January 7 News

January 7 News by Angie and Liam

(Note: Before the holidays we counted 75 different crazy shirts of Mr. Lee!!!)

This week we made (geometry) skeletons using toothpicks and plasticine. My best one was a pentagon-based pyramid (Angie). My best one was a tetrahedron or triangle-based pyramid (Liam).
Pepper's class visited us on Tuesday afternoon because we got letters back from our pen pals. They also sent us their handprints and some bookmarks. After we read the letters we started to write letters back to them being careful to answer the questions that the pen pals asked. We learned to make origami crickets - and they can jump! We made one for us to keep and one to give to our pen pal.
We practised our mental math addition using a regular dice with 6 faces (a cube or hexahedron) and an icosahedron dice (20 faces).
We conducted the "winter" song from the Italian composer Vivaldi's "The Four Seasons" to mark the first day of winter (December 21). We are listening to the read aloud book, "The Reasons For The Seasons" by Gail Gibbons. We learned that the time it takes the earth to travel around the sun is one year. The earth spinning around once is a day and the tilt of the earth causes the seasons on earth.
In our art journals we practised drawing cartoon people and animals. My best one was Cat Clarissa (Angie) and my best one was Martin Martian (Liam).

This news was by Liam and Angie.