T.W.A.S. Shared Writing Post

Dear Families,

This Monday we started swimming!  We went with the Grade 3s from Team 24.  Some people had lots of fun, others didn't.  Cortana said that she couldn't put her face in the water, but she did it TWICE!  We all are proud of her.  Tatum unfortunately did not like her instructor, but Delaney, Seth, and Toby did.  Alec, cody, Dougie, and Madison get to use the diving board and the slide next Monday.  After swimming a bit, some people got moved to different groups.  Dougie and Cody for example, started out in one group but got moved to be with Alec and Madison.  We're waiting for next Monday to go swimming.

Today we have Fun Lunch and there's no daycare.  Earlier this week we started mummifying apples.  We each got half an apple and Mrs. M. wrote our names in Sharpee on them.  We washed them then too out the organs (core and seeds).  We buried them in baking soda and salt.  We are going to leave them in there for a week. On Tuesday we are going to check them out.

We hope you have a great weekend!

From Room 20

T.W.A.S. Shared Writing

Dear Loved Ones,

This week we learned a lot about Ancient Egypt. Yesterday we learned about 3 pharaohs, Cleopatra, Hatshepsut, and Tutankhamun.  Cleopatra was the very last pharaoh of Ancient Egypt.  She kidded herself with an asp.  Hatshepsut was a queen who became the king.  She wore a fake beard.  Tutankhamun was a boy who because king at 11 and died at 20.  When scientists studied his mummy, they discovered that he head showed injuries like he had been hit with a heavy object.  They believe his vizier Ay killed him..  His tomb was made out of gold and it is the most visited tomb today.  We made a "famous Pharaohs" foldable with information about them.

We learned a new Math gamed called "Domino Salute".  The person who was the caller would pick a domino and tell the sum, then cover up one number with their thumb.  The other players had to guess the number they were covering.  Whoever guessed it got a point.  We also learned about multiplication.  Mrs. Deyoe showed us a way to represent multiplication called an Array.  This is how you do it.  For example, if you have 2X5, you would draw 2 dots vertically and then you would draw the other 4 horizontally.  Then it would then give you the answer.  It equals 10.

In Music we learned"Merrily We Roll Along".  We're also doing free play on recorders.  For the Volunteer Tea, we are going to sing about Scallywags.  In Scallywags, we're talking about pirates, astronauts, dinosaurs, and the wild wild west.  We can't wait to perform.  We hope you have a great long weekend.  XOXO

From Room 20

T.W.A.S. Shared Writing

Dear Beloved Families,

This week was an EXCITING week!  Yesterday was LeighAnn's last visit.  We also had our final day of gymnastics.  We wonder what we'll do next.

On Wednesday we made self-portraits from Ancient Egypt.  We learned that the higher a person is on the pyramid of life, the larger they are in art.  This shows how important they are.  Like artisans from Ancient Egypt, we drew the face sideways and the eye facing forward.  The body faces forward s well because they like their art like that.

We learned about the pyramid of life and how slaves held up the society.  Next came the farmers and it continued to the Pharaoh, who was at the top.

We are learning about multiplication.  Multiplication is "groups of".  We used beans and plates to figure out how to multiply Mrs. Deyoe would give us an equation to figure out with our beans and plates.  We're finding multiplication really easy!

That's how our week went.

Love Room 20