We are builders and engineers!

 We have started our building process. We are focusing on making bridges. Today, using lego, we had a first challenge of building a bridge across our paper river. We then had our bridges tested to see if they could hold the weight of Mrs. RA's water bottle. We then built them for a second round with a new requirement. They had to be 10cm tall!!! Ask me how mine did!

We are going to be doing a lot more building challenges. Please start bringing in recyclable materials that we can use in the classroom for our building. (Cardboard, cans etc...)

HATS ON FOR MENTAL HEALTH WEDNESDAY MAY 5TH!

April 29, 2021

We are all so happy to finally be back at school!

This week in writing we had a chance to share some of the amazing Earth day stories that we created while we were at home last week. This week we are starting to take those writing skills to the next level! We learned about the writing process that authors use! Starting next week we are going to actually start the writing process for ourselves with the goal of writing a short story. 

In social studies we have started our Country Research project! We have all chosen a country to study and we are using the computers to learn about that country. When we are done our research we are going to be using our book creator library to write a travel log/journal story about our country. 

In math we have continued working on our division. We have also been working on different types of problems, like word problems or balancing problems, and learning when we need to apply our knowledge of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. 

We are starting our building unit in Science and are going to be having a focus on the different structures and types of bridges.

Playing With Numbers!

 

What is this strange thing that has appeared in our classroom?

Why it's a NUMBER LINE!!!!

Today we were playing with numbers on the number line! We were reviewing number orders, evens vs odds, skip counting, addition, subtraction and even used it to start building our knowledge in division! 

April 16

 What a busy couple of weeks it has been! Now that we are starting to get settled after our lovely spring break, it is time to share some of the exciting things that have been happening in our class!

In math we have wrapped up subtraction for now. We are starting to learn how to tell time and about division! Ask me to show you my new skills with the clock! One of the videos that have been helping us is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6RNkQ7lU8Y  In our visual journals we have also been making clocks and learning how to our knowledge of skip counting by 5's can help us tell the time on the clock! 

We have started our story writing unit!!! We have our own authors books for all of our story writing now. Additionally, we have been learning about the different parts of a story. This week we have started applying our knowledge of stores and have been doing Lego stories! Please try this with me at home!

In word work we have been finding and building words in our word scrambles. We have also started our handwriting unit! So far we have learned how to make the letters A,B,C,D & E in handwriting!

We have also started to include a daily read to self time right after lunch. We were working so hard to today that we also got to have some extra reading time outside in the beautiful sunshine!