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Ask your child what their New year's resolution is?

We wasted no time!
In Math, the class has been practising how to tell time to the nearest five minutes. Together, we constructed a class clock to familiarize ourselves with the hour and minute hand and some common times such as quarter past the hour and quarter to the hour.

The students practised telling time by doing worksheets, by playing time games and by challenging themselves on websites about time on the internet.

With the cold temperatures this week, it was a no brainer to introduce temperature. We answered the question of what the "whir" sound was in our classroom? Our classroom furnace ran all day on Thursday and Friday!

 We explored common temperature benchmarks. Ms. Natalie was brave enough to go outside on Friday to show the kids, who were looking through the window, what happens when boiling water hits freezing cold air.

Our unit of study in Language is procedural text. The students seem to have a really good foundation of this.

 We did a shared procedural text together. We used one of our very own student as a model for the photos! Ask your child who the lucky student was.

The class had plenty of practice looking at examples of procedural texts. Here, the students used the guided reading book we all read on origami to create their very own frogs by following the steps in the book.

 Here, the students made airplanes by following procedural text that used primarily diagrams.

In Science, the students started a new unit on Forces and Motion. We managed to use procedural text here in Science to create our marshmallow launchers. This experiment showed us how a push and/or  a pull  is the basis for all force and motion. Take a look at the students trying to shield themselves from the marshmallows coming their way!

Ask your child why they were on the floor in the gym in this photo.

Things to remember.....

• New Year Mass this Wed. January 16th at 1:30 pm. All are welcome.
• P.D. Day on January 25th
• Hold the dates: Swim to Survive for our class is March 20th, March 27th and April 3rd
• Please continue to check and initial agendas daily 
• Please continue to review homework with your child and review and sign assessments that come home in that book.