Dec. 16

 Believe it or not, we are only two days away from our winter break. We have been busy this week doing some winter watercolour and mixed media art, learning about the different kinds of rocks, and learned about where one of our focus countries for this year is (Peru). 

In art, we designed a winter scene using watercolour paint and paper. We first created our sky by allowing different colours to blend into one another on our special watercolour paper. We then used white paper to create a snowy hill and lastly, created ombre stripes for some colourful winter pine trees. When we put them all together, they created a beautiful, calming winter forest masterpiece!

In science, we have learned about two of the three kinds of rocks: sedimentary and metamorphic! We used plasticine to model how these rocks are formed over many years on earth. Tomorrow we will learn about the last type, igneous rocks. Have your child tell you:

• how each rock is formed
• what energy is used to make rocks (heat, pressure etc.)
• where these rocks could be found
  
  
  
  
  
  

In social studies, we have been learning about quality of life and how different wants and needs can impact our quality of life.  We have been using our own lives as a focus for this concept, but will be expanding this into different counties in our world. This year, we will be focussing on 4 different countries: Peru, India, Tunisia, and Ukraine. Today, we used Google Maps to find South America and then Peru and explore the rainforest, mountains and oceans of this country. Your child should be able to name the continent and country we live in as well as the continent that Peru is in. 

Lastly, from Monday, January 4th to Friday, January 8th, schools across our province will be going online. We will once again be using the Google Classroom platform to host classroom meetings and to access the assignments for the week of online learning. Your child has had practice during school logging in into Google Classroom and has practiced assignments and Google Meets. You can find a timetable which includes whole class Google Meets, small groups as well as times I am available for questions or help. We will meet for the first time on January 4 at 9:15 on our Google Meet. Attendance will be taken at our classroom meet at 9:15AM each morning. 

Important Upcoming Dates:

• Friday is the last day before winter break!
• Online Learning - January 4 - 8
• Regular classes resume January 11

We look forward to this week. Please email me if there are questions or concerns.

Dec. 11

 We have finally finished all of our videos to show our knowledge of Animal Life Cycles and adaptations! To celebrate, we are going have a Movie Premiere on Tuesday, Dec. 15. We are going to take the afternoon to watch and enjoy the videos that each of us has made. With this red carpet event, we are inviting students to dress up if they wish and to bring a special second snack that they can eat while we watch them. Once we have watched them, we will post them on Google Classroom for you to watch as a family. 

We are so excited for this special event! Please don't hesitate to contact for me with any questions about this!

Also, your child may have come home with a "metamorphic rock" today. We learned about how metamorphic rocks are made and used plasticine to apply pressure, heat and time to create our own. Ask your child to tell you about this experiment and how metamorphic rocks are formed!

Important Upcoming Events:

Spirit Days - Monday - Ugly Sweater Day; Tuesday - Movie Premier or Christmas Ho-Down - Wear flannel and plaid; Wednesday -  wear red and white; Thursday - wear fun and/or fuzzy socks; Friday - Hawaiian Shirts or Vacation wear

Dec. 18 - Last Day of School before the break

Dec. 19 - Jan 3 - Winter Break

Jan 4 - 8 - Online Learning - No Face to Face Classes. Log on to Google Classroom!

Dec. 10

Welcome back! We were so excited to be together today. Knowing many of us hadn't spent much time outside in the last week, we spent a huge part of the morning outside!  We took a short walk, did a sharing circle and built structures out of snow. We tried to build the different 3D shapes that we learned about during online learning. Students worked in teams to create cones, rectangular prisms, cylinders and of course spheres. Can you find the different shapes in our structures?

We also have some fun spirit days in our school - We have been doing these online, but here is the calendar for the next week that shows them all! 

Important Upcoming Dates:

Last day of school - Dec. 18

Online Learning - Jan 4 - 8