WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 24

Pink Shirt Day - End Bullying Today

This morning was very calm and productive as we worked diligently on our Tanga projects.  Mrs Zwack worked with students on adding stamps and finishing touches to sparkle up the book covers.  Mr. Demman worked with Guided Reading groups to see where our students are at!  In between, students worked on Daily 5 independently.  We were very impressed with how the students worked in such a focused manner and were patient, kind and helpful to one another.

During our Social Studies Inquiry we worked in our groups to finish the sentence

IF I WENT TO SCHOOL IN  ________ (name of country) I WOULD . . .

We listed ideas about what we would wear, how we would get to school, what our classroom might look like, what we would bring to school and what we might learn about.  These ideas will be the basis for our presentation at the assembly on March 4th!

Our afternoon totally flew by!  Even with dance being cancelled due to our instructor being ill, we definitely had enough to fill our time.

In math, we continued our work on multiplication. We re-examinded the work that we did with our Candy Boxes yesterday.  Today we looked at what an array was.  We learned the difference between rows and columns.  We defined an array.  Students learned a new game called Cover Up.   We also looked at how to write a multiplication equation using our arrays.

In our science inquiry, we continued to delve into our projects.  The botanists looked at a blog from Mars-One about the experiments that they have done growing plants for their trip to Mars.
Here is the link to the blog. Check it out and see what they are doing and how it compares to what we are doing.

https://community.mars-one.com/blog/category/food-for-mars

We also talked about how we are planning on fertilizing our plants... can you say urine and feces?  We are going to investigate my these are important and how we would do that.  DON'T WORRY - we will not be using human waste to fertilize our plants :0

We looked at the plants we grew last week. THEY HAVE GERMINATED. We wrote down our observations and measured and watered our plants. We were really excited.

The engineering group worked with Mr. Demman and looked at their plans. He had many questions that made them think about their plans and where they should go next with them.

We finished off our afternoon with Pink Shirt Day.  We watched the The Story of Pink Shirt Day. If you would like to watch it click on the link below.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjmf3I1_ZhU


We wrote our our promises to end bullying.

Things to Remember:

1.)  Tanga Thursday 6:00 - 7:30 pm.  If you cannot attend and would like to purchase your work -please email Mrs. Zwack and we will put a sold sticker on the work.  All art work is $10.

2.)  Cupcake Day - please bring a dollar for cupcakes on Monday.

Question of the Day:

How has bullying affected you?  What can you do to be the change you want to see in the world?