Last News for 2008!

Our last news for the year was written by all the students on the last day of school.

(Sara) This week the whole school went to the gym and we sang Christmas carols. From December 15 to 18 we all brought in canned food. Our class had 24 cans of food (for the food bank).

(Kevin) To make pizza we put dough and flour on the table and we put toppings on the pizza like pepperoni, olives and green pepper. The we cooked the pizzas in the oven.

(Angie) A scientist visited our class. Her name was scientist Cartan. We got a science workbook. We learned about structures, stability, bridges and point load.

(Raika) On Friday we celebrated Shab-e-Yalda, which means the sun's birthday in Iran. Ms. R brought in some Iranian food to celebrate. Also on Friday, there was a huge snowstorm. Some of the students went home!

(Alison and Nicole) In math we studied 3D solids. We took pieces of paper and folded them into 3d solids. At the end, we taped them on to pieces of yarn and hung them up.

(Liam and Parsa) This week we studied about Hanukkah. We learned how to play with our dreidels (spinning tops). We also made donuts and they were very delicious.

(Cole and Grace) We made crystals with borax and hot water using pipe cleaners, string, popsicle sticks and cups.

(Eve) On Thursday, December 18th we did our holiday concert. We sang When You Wish Upon A Star and O Sole Mio. Also the whole school did something called holiday post office. It's when every class has a street name and other students can send you letters.

Update from Ms. R

This week's homework is to practise singing the songs "When You Wish Upon A Star" and "O Sole Mio" to get ready for our school concert on Thursday Evening. Also complete the word search puzzle with all the names from Room 5 in it and create your own word search using words from all the different things we have learned about so far this year.

* FOOD DRIVE Please bring non-perishable food (in cans, jars or boxes) for our schools food drive to help those people in the city in need.

Dec. 16 (PM) - Scientists in the Schools
Dec. 18 (AM) - Our Italian Feast
Dec. 18 (evening) - Holiday Concert - 6:30 to 7:30
Dec. 19 - Last day of class
Jan. 5 - First day of class for 2009

December 10 News

This week's news by Ms. R (we ran out of time this week!)

As you can see in the photo, my son Max came in to connect and set up the Smartboard computer in our class. We are the first classroom to have this technology and we are slowly learning how we can use it in our class. We used it to learn how to make the "Iggy's Holiday Dance" video, create notes for our science experiment and to listen and learn a new song (When You Wish Upon A Star) from the movie of the old Italian folktale "Pinocchio", written over 100 years ago by Carlo Collodi (Nicole did her research project on this famous Italian).

In math we are learning about 3D (three dimensional) geometric solids.

Eve brought in a DVD with a Pink Panther cartoon called "Pink da Vinci" where he gets in trouble for repainting the smile on the Mona Lisa. The class then wrote an opinion story about the cartoon.

In science we continued to learn about the scientific method for conducting experiments. The photo shows "silly putty" that the students made using glue, water and borax. They wrote about their theories on how two liquids mixed together actually made a solid (or more accurately, a semi-solid).

This week and next we are reviewing all the word wall words we studied so far this year. One way we reviewed these words was to create word search puzzles for other students to solve.

The children created snowflakes on the computer at www.addictinggames.com/createasnowflake.html.

On Friday afternoon, the children snuggled with their pillows to watch the holiday movie "Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer".

Update from Ms. R

The homework this week is for each student to teach an adult learner how to make a kirigami paper snowflake and then write a report on how the lesson went.

On the afternoon of December 16 "Scientists in the Schools" will be visiting our classroom. We need 3 adults to help us out. If you are interested please write a note in your child's agenda and I will get back to you.

December 3 News

December 3 News by Raika and Liam

This week we finished our pillows and wrote stories about how to make a pillow. My favourite part was using the fabric crayons (Liam). I liked sewing up the opening with a needle and yellow thread. I liked teaching the students how to use a sewing machine (Ms. R).

