Room 16

Today we had our Pillars of Care assembly. Congratulations to this months recipients. Our school raised over $400 for Movember! That meant that Mr. Lancee and myself had to follow through with our promise. Ask your child about the performance! Following the assembly students did some word work. We will have our spelling quizzes on Monday. We continued to work on our plan for our Hero's Journey story. Students worked to finish their Trail as well as their Crisis.  Our class also started a new art project, had PE, and did some work on Mathletics. 

It's a chilly winter wonderland out there! Hopefully everyone got home safe. Today in writing we worked on our Hero's Journey plan. We first watched the Call to Action from Harry Potter and Star Wars as an exemplar. You can watch the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfaTcTeJZNY Students then planned their own Call to Action for their story. Ask your child about it. In Math students finished their pixel art and found the area and perimeter of rectangles and squares in their image. When they were finished they completed left over assignments on Mathletics. Tomorrow we will have a quiz on perimeter and area. In Social Studies students began using the same website from yesterday to find answers to the research questions that they posed. Students will have one more day to complete this task tomorrow. In Science we did a pre and post watching assessment utilizing a Bill Nye video on magnetism to assess students prior knowledge. We had PE and also got new boo

Happy Monday! Today we started our Hero's Journey plan in Language Arts. Students are going to utilize the plan to create a fictional narrative about a hero. Here is the video we watched to spark our interest. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hhk4N9A0oCA In Math we continued to work on our Pixel Art. We utilized squares and rectangles to create a picture. Students then utilized these images to find Area and Perimeter of their shapes. In Social Studies we started to do some research on Blackfoot people. We used this website  https://www.glenbow.org/blackfoot/EN/flash/index.htm  to find generate questions. Students will begin to find answers to their proposed research questions tomorrow. Students also received their spelling words for this week. We had Ignite, PE, and Music as well today. 

Happy Monday. Today we found patterns within multiplication. Students completed a quick assessment to check for their understanding. Our school is in a Mathletics competition this week. Students recieve points for time spent, assignments completed, and tests attempted. We will utilize it every day this week at school and students are encouraged to practice at home. The schools with the most points win prizes. In language arts we practice our Daily 5. We had Ignite and Music in the morning. Most of our afternoon was swimming. Tomorrow is our last day of swimming. This week is book fair. Students will have the chance to browse tomorrow during our library time. Students can make purchases tomorrow or bring in money later in the week if they wish. The book fair will also be open during conferences. Wednesday is Students Dress Like Teachers and Teachers Dress Like Students spirit day!

Hello! Today students practice presenting their IRIS goals to a peer. They are excited to share their goals with you next week. In Math we reviewed multiplication strategies and started to work on a multiplication chart to utilize as a resource. In Science we did a KWL chart (what we Know, Wonder, and think we will Learn) about our new unit Electricity and Magnetism. We swam to day in the afternoon. We do not swim on Friday. Our final two days of swimming are next Monday and Tuesday. Finally we help our Kindergarten buddies brainstorm problem solving strategies to utilize with their peers. Tomorrow we will do a writing prompt to assess student growth. Please return Lunchroom expectation forms if you have yet to do so. Thank you!

I hope everyone had a wonderful long weekend! Today was our first swimming day. We will swim Wednesday and Thursday of this week as well as Monday and Tuesday of next week. In Science we wrote our unit test for Weather Watch. Most students were able to finish. A couple students will take a little bit of extra time tomorrow.  In Math we did some review of multiplication strategies and properties from grade 4. We are just beginning our Multiplication and Division unit.  In Language Arts students wrote their spelling quizzes from last week.  Students should be coming home with marked math quizzes (decimal addition and place value).  You should be able to see the results from the math quiz as well as their Human Impacts on Weather posters on PowerSchool now. 

Today we had our Remembrance Day assembly. The students were solum and showed tremendous respect throughout. In Math we did some practice with adding and subtracting decimals utilizing Mathletics. Students had a quiz for decimal place value and addition and subtraction yesterday. They will be marked and on power school soon. In Science we reviewed for our unit test. We will write it on Tuesday next week after a quick final review. Each student was given a review sheet and encouraged to bring it home to study for 30 minutes over the weekend. We have swimming starting Tuesday, November 12th. Students need to bring a swim suit, towel, and bag to carry their gear to and from the pool.  There is no school on Monday November 11th. Have a great weekend!