Week 28

Ms. V and Ms. N had their last day this Wednesday, we are sad to see them go, they were so nice to have in the classroom. They gave us pencils and erasers just at the right time! We were running super low on pencils!

For gym on Thursday we got to go outside and enjoy the beautiful weather! In the gym with Mr. Collins we have been working on Soccer skills such as juggling, dribbling, shooting, passing and controlling the ball.

  

We did a pulley challenge this week! Ms. V and Ms. N got to see us build our pulleys and help us make them.

    

  

In math we have been working on patterns! We  looked at number patterns this week, ask me to solve this number pattern mystery and tell you the rule! Today we had a Patterns test to see what we know! Yay math!

1, 4, ___, 10, 13, ___

In writing we are learning about fairytales, we asked lots of really good questions about what we wonder about them and we got to research the questions on the computer. Ms. Paull even came in for some of these lessons this week and got to see us learning, it was so cool to have her in the classroom with us! Next week we are going to be munching on delicious and healthy popcorn while we watch The Little Mermaid! Then we are going to read the original tale by Hans Christian Anderson. We will be doing a compare and contrast from the Disney version of the story to the original story. This will be similar to when we read and watched the City of Ember.

  

  

  

  

Room 7 had a Baby Visit with our Roots of Empathy baby this week, she is getting cuter and cuter! Lena has grown two teeth since we saw her last!

We earned free choice this week :)

Swim forms are due MONDAY APRIL 10!!! If you are coming swimming with us you MUST bring in your swim forms MONDAY!!

 

Until next time,

Love,

Room 7 & 8

Week 27

This was a very short week!

We had Parent Teacher Interviews on Wednesday and Thursday, thank you so much for coming parents! It is always so nice to have everybody come into the classroom to see the amazing work we do in room 7/8

On Wednesday we did some art! We used forks, spoons, bubble wrap and our fingers to paint pictures of Spring, they turned out beautifully!

      

  

      

  

      

School is back on April 3!

Have a wonderful Spring Break full of rest, reading, fun and family time, we will miss you!

Love,

Miss Kolb and Klem

Week 26

We got to go outside and enjoy the lovely weather on Wednesday and Thursday! It was very slippery and there were huge puddles! It was hard to resist jumping and admiring the puddles, someone even almost went into one head first! Teachers philosophy on puddles is: "If you're feet get wet that's your fault!"

    

    

Today is a friends birthday! Happy Birthday D! We had a few other birthdays this week, Happy Birthday I and R!

Today is also St. Patrick's Day. St Patrick's Day is a global celebration of Irish culture on or around March 17. It particularly remembers St Patrick.

In gym we have been playing so many fun games. One of them is Silent Simon Says, it's pretty difficult for our class to be SILENT! In gym we also played a sword fighting game, 6 people got a noodle and the people with the noodles had to try to hit people in the leg with them and if you got hit then you had to do either 10 jumping jacks, burpees, or push ups! The other game was called Opposites and it was SUPER hard! If Mr. Collins said GO! you had to STOP! and if he said "go as fast as you can!" we had to go as sllloooowwww as we could! It got very confusing very quickly! Turns out we have a bunch of cheaters in our room that are working on playing fair!

We learned a new thing in math, we started to work on multiplication word problems and continued learning about arrays and multiplication strategies. We also started working on Commutative properties! This caused quite a commotion about spelling and pronunciation in our room! Ask me to show you how to solve this problem using Commutative Properties: 

4 x 3 = 

In math we also learned about time! Ms. N and Ms. V led a cool lesson about the clock with us on Wednesday. 

In science we learned about levers and pulleys. We watched a cool and funny video with a girl that had a kind of funny accent. After spring break we are going to be doing a pulley challenge! You can research pulleys over the spring break. 

    

Eat Well Play Well started this week! To get points for this challenge you need to bring healthy snacks and exercise every night. The class in the school with the most points wins a healthy snack party! Our class is in charge of doing the announcements for the Eat Well Play Well Challenge. It's super fun to get to use the PA system and announce information to the school!

We are learning about brrraaaaaiiiiinnnnssssss in health! There are lobes in our brain. The lobes are the Frontal lobe, Parietal lobe, Occipital lobe, Temporal lobes and the Cerebellum! We are learning about what each of the lobes in our brains do and how they help us to learn and what we can do to keep our brains healthy and happy :) 

Some cool things we learned about our sight is that our eyes see everything upside down and the occipital lobe fixes that for us so we can see everything right side up! 

If you don't wear a helmet or take care of your brain it won't function properly, like if you damage your occipital lobe your sight will begin to have problems or you might not be able to see anymore! 

The brain has 2 halves! The right side of my brain controls the left side of my body and the left side of my brain controls the right side of my body! Its really super cool and complicated! 

The frontal lobe is in charge of your problem solving and personality. Check out this interesting and informative video on the learning brain! 

We earned our free choice back this week! And our Free Writing time. Yay!

Next week is a short week, we have school on Monday and Tuesday and a half day on Wednesday. This is due to parent teacher interviews, make sure you book a time! See you all next week! 

Until next time, 

Love, 

Room 7 & 8