In music, we learned the song "Bravo Bravissimo" and "O Sole Mio". We listened to Luciano Pavarotti and Bryan Adams sing a duet of that song (due = two in Italian).

In math we used what we know about 2D shapes (polygons) to help us design building. I designed a building for a vet (Raika) and I designed a school (Liam). We wrote about how many different kinds of shapes were in each building.

We went to the gym to see Dufflebag Theatre perform "A Christmas Carol". Sara from our class was asked to go in the play and be a girl called Victoria. She did a really good job. In our opinion the play was funny.

We made kirigami snowflakes (that's Japanese for cut + paper). We glued them to black piece of paper and wrote our names with chalk on them. These are now on the wall in our classroom.

We worked with tangrams. The more we did the puzzles the faster we got. Each student designed their own tangram puzzle. I did Dracula (Liam) and I did a puppy with big ears (Raika). We then tried to do everyones puzzles and we could do one in 30 seconds or less.

Each student picked a famous Italian person. We made posters and on the poster we put stenciled their last name at the top. We also wrote research facts about the person on the poster. Finally we put on a map of where they were born in Italy.

We did drama plays with Ms. Adeodu. The story was "Strega Nona Meets Her Match". I played the part of Big Anthony (Liam) and I played the part of Strega Nona and the narrator (Raika).

We said good bye to Ms. Adeodu this week. We hope she becomes a great teacher!

Ciao! from Liam and Raika

Update from Ms. R

This week's homework is to write a story (in the homework writing journal) about the play we saw this week in the gym called "A Christmas Carol" OR write a story about a music conductor.

Important dates:

1. December 1 - Report Cards go home today.
2. December 3 (AM) - Trip to see the play "You're a Good Man Charlie Brown"
3. December 4 (evening) and December 5 (AM - no classes) - Parent/teacher interviews
4. December 16 (PM) - Scientists in the Schools visit
5. December 18 (evening) - Winter Concert
6. December 20 - January 5 - Winter Holidays

November 26 News

November 26 News by Angie and Razan

This week we looked for different shapes in the classroom. The most common shape is a rectangle. We learned how to use Venn diagrams to sort things. We used shapes to create a building. I designed a building for an electronics company (Razan) and I designed a Chinese restaurant called "The Bowl" (Angie).

We photocopied a picture of the Mona Lisa (by Leonardo da Vinci). We coloured it with yellow food colouring and cut it out and glued it on white cardboard. We each designed our own background and gave Mona Lisa something to make her smile. I put her in the countryside and gave her a bowl of cherries (Angie) and I put her in a park with a bowl of strawberries and having a picnic (Razan).

We watched a Bugs Bunny cartoon that used the music of Rossini's The Barber of Seville. It was called the Rabbit of Seville. It was funny.

We listened to more opera, this time by the Italian composer Verdi. We listened to Ms. R read a book called "How Pizza Came To Our Town". It was about a town where they didn't know what pizza was until Ms. Pelligrino from Italy came to visit.

We made an advent calendar. Advent means arrival in Latin. We are counting the days until the winter holidays. On each day one student gets a package that has Italian candies, a maze, a pencil and a bouncy ball. There are 17 more days now until the holidays.

We read a book about William "Snowflake" Bentley who lived 143 years ago. He was famous for studying and taking pictures of snowflakes. He found out that snowflakes are hexagons and that they are all different.

We learned how to do kirigami (Japanese for cutting paper). And we cut paper snowflakes. The best part was when you opened up the snowflake to see what it looked like.

Arrivederci (that's Italian for good bye) from Razan and Angie

November 19 News

November 19 News by Eric and Hodman

This week we wrote stories using "textless" (that means a book that has pictures but no words) books. My story was about a skipping mouse named Alex (Eric). My story was about some rabbits that took some balloons to a house and caused some trouble there (Hodman).

We had two visitors to our class this week, a person named Libby brought her dog named Bobby. She was here to talk about being kind to animals and how to take care of pets.

