TWAS

Hello All,

Phew what a fun week!  It was whirlwind busy and we're all exhausted, but so much fun learning. I'll let the students fill you in; this is what they came up with to share in our weekly TWAS brainstorm this morning:

TWAS

SCIENCE: We filled the kiddie pools with water and floated our recycled material boats and propeller boats (prediction videos are loaded up onto IRIS). We made sailboat art and within it wrote our descriptions of buoyancy.

SOCIAL STUDIES: We rotated through four stations that looked at agriculture, as a resource, in and around Saskatoon. The first station focused on the wool that we get from sheep, and after brainstorming a few facts we learned to weave.  Another station centered around the design/infrastructure of farms and we created model farms out of lego, wooden popsicle sticks, 3D shapes and math manipulative blocks. At the food station we tasted an assortment of foods that come from Saskatchewan farms (wheat crackers, mustard, chick peas, goat and cow cheese, peas, corn and corn chips, bread). At the honeybee station we learned bee facts and created bumble bee puppet shows. Thank you so so so much volunteers who made this fun lesson possible :)

MATH: 51B learned a 10-frame card game (it was lots of fun), shaker math, math toss, egg carton 10-frame math.

51A worked on “big number” math equations using 10s and 1’s to equate fast sums using mental math.  We also rotated through math stations  (math games, math problems and work with teacher). 

As an entire class we worked through some multiplication and division math problems.

Language Arts:  We worked on story writing, using Google slides and Google docs to write out our stories.  We continued to work on passion projects in the work on writing station of Daily 5.  We’re enjoying hearing all about Wilbur his “blood thirsty new friend” Charlotte and that troublesome rat Templeton in Charlotte’s Web.  We also spent some time studying what exactly a sentence is:  "it begins with a capital ends with punctuation, has an action word a subject and conveys a complete thought that makes sense.”

Music: We watched Peter and the Wolf and completed some reflective writing.

Gym:  (Ms. Quilley was at the pool with other classes this week).  We played gassers, planes and taggers, egg/chicken/alligator/giant/ king; silent find; number pair and make ten; a pirate games called “ship shore”; basketball hockey; hula hoop and skipping; over/under/bounce.

Parents please remember to book for student led conferences next week, either Wednesday night or Thursday morning (feel free to contact us if those times don't work and we'll sort out another time).

I also want to send out a special thank you to Mrs. Luca for joining us so seamlessly over the last few weeks and all of the wonderful ideas and care that she brought into the class.  This also means that we can look forward to Ms. Klein joining us again on Monday!

Thank you for all that you do so support your child's learning; have a fantastic weekend and we'll look forward to seeing you next week,

Mrs. McArthur, Mrs. Luca and Ms. Klein