December 20

We got our math sheets that we did last week. In Writing we continued with our winter writing. We continued with our good copies and we had to use a pen to write with. We had a double periods with our buddies. We played board games with our buddies and some people brought their own board games to play with their buddies. In Art we continued with our tree art and we added a purple background. We outlined red trees with a pencil. Some of us had to start the tree art. Today is early dismissal. We did our blogpost by our selves.

December 13

Today we rehearsed our winter concert songs in the classroom.
In gym we played a Christmas game.
We had music and when we were with the group, we were great!  We practiced some Carols too, that we will be singing.
In French we worked on our script.  We got together with our partner to practice together.  We also worked on the song - Oh Brigitte.  We tried to see how far we could recite the script without help from our partner.
We got to put together our movie trailers for our Properties of Air experiments.
In writing we started editing our misspelled words.  If we were unsure of a word, we wrote it on the white board, then our friends could help us.

December 12

In problem solving, we got a new booklet of practice problems.  We tried to work a little bit ahead of Ms. Pattie so that we were getting the hand of this.
It is very cold today, so all our recesses were indoors.
In writing, everyone shared one paragraph of their winter writing.  We also talked about what our paragraphs should have in them.
In French we worked in our French dictionaries.  We also got our quizzes from last week back.  We area starting the 7th and 8th pages of our scripts.
In Theme we did our air experiments.  We used comic life to present our property of air.
We practiced our songs for the winter concert in class today.  We are getting pretty good, we need to focus on our actions and remembering to start to the left!  As a class we decided that we needed an extra practice on Listen to the Jingle.  So we did an extra run through.

December 9

In Gym we played full court basket ball.  It was the last day for Basket ball.  After gym we had a class conversation about respecting things in the room, just like we want our things to be respected.
Dimetry finished the mural today.  We had an opportunity to go watch him grout the mural.
We had a full hour music rehearsal.
We practiced our songs for the concert.  We are getting better.  We still have to work on not talking!  We also practiced moving on and off the stage in our line order.
In Theme we started a project for the properties of air.   We are in groups of four and we planned what we are going to do and who will bring what.

December 8

In math we continued proving 47x53.
We played basketball and played full court. We played in shifts, 6 on 6.
In Writing we worked on our winter writing paragraphs.
In French we had a vocabulary quiz.  We worked some more in our french dictionaries.
In Theme we watched some videos on properties of air.
Ms. Page came today and played a couple games with us.  Our problem was figuring out how many candy canes 12 elves needed if two elves needed 5.  We also played a game with a table buddy, it was called choosy.
In Music, Mr. Bychuk had some puzzle pages for us.  We listened and practiced our concert songs while we worked.

December 7

Today we had math, we expanded some numbers and multiplied.  We used 47x53 as our base equation.  The answer is 2491.
In Music we were practicing for the winter concert again.  We are sounding better every time we have a practice.
We had library today.  We got to check out books.
In French we worked on our french dictionary.  We used our scripts to help us figure words out.
In writing we continued working on our winter writing.  Most were working on their conclusion.  Some need to catch up still.
We had another session with Dimitry today.  The mosaic will be finished tomorrow.
In theme we made a water cycle wheel.  We coloured and cut them out.  Some people need to finish.

December 6

In gym, we played basket ball as a class, we took shifts of 5 and used the whole gym.
We worked with Dimitry on our Mosaic.  We were filling in sections of the paper with the tile pieces. It is coming along really well.  We are getting close to the end.
Our recesses have been indoors today due to the weather.
In music we had a double class.  We practiced our songs for the winter concert.
We had lunch in our classroom and watched a movie.
In writing, we continued working on our winter writing.  We are up to 4 paragraphs now.  We also looked at writing techniques and checking to see if we used them in our writing.
It is early dismissal today.

For those who didn't make it to school today, work on the next two paragraphs of your winter writing.  Also we have library tomorrow!

December 5

In math we are playing with numbers.  Taking what we know about multiplying and shaking it up a bit.
In gym we played hot seat.  This is a basketball shooting game.  If someone misses they have to stand in a hula hoop.  If the next person misses they take the spot in the hula hoop.
We had a practice for the winter concert.  There are three classes together for our concert. We worked on the song beautiful winter.
In French, we worked on our scripts in groups of three.  We divided the parts up to practice.
In Writing we worked on our winter writing.  We need to have at least two paragraphs done.  Our great introduction and then a paragraph about one activity we like to do.  If we haven't finished we need to take them home to work on.
In Theme we watched a Magic School Bus episode on the Water Cycle.  Then we had to write about what we remembered.  Remembering the order of the steps and using the correct vocabulary.

December 2

In problem solving, we got a new sheet of problems to work on.
Ms. Page came today.  We played a game called Beat the Clock with a partner. She also had a guess the number game.  The number was between 1 and 1000.  She would only answer yes or no.  We had to ask different questions each time.
In French we worked on our scripts in our table groups. We also practiced Oh Brigitte.
We switched desks today.  Ms. Pattie put the new arrangement on the smart board and everyone had to find their own spot.
In theme we continued working on our maps of the explorer's routes.  We marked the vikings, the English and the French explorers.  We also completed a fill in the blank sheet.  After recess we went over them together to make sure we had the right answers.
We had handwriting today.

December 1

In gym, we are learning chest and bounce passing techniques for basketball.  We also played.
In writing we looked at some opening paragraphs, then we discussed what was needed for our next piece of writing.  We started working on our hook.  We will be writing about our favourite winter activities.
In Music we learned a new song for the winter concert - Beautiful Winter.  We are also learning the actions.
In theme we made a poster about one of the explorers and then shared it with the class.   We started shading a map that will be used to mark explorer routes.
We have started using bins to store our things.  This will help keep track of our belongings and ease congestion at the coat area.  We didn't have enough bins for everyone, hopefully the rest will get theirs soon.