We recorded our song that we wrote new words to called Boom De Ya Da. If you want to listen to the song press the triangle play button and you can hear us singing.

In math we are looking at shapes and that's called geometry. The most common shape in the classroom is the rectangle. We also learned that the number of sides of a shape is equal to the number of vertices. The more sides a shape has the more it looks like a circle.

We made the last piece of fabric for our pillows. First we put our names on the fabric. Next we did an accordian fold and held the folds in place with elastic bands. Then we sprayed some water on the fabric so the colours would spread. Finally we painted the fabric with yellow, red and green-blue paint.

Ms. R filmed our magnet puppet plays and then we watched them on our TV. We worked with a partner and the plays were good and funny.

We learned about the Italian composer called Rossini, he lived over 200 years ago. He wrote music called opera. Opera was started in Italy. We listened to The Barber of Seville and used straws to conduct the music. We watched a movie about Rossini and this opera. We thought this movie was good and very funny.

Good bye from Hodman and Eric

Update from Ms. R

This week's homework is to write a fiction or non-fiction story about the small package of gummi bears taped into the homework writing journal.

On Thursday, we counted 50 school days. Of course that means 50 pictures of Mr. Lee in his crazy shirts. Here is a video of some of the shirts so far.



Important Dates:

1. November 27 - Multi-cultural Night (flyer sent home on Friday)
2. December 1 - Report Cards go home
3. December 4 (evening) & December 5 (morning) - Parent/Teacher interviews
4. December 4 - P.A. Day - no classes
5. December 18 - Holiday Concert (evening)
6. December 20 to January 6 - Winter holidays

November 12 News

November 12 News by Ansh and Eve

This is our peace writing, our painted peace poppies and our folded paper cranes. This photo is of Ms. Adeodu our new student teacher. She is helping the star student with the morning message.

In math we are talking about measurement, area and perimeter.

We saw a video about magnets. There are north and south poles on magnets. We made puppets out of stiff paper and taped paper clips on the bottom and we used magnets under a tissue box stage to move the puppets. Some of the magnets were not strong enough and seemed to lose their power.

We finished reading the book Stink and the Super Smelly Sneaker Contest. He didn't win because he ended up being a judge. His friend Sophie won the contest and they called her Sophie of the Smells.

We sang our peace song at the Remembrance Day ceremony. The whole school sang a song I am but a small voice. We had a visitor talk to us who survived the war and he had medals on his jacket.

We learned how adjectives make a story more interesting. If there were no adjectives in the world all the stories would be boring.

In our reading groups we learned how to use encyclopedias. I looked up tarantulas (Ansh) and I looked up Italy (Eve).

We sang some silly songs. I liked singing Hokey Pokey (Ansh) and I liked singing The Green Grass Grew All Around (Eve).

We learned a drawing technique to show how things glow by using straight, short lines like for fireflies, lightbulbs and candles.

Good bye from Eve and Ansh

Update from Ms. R

Important Dates:
1. November 3-9 - Book Fair - Our class visit day is Monday Nov.3 and children are encouraged to bring money to purchase books.
2. November 11 - Remembrance Day Assembly - 10:45 AM - Our class will perform - families are welcome.
3. December 1 - Report cards go home
4. December 4 (evening) and December 5 (morning) - Parent-Teacher interviews
5. December 4 - P.A. Day - no classes

Here is a video of Edie Shaw teaching our class drumming.

