Happy Friday Families of Room 51!

This week at school we continued working on our STEAM project, creating our paper bag puppet theatres and puppets.  We also started decorating our theatres with paper candies and had to find the total value of the candies we used on our structure.

In Language Arts we added some new words to our vocabulary and had a spelling test on Friday.  We are learning about character and how this includes more than describing the outside of a person or character from a story.  During Daily 5 some us learned about hand signing.

Place Value was the flavor of the week in math.  Grade 1s practiced regrouping with units and rods, while the grade 2s practiced 2-digit addition with regrouping.

Mrs. McBride introduced us to some musical instruments this week in music.  We had so much fun playing drums, sticks, tambourines and triangles and learning some new songs.  In gym the students enjoyed “Island Dodge Ball”, a combination of 2 different Dodge Ball games, using our climbing wall in order to come back to life and go back to an island.

We started “I Wonder”, a passion project where we get to research a topic we are each interested in and write about during the writing portion of our Daily 5 each day.  We went to the library to find books for this project and we will sometimes use the computers to do research as well.

We started a new unit in Social Studies, learning some things about mapping.  Please ask your child what they have learned.

We had some extra help this week in the classroom from Mrs. N and it was Ms. Klein’s birthday.

If you have not already returned the swimming ability form, please do so as soon as possible.

Have a super weekend and stay warm!

Room 51