Thursday, December 4, 2014

Tremendous Thursday!

**Art Reach forms went home today. They are due December 8. We will learn from actual artists during this workshop!!

** Caroling Club will be going out on their first event tomorrow. Please ensure the students are dressed warm.

We began the day having art with Mr. Monaghan and physical education with Ms. Lovan.

When students returned, we inquired into the strength of various objects. First we made predictions and decided which object was the strongest and the weakest; we used paper, stir sticks, straws, and cardboard.

 After, we put pennies on each object to see if our predictions were correct. We learned that the paper was the weakest and the cardboard was the strongest.

 In doing this experiment we determined the importance of having a strong foundation for structures.

In math, Ms. Jaskolka read us a story about three students who found 50 cents on the way to school. The students gave the money to the principle who could not find who the money belonged to, so he gave the money back to the students to share. Students needed to think creatively and figure out how the three students could split up the 50 cents in a fair way.

After first recess and lunch, we had French.

Afterwards, we completed unfinished work.

After second recess and lunch, we continued working on our Flat Stanley kite from yesterday. We have been working on the rough copy of our kite. The kite is split into four sections:

1.   We described one character from the book using at least three sentences.  

2.   We illustrated our favourite part of the book.  

3.   We retold the book using First, Next, Then and Last.

4.   We also explained our opinion of the book ensuring to give reasons for our opinion. When we were finished our rough copies we moved on to our good copies. We will continue working on these tomorrow.

Homework:

- Read for 20 minutes 

- Spelling test tomorrow

- Workshop form and money due Dec 10th

- ArtReach forms due Dec 8^th: It will be part of the student's visual arts mark

- Picture and information about a structure due tomorrow

- MMS test Tuesday December 9th

- Return last page of report card with parent comments

- Lunch forms due Dec 12

- Practise Christmas concert script.