T.W.A.S. Shared Writing Post

Dear Families,

We learned something new!  We learned about the concept of fractions.  It's new to some people, but for others it's familiar.  Some people find it challenging.  An example is 1/3.  One third is when you have 3 pieces of something and you take 1 away.  We did an activity on the Smartboard where we sorted different shapes and pieces.  We stuck them into two boxes, one said fractions, the other one said whole.  

Yesterday we learned a new Math strategy to add and subtract double-digit numbers.  the strategy is where you take a number sentence like 64-24 and you subtract 20 from the 60, then you take away the 4 from the 4 and your answer is 40.

Next Monday, Mrs. Deyoe is going to be changing our reading groups.  She read with everybody in the class.  You might have some of the same people in your reading group as before or not, but everyone is going to be in a group.  You might be higher than before.

This is how our week is going.  We wish you a happy weekend.

From Room 20

T.W.A.S. Shared Writing post

Dear Room 20 Families,

We had a fun week!  On Monday, we had a guest teacher because Mrs. Deyoe was learning more about Math.  Our guest teacher had a BAHA, which is a Bone Anchor Hearing Aid. When she wants to listen to Music, she goes to her BAHA app on her phone and sends music to it.  She can also control the volume on her phone.  Most people thought it was cool, but others thought it was gross.

On Tuesday, Mrs. Deyoe was back from learning about Math.  She went to learn about Math so she could be a better teacher.  When she was back we started our 100th Day activities.  There was a booklet with activities in it.  Some were on your own and some were with a group.

On Wednesday we built boats!  We built the boats and attached paperclips on them to see if a magnet will make the boat move.  Some people used paper, popsicle sticks, and straws to make their boat.  Today we are testing them in water.

Have a great weekend!

From Room 20 

T.W.A.S Shared writing post

Dear Families,

Happy Valentine's Day on Sunday!  We celebrated Valentine's Day today by having a party.  We are going to be having our party the last 2 periods of the day.  There's going to be lots of cards.

This week we had a busy week.  We learned about magnets.  We learned that if you drop something that is magnetic, a magnet is a quick way to pick it up.  We went around the classroom testing things that we thought or knew were magnetic.  We did an activity that everybody had paper cards and 2 people had magnet cards.  One magnet went to the horseshoe table and 1 magnet went to the mailboxes.  Everybody else had an item.  When Mrs. Deyoe said "attract", if people thought the item was magnetic they would go to a magnet, and if they thought they weren't magnetic they would go to the carpet.  We also watched a video about magnets.  Mrs. Deyoe put up the Theme Studies board on a bulletin board inside our classroom.  It said what magnets do.

We are writing poems for our poetry book.  We started editing and publishing poems.  Everybody's thinking they are great!  Mrs. Deyoe is typing our poems up.  You are only allowed to get 3 poems published, illustrated, and typed up.  Sometimes people make shapes out of their poems and sometimes they make shapes in their poems.  

We started getting lots more table points and higher scores because Mrs. Deyoe has been saying "slean up" and the first table ready gets, 2, 3, or 4 points.  We were taking too long to clean up and now we clean up quicker.

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY TO ALL!

From Room 20

This Week At School (T.W.A.S.) Shared Writing post

Dear Families, 

We had a very "Indian" week! (ha ha ha)  Our week was really busy because we were trying different things they do in India.  One day we were trying lots of foods.  There was chai tea, curry, basmati rice, naan break, mango chutney-which is like a kind of jam, apricots, and dried banana chips.  There was lot of spices.  The next day we made a game called Pachisi!  It's a game from India.  We made it, then played it.  We need four players to play.  It's not like any other board game we've played in Canada.  Plus it's ancient!

This week we were busy because we were doing lots of poetry.  We were reading and writing poems.  Some of the poems were silly.  Mrs. Deyoe made a poem too.

Today we had an assembly and we performed two poems in front of the whole school.  Our first poem was called "Dogs Rule", and our second poem was called "Video Games".  Five people had speaking lines.  The first person was Evan, the second person was Cortana, and then it was Alec, Jaden, and then Madison.  We practiced and practiced our poems.  This is how our week went.

From Room 20

This Week At School (T.W.A.S)-Shared Writing Post

Dear Families,

This week we've been starting stations for Word Study and Math.  In Word Study there is one statin on the iPad, there's on with Scrabble tiles, you can stamp your words in your notebook, etc.  We got a sheet where you colour in the space for the station you've done.  If you do 3 in a row, you get a blue and gold ticket.  We do our Math stations every Day 3.  They are fun!  We do 1 to 2 every class.  The Math stations are kind of like the Word Study stations because we had fun.

This week we had Art class.  We made Asian elephants because we were talking about India.  We made the elephants step-by-step.  We made the wrinkles with white crayon and when we were done, we painted them with water colours.  We set them off to dry.  Some people were having trouble making grey.  When they dipped their paintbrush in the black they watered it a tiny bit, but you're supposed to water it a lot.  It turned out black, but then it dried and turned grey.  They all turned out AMAZING!

The week have been good and fun.  We are looking forward to next week.

From Room 20

T.W.A.S. (This Week at School)-Shared Writing Post

Dear Families,

This week was an exciting week because it was the first week of January!  We started cross-country skiing and it is a lot of fun.  Mr. Sarahs taught us how to tie our boots and put on our skis.  We go cross-country skiing in the field.  We fall a lot but it's still lots of fun.  Mr. Sarahs also taught us how to get up.  We are learning how to jump on our skis too.

We continued measuring in Math.  We were measuring "Where the Wild Things Are" papers and classroom objects.  Our rulers only have millimeters on them, but we cut off the last zero to make it a centimeter.

Mrs. Deyoe started a new thing.  It is called Table Points.  If we get to 25 Table Points, we get an extra period of choice time.  Your table has to be "Checked 5" to get a point.  You can also get a point by working quietly, listening, working together, and having a clean table and floor space.  Table 2 reached 25 points first!  We hope all the tables get 25 points!

Have a good weekend!

From Room 20

This Week at School (T.W.A.S.)-shared writing post

Dear Families,

We had an extraordinarily busy week!  Buddy did some pretty crazy things.  He was hanging on the screen on Monday.  On Tuesday he was up on our word wall.  On Thursday, Buddy slept in the bed that Haylee and Alec made him.  That day was the Winter Concert.  We had a dress rehearsal in the morning.   When we came back from the afternoon concert, he was still sleeping.  He must have been really sleepy!  He left us a note saying he was tired form all his travelling.  Today Buddy was sitting in our mailbox pocket.

This week was our Winter concert.  We had to perform two times, one in the afternoon and one in the evening.  In the afternoon there weren't as many people in the audience as in the evening.  At the evening concert there were snacks-popcorn, penguin pops, and water bottles.  Our Winter Concert went great!

A large box was delivered to our classroom.  No one knew what it was except Mrs Deyoe.  IT WAS A NEW MAILBOX!  Mr. Darr put the new mailboxes together and we replaced our old ones.

We hope you have a great weekend!

From Room 20

P.S. AWESOME week!