Jan 5-9

 Welcome back from Winter Break!!

January Important Dates:

January 12 - Kindergarten Registration for families with younger siblings

January 22 - Mr. Pretzel Treat Day / Opa Fun Lunch Day (order at healthyhunger.ca before Jan. 17)

January 30 - Non-Instructional Day - No School

We hope that everyone enjoyed the winter break! We were busy jumping right back into learning this first week back:

News from the students!

- In gym we played Mission Impossible and 5C got to help set up the gym this time for the other grades! And in science we learned about Buoyancy and we will be conducting an experiment on Monday! - Kixton

- We got to go to leadership and science fair meetings this week for students participating. It is coming along well in both! We got to have gym and we got to set up the equipment as well as music where we will be performing a song sometime! It was a great first week back to school! - Lizzie

- We continued doing Literacy Stations and in Social Studies we learned more about ancient civilizations! - Evie

- In Social Studies, we learned about three specific ancient civilizations - Inca, India, and China and the geological features that helped those three civilizations! - Lilly

- In math we continued our work on Math Market and we got to make our own questions! - Evaya

- This week in Math we did pictographs and we did math games and we did Blooket! - Clinton

Math

Monday and Tuesday's math this week continued on with adding and subtracting with decimals, however, we focused primarily on money! The students worked on Market Math, in which they had to use a grocery list to answer and solve word problems. Then they got to create their own market word problems and really used their knowledge to create multi-step problems. On Wednesday and Thursday, students continued working on our Data and Statistics unit. They were most excited to do a review Blooket on graphing and reading different types of graphs. 

We also did some review of multiplication and addition by playing war as a warmup activity. 

Gym was a blast this week with students finishing up their Mission Impossible unit! Check out these action shots: 

In Writing this week, students finished up the stories that we started before the break! It is great to see how their writing is progressing, and we focused on using strong vocabulary and trying to "show not tell" within our writing. Next week we will begin a second story, this time using a picture prompt to get our ideas flowing!

In science we began our focus on Buoyancy and discussed what causes objects to sink and float. Ask your student if they can explain what impacts an objects ability to float. We also learned about the scientific method and will be using this process to conduct an experiment next week...stay tuned!

As always, we enjoyed time outside on Friday for our Daily Physical Activity. It is always wonderful to see the kids working and playing together. We hope you all have a fantastic weekend!!