November 5 News

November 5th News by Grace and Kevin

This week in science we learned that magnets don't stick to all metals. They don't stick to pennies but a 2008 penny did stick. We made magnets out of sewing needles. Magents work through paper, plastic bags and cups, water and even Ms. R's hand!
We wrote stories about our spiders as if we were the spiders, because spiders can't write (they aren't real... we made them). My spider's name is Ashley (Grace) and mine is David (Kevin). We learned how to make paper cranes out of a flat piece of paper and folded it into a 3D crane.
Carol-Ann the poet came to visit us. She taught us some of her poems, she read some poems out of books. One book was called "Do Buses Eat Kids?". The photo shows her teaching us how to do the actions to the words of the poem and then we repeated them.
We made caramel apples for a treat for Halloween. We used caramels that we took the wrappers off of and melted them in a big pot. We dipped the apples in the caramel. There was parade and a class party where we ate some food and watched the Lego Sports movie.
We learned how to do the ASL signs to go with our Peace song that we will sing at the Remembrance Day assembly. We painted poppies using red and black paint. We wrote about what peace means and taped the story, the paper crane and the poppies on black paper and they are now on the bulletin board in the hall.
In math we started to measure things using rulers, metre sticks and measuring tapes. We learned a new class cheer. The Book Fair is this week and goes until Friday. We started a read aloud called "Stink and the Super Stinky Sneaker Contest". The book is really gross in a funny way. Stink went to a museum where he went inside a nose and a mouth and said it was the smelliest trip ever.
Good bye from Kevin and Grace

Update from Ms. R

The homework this week is to write a non-fiction story in the homework writing journal about one of the following:

Halloween OR The visit of Carol-Ann Hoyte (poet) to our classroom

Important Dates:

1. November 3-9 - Book Fair - Our class visit day is Monday Nov.3 and children are encouraged to bring money to purchase books.

2. November 11 - Remembrance Day Assembly - 10:45 AM - Our class will perform - families are welcome.

October 29 News

October 29 News by Nicole and Parsa

This week we wrote scary stories. Mine is about a boy who went to a haunted house and the ghosts and witches were not very nice to him (Parsa). My story is about a witch and she lived in a haunted house and the the witch did not like kids very much (Nicole).

In math we worked with numbers. We talked about addition and subtraction with two and three digit numbers. Addition is easier that subtraction!

In science we learned about magnets. We tried magnets on different things and we found out that most metal things stick to magnets. They didn't stick to the doorknob, Ms. R's keys or the front green blackboard (but it did stick to the morning message blackboard!?). Today we made magnets by rubbing a sewing needle on a magnet and trying to pick up paper clips.

We learned a song for Remembrance Day called Peace. We will perform the song in front of the school.

We made spiders from styrofoam balls, black pipe cleaners, black paint, glue and googly eyes.

Our new student teacher arrived in our class. Her name is Ms. Adeodu. She is 22 years old and born in the country called Nigeria but grew up in Alberta, Canada. She likes to write poems and she read us a poem that she wrote.

An author visited our school. Her name is Heather Down and she read us a book called "Charity's Chirp" about a girl who ate birdseed.

Dwali, a Hindu celebration, started this week and lasts for 5 days. We had a sweet treat to celebrate.

Halloween is almost here and we now have skeletons in the window of our classroom door and long, plastic rainy things hanging in the doorway.

Good bye from Parsa and Nicole

Update from Ms. R

Important Dates:
1. October 24 - P.A. Day - no school
2. October 31 - Halloween - parade (AM) and class celebration (PM)
3. November 11 - Remembrance Day - our class will perform during the morning assembly (families are welcome)

This week's homework:

The homework this week is a math review sheet. This will be sent home with your child on Thursday.

October 22 News

October 22 News by Sophia and Alison

This week Edie taught how to use the drum. We tried to make sounds in two different ways. I tried the "jim-bay" (Sophia) and I tried the big drum with a stick (Alison).

We said good bye to our student teacher Mr. Deacon. He read us his favourite book called The Important Book and we wrote the important things about us in our writing journals.

We listened to the story The Tales of a Gambling Grandma. The grandma in the story liked to play cards for treasures.

We made three dimensional pumpkins out of folded, orange paper with green and black paper to make jack-o-lanterns. These are now hanging from the ceiling outside of our class.

We made pictures to show rural and urban communities. The rural art was a drawing that we painted and the urban art showed buildings cut out of newspaper.

