December 17, 2018

Welcome to the last week of school before Winter break!

**Please bring in any food bank donations you have!

**Reminder tomorrow is Toque Tuesday, wear your favorite festive toque!

This morning the whole school started their day with some Caroling in the gym!

In writing we practiced our paragraph writing again, we are getting much better.

In math we played "multiplication race" and practiced our 3's, 4's, 6's, 7's, and 9 times tables.

For gym today we played, "rock, paper, scissors" tag and "bench dodgeball."

After lunch Ms. Russell finished "The Tale of Despereaux" and we did a reading response.

We had a movement break outside.

In science today we got to explore different minerals and document their color, luster, streak and hardness use different tests.

We had library and then we finished our day with a daily Calm.

Have a great afternoon,

Ms. Russell

December 10, 2018

Hello Everyone,

**Please remember to bring canned/dry goods for the food drive!!

We went skating today and I fell on my bum!! - Ahmed

In gym today we played rainbow tag and 4 corners soccer. - Selina

We had buddy reading this morning. - William

We learned how to write a paragraph. We started with a topic sentence and then 3 supporting details. Then we combined everything to make a paragraph. - Cody

In science we learned how to tell the difference between gold and fools gold. You can test the hardness and the streak color it makes. Gold will leave a yellow-gold streak and Pyrite (fools gold) will leave a greenish-black streak. - Rouha

Have a great afternoon,

Ms. Russell

December 6, 2018

Happy "Friday!"

**Reminder there is NO SCHOOL for students tomorrow.

**Please bring any canned/dry good donations you have for the Food Bank next week!

**Reminder we have skating next week and permission forms need to be filled out and returned in order for your child to skate.

This morning we did Daily 5 and students rotated through a problem of the day, Epic books, writing using their senses, and Haysboro Typing Club.

In math students worked on assigned work on Mathletics. Feel free to work on this at home over the holidays as well.

After lunch Ms. Russell read some of "The Tale of Despereaux" and then we did a reading response.

We had gym with the grade 5/6's this afternoon and played "Rock, Paper, Scissors relay" and "bench dodgeball."

In social studies we talked about what we have learned so far in our unit. We discussed things like: the rights of children, poverty in other countries, "A Long Walk to Water," "Children Around the World" videos, "The Way to School" story, "On the Way to School" documentary, and "The Breadwinner." We then wrote about our favorite part, what stood out to us the most, and why it is important that we are learning about children around the world. After we watched a short video clip about a boy's daily life in Fiji.

Have a great long weekend!

Ms. Russell

December 5, 2018

Hello Everyone,

**Reminder we are collecting canned and dry goods for the food bank!!

The Winter concert was a success! Great job everyone!!

This morning we learned how to write using our 5 senses (sight, smell, taste, touch, and hearing).

We had a dress rehearsal to prepare for the winter concert.

Ms. Russell read some more of the "Breadwinner." We made predictions about how Parvana's family was going to get food without their father to help them. Some of us predicted right when we said they would dress up as men. Parvana's mom cut her hair and dressed her in boys clothing so she could go to the market and buy them food.

We went outside for gym because the gym was set up for the concert.

We finished our day with a "Calm Meditation."

Have a great afternoon, see you tonight!

Ms. Russell