Tuesday, September 25th

Yesterday, Mrs. Armour was at a meeting in the morning so we were excited that Mr. O'Reilly was able to come to The Clubhouse to help us with our Daily Warm Up and Journal writing. (We could write about our weekend or start with this sentence..."If you could invent anything, what would it be and why?" Ask me what I wrote about...today we had more time to add interesting details and juicy words, check for spelling mistakes and if what we wrote made sense. We are supposed to find 2 friends to read our writing and ask them if they have any ideas to improve it. We are learning that writing is a process, not an event. Great writing takes time and a lot of editing!

For math we all thought our problem was was too easy! That means we are using the logical reasoning strategy well. By reading the clues one at a time and finding all the answers that are not right, it is much easier to find the answer! Here is one to try at home.

      Sam has 5 pets. She has a bird, a turtle, a cat, a snake and a hamster. She took all of them to
      the fair. One of them won first prize. Here are some hints.
           It can't fly.
           It has four legs.
           It is not furry.
      Which one of the pets won the prize?

Today we learned the making a table strategy. Here is a short version of one of the problems we worked on. Ask me which are the important (vs. interesting) words to highlight. It is great if you can figure this out in your head (mental math)! It is still important to learn how to show your steps so when the problems get harder, you can remember the steps.

      How many elves were at the picnic. Here are the clues.
         There were more than 15.
         There were fewer than 24.
         There was an even number of elves.
         The number had an 8 in the ones place.
    How many elves came to the picnic?

In technology time we had the choice to do Dance Mat typing or RAZ kids. Ask me if I was able log in without any help today!

Today was Treat Day! We had to bring in 25 cents to buy a treat. Mrs. Armour opens her "Bank Armour" if you forget - you can write a loan note for a quarter and bring it back tomorrow!
Thank you to Room 1 for supplying our snacks!

In Gym we are getting ready for the TERRY FOX RUN on Friday starting with our assembly at 10:15 am! Thank you to our volunteers who will be needed around the course so we can stay on track and those who help count our laps! The weather people are telling us it might be cold, rainy or even snowy, so make sure we all DRESS FOR THE WEATHER. Remember Terry ran 42 km every day while he was  running, so we will try our best to run at least 2 km!
We are running laps all week to get ready. Today we played Duck, Duck, Goose after we ran!

Yesterday we watched a short video showing us how to blend warm and cool colours to show a sunrise and sunset. Today we drew a line in the middle of the page and used pastels and blended with paper towel. We coloured and blended a lot so there was no white spaces. One side was to show morning the other side to show night - (ask me what colours I used for each side).

After quiet reading time, we are starting to share our books to let our friends know who the author is and what was our favourite part.

Thanks to our bloggers this week Karthik, Avery, Iain and Yazmine and all our other classroom helpers.

Have a great day!