The students have been working hard learning their doubling facts and how to add and subtract quickly.

We saw a video about Halloween. Trick or treating started a long time ago and they did it by going to other people's houses and asking for food.

We listened to the spooky story called The Tailypo and we started planning to write our own spooky stories.

We practised singing the song lyrics we wrote to the song Boom De Ya Da. We each sing by ourselves the words that we wrote.

A person from Japan visited our class to learn about students in Canada. Her name is Rie. She will come back next week.

Good bye from Sophia and Alison

Update from Ms. R

This week's homework:

1. Math - Students will work at home to learn some math facts. Each child has made game cards in class to use at home. The focus is to learn the "double" addition facts and how these can help with addition and subtraction. These cards and a related worksheet will be sent home on Friday.

2. Language - Please write a fiction story about the robot in your homework writing journal.

Important Dates:

1. October 23 - Family Math Night (6-7 PM) - It's not too late to sign up! Forms were sent home last week. If you need another copy please contact me.
2. October 24 - P.A. Day - no school
3. October 31 - Halloween - school parade (AM) and class celebration (PM)
4. November 11 - Remembrance Day - our class will perform - families are welcome to attend

October 15 News

October 15 News by Cole and Sara
This week we celebrated Thanksgiving. Everyone brought in a vegetable. I brought in broccoli (Cole). We washed our hands and cut up the vegetables and made soup. We also made bread and butter. It was delicious and fantastic!
While the food was cooking we wrote about Thanksgiving in our classroom in our writing journals.
This week we each got our own pen pal. We worked with the hard-of-hearing students from
Pepper's class. We wrote letters on special "Domo" paper and made handprints using blue paint to give to our pen pals. My pen pal's name is Chloe (Sara) and mine is Benjamin (Cole).
Mr. Deacon taught us about urban and rural communities and we painted rural paintings and we glued newspaper rectangles on paper to make urban art.
We recorded us singing our Room 5 song (just click on the triangle below and listen to us singing!).




We made addition tables in math. It is like using a paper calculator.
We went to the gym and had Fun Atheletics Day.
We started to write stories about if our pencils could talk. My pencil would say it would cheat on the spelling test (Cole). My pencil said, "Can I have something to eat?" (Sara). Of course these are fiction stories!
Good bye from Sara and Cole

Update from Ms. R

What a great week this week! The highlight was our Thanksgiving celebration today. All the chefs-in-training in our class did a great jar making (eating and sharing) bread, butter and vegetable soup. If you would like the recipes for bread and butter, please visit my food blog at: www.thatsakeeper.blogspot.com (Oct. 9th posting).

This week's homework is to invent a new holiday and to write (and draw) how people would celebrate this holiday. A releated worksheet will be sent home with your child on Friday.

Important dates:
1. October 13 - Thanksgiving Day - no school
2. October 23 - Family Math Night (6:00-7:00 PM) *Please sign up to learn about how you can talk about math ideas with your child at home.
3. October 24 - P.A. Day - no school

October 8 News

October 8 News
By: Trinity and Gabriel

We have a new Alpha fish and another new fish called George the pleco. We made the covers for the pillows we are making this year. We also finished our marble art and it is on our board outside of room 5.

In math, we are learning about number lines and rounding. We played the picnic game that has a secret trick. The game's trick uses a pattern.

Tomorrow, we are going to celebrate Thanksgiving by making a vegetable soup and bread. We are going to make butter too!

In music, we listened to a song called 'Boom De Ya Da' and we made our own lyrics for the song.

We had the QSP assembly that was about a website http://www.qsp.ca/ and you can win prizes based on your magazine sales. Also, there is a scratch and win backpack.

We're done! Good bye! Have a good day and a great weekend! From Trinity and Gabriel

Update from Ms. R

This week's homework:

Students will complete a writing assignment this week in their homework writing journals. This journal will be sent home about once a month during first term. The journals will be sent home with your child on Friday, October 3.

