Monday, September 28

We had a very productive day in room 80 today!

We were able to make self-selected choices in Daily 5 with people working on either Read to Self, Read to Someone or Word Work.  That allowed Mrs. Zwack to read with individual students and to complete some assessments.  Mrs. Zwack was very proud of everyone for staying on task and being able to manage their jobs well.

After snack and read aloud, we went to the hub for One World Drumming.  This was very fun and we learned a lot!  Our drums are from Africa and we learned how to play them using two different beats.  We also learned that it is very important to listen carefully to the instructions and to be careful with the instruments.  We are looking forward to being able to play a song together!

After drumming we had a few minutes to label our diagram of the brain in our journals.  We created "job bubbles" for each part including:  the prefrontal cortex, the hippocampus, and the amygdala.  Have your child tell you what each of these brain parts does!



Thank you, thank you, thank you!  For such a great afternoon!

We really brought our 'math brains' to school today.  We started off with some strategies around numbers and making numbers with base ten blocks.  We made sure that we all know the proper names for each of the blocks that we use:

unit block

tens rod


hundreds flat


thousands block

We made some numbers based on the following requirements:  it has some hundreds flats, one more tens rod than hundreds and 2 - less ones than hundreds flats.

The students made many different combinations.  Then Spencer challenged us to identify the number from the following illustration.

We talked about and experimented what happens when we have more than 10 units, rods or flats.  When we were all done we found out that the number that Spencer drew was 1 340.

In science, we have decided that there are not any real good videos that explain how gasoline is refined from oil, so we have decided to make our own.  Today we tried to learn a little bit more about the refining process. Tomorrow we are going to break it down into parts that we can understand and decide how to make our video from there.



In gym, we worked on running.  Our goal is to add to the "Run With Terry" map in the hub.  Each square on the map equals about 100 km.  Both our classes in phys. ed. ran a total of 73 km today!  We were absolutely amazing!! We will help finish Terry's Run in no time!!


1.)  Tomorrow is the first Peace Ambassador meeting at lunch.  Please bring your lunch!
2.)  Mrs. Bowles will be sending in the Scholastic Book order in tomorrow - please bring any remaining orders.
3.)  We will be doing a count for the Terry Fox Snacks tomorrow - please make sure all orders are in.
4.)  Student demographic forms - if you have any changes on your child's information please send forms back corrected
5.)  Running Club tomorrow - it will be a beautiful day for the run.
6.)  Please keep collecting pledges for our run Friday morning.

Question of the day:

Think of a number that only takes 4 words to say.  Please don't write a number that has been written by another student.

For example:  4 023  Four Thousand Twenty-three