Thursday, December 22, 2016

Weekly Update: Dec 19-23 & Holiday Wishes



It's finally here! The last day of school before Christmas break is upon us. I wish everyone a very Merry Christmas & a Happy New Year. I hope you are all safe and get everything you wished for. Image result for christmas tree pictures

The Advent breakfast & Christmas Concert was fabulous this morning. Everyone did a great job singing!









The Candy Cane art from earlier this week:


Friday, December 16, 2016

Weekly Post: Dec 12-16


Updates/Reminders: 
*Homework due Monday
*Library on Tuesday
*Christmas Spirit Week:
Monday: Christmas Characters (ex.Santa), Tuesday: Christmas Best for Church, Wednesday Christmas Sweaters, Thursday Red, White & Green, Friday Pajama Day
*Thursday is the Advent Breakfast at 8:30 followed by the Christmas Concert.

Math: Working on graphing. We explored pictographs and bar graphs this week. We even made some predictions!

Language: The internet gave us some problems trying to complete our biographies so no stressed if your child isn't finished revising & editing. We also focused on finding the main idea in some short stories.



Science: We launched our Egg Protectors with great success!

In Art we started making our Candy Cane collaborations:




Looking forward to a lot of fun next week!!

Monday, December 12, 2016

Weekly Post: December 5-9



Last week was a blur - I forgot to post my weekly update!!

General Reminders:
*Homework due Monday
*No library this week
*Shopping Day on Thursday

Math: We focused on analyzing data. Specifically finding the Range, Mean, Median, and Mode. We took some notes and did some fun activities to reinforce what we learned. See below for our Stacking Cup Challenge.

Language: We started filling in our graphic organizers on our famous/notable people. Students should remember to use the revising and editing skills we have been practicing.

Science: We have been creating our Egg Protectors which will launch on Tuesday!










Tuesday, December 6, 2016

Grammar Website to try!


Try the quizzes on this website with your child for some extra practice!

https://www.eduplace.com/kids/hme/k_5/grammar/#five

Friday, December 2, 2016

Weekly Update: Nov. 28 - Dec. 2


It's the most wonderful month of the year! Happy December!

Can you tell I am excited for Christmas!?

Language: Today we started talking about Biographies. We reviewed a biography written about Thomas Prince. We will take this information to write our own biography about famous/notable people next week.

Math: Today we wrapped up our Geometry Unit and we will begin Data Management next week.

General reminder:
*Monday homework is due
*Tuesday is our library day

Science: We have been talking about FORCE.We learnt about Isaac Newton. Ask your child what a newton is. Next week we will be using spring scales to measure force and start designing some structures.