Important Dates:

Oct. 13 - Thanksgiving Day - no classes
Oct. 23 - Family Math Night - more information to come
Oct. 24 - P.D. Day - no classes
Oct. 31 - Halloween

October 1 News

October 1st News
By: Alex and Raika
Yesterday, we made paintings using marbles and we also celebrated a Jewish holiday called Rash Ha-Shanah. We had apples and honey to celebrate. Today, we celebrated Eid and the end of Ramadan. We had delicious cookies for Eid that patterns on them that looked like the henna decorations for Muslim celebrations.

We learned about the forces of friction and gravity in science.

We learned about place value in math. We also got new textbooks and workbooks.

We got our scholastic book order forms.

Today, we went on a website called Starfall. http://www.starfall.com/

In library class, we read a book called 'The Principles New Clothes' with Ms. Mantello and it was very funny.

In music, we learned to sing a song called 'It's a beautiful morning'.

We raised $57.85 for cancer research during the Terry Fox Run.

In guided writing, we are writing instructions for the marble art. We made backwards stories and once we are all done we will put them up in the hall.

We are reading a book called 'Tootle' about a baby locomotive. It was in a list of the most popular books for kids.

Goodbye,
From Alex and Raika

September 25 News

September 25 News

by Ms. Rawlinson

These photos show the students in gym class with Mr. Hinrichsen, making structures out of cards and finishing the Terry Fox Run.

This week I am writing the news because it was a four day week and we didn't have time to do it in the computer lab this week.

It was wonderful to see all the families at the BBQ and curriculum night this week. I am very proud of all the work that the class does and I'm glad you had a chance to see some of their work and learn more about the program in Room 5.

This week each student collected information about themselves and made a little "time capsule" book. They measured their height and weight, traced their hands and feet, wrote down their wishes and even included a photo and a lucky coin (from another country). As a class we wrote a letter to ourselves in June 2009. We sealed up the letter and 19 time capsule books and we won't open it until the end of school. It will be interesting to see what has changed and what hasn't.

The students learned how to use a graphic organizer to plan a fiction story. We figured out our names spelled backwards (mine is Ycnan Nosnilwar) and started to write a story. The children complied their reading responses to the book My Cat Likes to Hide in Boxes. They used Kid Pix on the computer to type their writing and created a picture to go with their words (ex. The cat from Brazil ate a vitamin pill).

The class made some "circle art" by using black pen to trace around a juice lid and colouring in the shapes made from the overlapping lines. They also learned how to fold an origami duck and folded a family of ducks as a reading response to the classic story Make Way for Ducklings.

In math we practised the math strategies we know to help us solve problems. One activity was to count the number of stars drawn in one minute. The class learned why grouping by tens works so well. Counting by tens is faster than by 1, 2 or 5 and the number of groups of tens gives the tens unit in a two-digit number (place value).

Sept. 22 was the first day of fall and we talked about why this is a special day for the earth. We listened to the autumn movement of Vivaldi's classic The Four Seasons and conducted in time with the music using straws as batons.

We started to talk more about gravity in science. Did you know that a chair is like an anti-gravity device? The students built towers out of playing cards (just like Einstein liked to do as a child - we read that he made towers 14 stories high in his biography) and some students were overheard saying (as their towers fell), "Oh! I don't like gravity!"

Homework This Week

Students were asked to teach an adult how to fold an origami duck. They were given a sheet to fill out to reflect on how they think they did as a teacher. This sheet was sent home in the agendas on Thursday.

Notes from Ms. R Sept. 18

Another busy week in Room 5! The homework this week is for each student to write about his/her favourite book. This sheet will be sent home in your child's agenda on Friday. These reports will be made into one of our classroom community books.

I look forward to seeing you at the school's BBQ (5:30 - 6:30) and Curriculum Night (6:30-7:30) on Thursday, September 25th.

