Monday - Wednesday Update

Here we are checking out the Book Fair in the Learning Commons! We were
all quite excited to hear about so many book choices from Mrs. Kidd and
browse with our "wish lists". We are hoping to share these with you and show
you around during our Meet, Greet and Learn Night Thursday from 5-7pm. 
Please plan to come and visit our classroom, say hello to Mrs. Armour, see some
of our learning so far and visit the Book Fair!



In Math we are learning some new games to practice our addition, subtraction and
multiplication! Today we learned "Multiplication Madness" - all you need is a deck
of cards, a pencil and a paper (or a marker and a white board!). The first card (number)
tells us how many groups to draw and the second card tells us how many dots to
put in the group. Then we add them all up and see if we get the same number!

We also played race to 100 with buttons and dice.


In gym we are continuing with cooperation games. Today we played "over
and under". You really have to pay attention to the person in front of you and
work together as a team!




In Math we are starting to learn different strategies to solve problems. Drawing
a picture is a good strategy to use when there is a word story problem. We are
learning to find and highlight the important words and then turn the story into
number sentences to find the answer. Ask me how I did with the "Paula and the
skipping rope" story and the "Mouse who lost his crackers".



We had to be flexible as scientists to learn about light and our shadows. We had to wait for the sun! Ask me how my shadow changed from the morning to the afternoon.

REMINDER:
Meet, Greet and Learn Evening 5-7pm Thursday, September 19th

(Happy Birthday to Max on September 19th)

Non-instructional Day on Friday - Enjoy your weekend! Pay attention to your
shadow when the sun is out and try to guess how it might look different in a few
hours!

Fresh Air Friday Walk Around Our Community

Today after our "Big Pick Up" Recycling with Room 4/5, we
discussed what communities provide - ask me if I can remember all seven!
Ask me to name the places I saw as we walked around Brentwood.
(Hint: Places to Meet...Learn...)
As you walk and drive and bike around your community over the next week observe all the different buildings that you see and what they are used for.



It was great to see so many of you at the welcome back BBQ last evening!

Science update: can you find objects that are transparent, translucent and opaque around your home?
Check out what refraction looks like by asking if you can fill a glass half full with water and putting a straw in it. Does it matter if it is straight up and down or sideways? Observe the LIGHT around you - is it artificial or natural - how can you tell? Does the object REFLECT or ABSORB the light?

REMINDERS:

Thanks for dressing for the weather! (A pair of extra socks is a good idea for rainy days and a sweatshirt or sweater your child can leave on their coat hook).

MONDAY is our Library day for the year. Next week is BOOK FAIR - we will visit on Monday with our Wish Lists.
THURSDAY, September 19 is our Meet, Greet and Learn Evening from 5:00 -7:00 PM. It will be a chance for you to come and see our classroom, some of our learning, think about a goal for your child and visit the book fair!
FRIDAY, September 20 is a non-instructional day.

Wednesday, September 11th, 2019

"Today we (Clubhouse) exposed our knowledge about LIGHT!" 

"We also had a scavenger hunt about light" (we looked for objects that are transparent, translucent, opaque in our classroom. We found things that REFLECT, REFRACT and ABSORB.

Today in Music we made rain and thunder with our hands and feet. 

Some of us ran at lunch for RUN CLUB (every Wednesday is Run Club - wear your green Dr. Coffin sweatshirt or t-shirt and running shoes!)

Today we did Salut - a game for math. Some of us were captains, and had to add up our partners cards and tell them the answer. It was fun! Ask me about it. 

Tomorrow 5-7pm is the Welcome Back BBQ. 

Hurray! We're back! Welcome to Our Clubhouse Blog!

Thank you for your patience while we resolved our technical issue!

Thanks to Anya, Kais, Abi and Levi who are helping with the Blog this week.
Here is some of what they wrote about our learning...

• we were the "test class" for the laptops today
• we worked on "math about me" and did some subtraction and addition "checks"
• today we had gym inside and played a game called Kick and Throw. Ask me how to play!
• in science we will be learning about light and shadow - here are some words we will be studying more...opaque, translucent, transparent, reflection, refraction.
• did you know light bends and bounces?

We are also discovering the difference between a complete sentence and a fragment.

Ask me if I can give you an example of each. 

Our writing prompt on Monday was "If you could be any animal, what would you be and why?"

Ask me what I wrote about. (We could also choose to write about our weekend.)

Music days are Wednesday and Thursday.

Our Library day this year is Monday. 

Today we made "hexagon boxes" The challenge was to choose a number between
10 and 20 and make 6 equations. Ask me what my magic number was!



Our first Fresh Air Friday was all about learning to observe nature all around us.
We had a scavenger hunt to see how many different kinds of plants we could find,
then we sketched our favorite thing in our Art journals.



Here are our jobs for the week. Ask me about mine and what I'm responsible for.

If "Ketchup and Pickles" are on the board - this gives us time to "Catch-up"
or if we have completed all our tasks, we can "Pick" something we'd like to do - ask
me what my favourite "pick" is.




Last Thursday the whole school had a welcome back assembly. We always start with an
Acknowledgment of the Land, then Mr. O'Reilly leads us in O Canada. At the end of the assembly
we sing the Dr. Coffin song....can you sing along? "If you go down Barrett Drive..."

We are working hard to settle in to school and learn all our routines and expectations. Mrs. Armour read the book Decibella and then we discussed "voice levels".

THANKS FOR READING!

WELCOME BACK BBQ is 5-7PM Thursday.