued to practice subtraction while sharing our thinking with each other using math talk. Ms. Beamer and Ms. Engel joined us for math this week!

With our student teacher Ms. Soriano, who joined us three times this week instead of only once, we read the second book to "Journey" the wordless picture book we read last week. This book is called "Quest." We wrote what we thought would happen at the end and we are working in groups to put on a skit! We were able to take details from all of our stories and add them together. Every one has to have a role so we have been figuring out how to include everyone. It was so fun to incorporate drama into our learning! Some of us are quite the little actors! Wow! We performed our skits on Friday!

Our Celebration of Learning is next week! It will be the evening of Thursday March 15th starting at 6pm and going until 7:30pm. You do not need to stay for the whole evening however if you do come you MUST come with a parent. The idea is to tour the school as a family and celebrate everyone's achievements in art. This celebration will be a little different from our previous years. It will be like coming to a real art gallery! We will be displaying the work we did with our Artist in Residence. The choir will also be performing this night and we will have "buskers" performing talents in the hallways. There will even be a cafe set up in the Learning Commons as well as a Bake Sale put on by Parent Council! It should be a beautiful and tasty night!

Thursday was International Women's Day. We had two girls in our class that were part of a girls research club. They researched some important women and gave presentations to us on Thursday. To get ready for the celebration we wrote artist biographies and artist statements about our work.

It was a friend's birthday on Monday! Happy Birthday I!

We worked on completing our story books this week. We wrote dedications, a synopsis and an about the author page. Our book covers are back from the laminator (and look AMAZING!). We just have our good drafts of our illustrations left to go and we worked on our illustration plans to get ready.

On March 15th our swim forms and fees are DUE back to Miss Kolb and Miss Klem. We will be going swimming on April 16 - 23. Please return the forms so the pool can organize classes.

In music we are starting recorders.

March 19th we are going on a free field trip to the Humane Society, which is an animal shelter. Forms will be handed out on Monday!

We have ICNR next week, if you have any Village Square Library books at home please return them.

There is a club called "Wellness - Warriors" this is a club about caring and kindness.

We added a new "magic deciding jar" to our classroom this week. It is filled with colourful popsicle sticks that have our names on them. If our name gets drawn out of the jar it means its our turn to answer a question.

We also added opportunities for "bonuses" There is the words "bonus" and "no bonus" on the board and a magnet balances back and forth during the day. If we get bonus it means we have been working really hard and have earned an opportunity for a 10 minute activity that is super fun like a dance party, or extra minutes of the lunch movie we are watching, or we get to go outside for an extra recess!

We switched it up this week and did the blog on Thursday because Friday was going to be super busy with performing skits, and having gym and music.

Until next week,

Love,

Room 7 & 8