From, Ms. R

September 17 News

News by Razan and Liam

This Mr. Deacon. He is our student teacher. His favourite TV show is Jeopardy.

We read the book The Dot by Peter H. Reynolds. This art was made by drawing spots dots with oil pastels on paper. We made the frames by putting glue on cardboard then we painted it gold. These are in the hall by room 5.
In math we learned how to use calculators and t-charts to help us solve math problems.

We made music shakers by putting orzo in cans. We listened to Crazy Frog and we shook them to the beat. We did the Reader's Theatre play Why Bear Has A Stumpy Tail and Ms. R filmed the plays and we watched them on TV. We learned about hippos and read the second book about Owen and Mzee (a language of friends) a story a hippo and a tortoise in Keyna that became friends. We looked at the website http://www.owenandmzee.com/ and played games and saw photos.

We learned about each other by reading our A Little Bit about Me homework. We started to read a story about Albert Einstein. Did you know that he was a poor student (that is, he was not a good student) who liked to play the violin?
Good-bye from Liam and Razan

Ms. R's cat Iggy likes to hide in boxes like in a book we read called My Cat Likes To Hide In Boxes.

The 100 shirts of Mr. Lee

This year our class will be doing many long-term projects. One project is counting the number of different shirts that Mr. Lee has. Mr. Lee is our school's grade 1/2 teacher. Everyday he seems to wear a different shirt. The legend is that he has almost 100 different colourful shirts....

This week our class is setting up a display in the second floor west stairwell showing the different photos we have taken so far.

Sept. 10 News

Sept. 10th News by Angie and Hodman

This week we did patterning in math. We read a book called Pattern Fish. We made patterns with pattern blocks and our bodies. We listened to a song by Blue Man Group and listened to a pattern in the song. We looked at a video by Blue Man group on a DVD and Youtube. You can watch the youtube video at home. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVWlUw6BfLw

We wrote about our class pets, Alpha and Beta. We wrote cooperative stories with a partner.

We went to the library. We read Blueberries For Sal and we tasted blueberries and we squished them to see what colour was inside (it was red, yellow-green, and purple).

In science we cut out paper flowers and folded the petals. When we put them in water the petals opened up because the water forced the petals to push up.

This week we made shakers out of cans and pasta (orzo or rice shaped pasta) for music. We made small art journals by sewing pages into a book with a cover that we covered with paint and sticky plastic.

We welcomed Mr. Deacon our new student teacher to our class this week.

In computers we learned about internet safety at http://media-awareness.ca/english/special_initiatives/games/privacy_playground/flash/start.html


Bye from Hodman and Angie

September 5 News

Room J2 Homework News – Sept. 2 - 5, 2008

Due: Friday, September 12, 2008

What a busy week it’s been! The students have been hard at work adjusting to their new classroom and the new routines. This week we did a lot of activities to help everyone learn more about each other.

The students made their own name art for their desks and worked together to make a message for our hall bulletin board. They wrote stories about summer and our fish. We read lots of books, sang songs and played math and word games. We also began our big class project “The 100 Shirts of Mr. Lee” and welcomed our class pets, “Alpha” and “Beta”, a fantail goldfish and a shubunkin goldfish.

Please note that the students need to wear proper footwear for gym on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays. Our library book exchange day is Monday.

Weekly Homework

Every week the students will be asked to do a few small pieces of homework that will be due the following Friday.

This week’s homework is:

Language – Please complete the attached interest survey with your child.

PLEASE make sure that your child reads for 10-15 minutes (or more) every night either with you or independently. It is VERY IMPORTANT at this age for children to read at home everyday.

If you have any questions or comments about the weekly homework, please contact me through the school at 416-393-0570, through your child’s agenda or via email at nrawlinson@rogers.com.

Important Dates

September 25 – Welcome Back BBQ AND Curriculum Night (5:30 – 7:30)
September 26 – Professional Activity Day – no school on this day
October 13 – Thanksgiving Day – no school on this day