Tuesday February 9

Students are getting very excited for our Carnaval Activities tomorrow morning!  You can feel the excitement in the air!

Thank you to those parents who have sent in their supplies of the Tanga Art Project!  We have some extra books provided for those who do not have one from home.  We appreciate the collage items that have been sent in as well.  You do not need to go out and purchase any new items - we are simply looking to use up odds and ends from home.  Next week will be busy preparing our projects!

Please send in any remaining books and collage items tomorrow with your child.  If they do not have a photo of them reading from home, I will take one tomorrow at school.

We worked on our writing goals this morning and had another opportunity for Author's Chair.  This is where students share their writing and the audience provides support and feedback.  It is exciting to hear how the students are improving with targeted goals in mind as they write.  Next week we will be starting to work on specific strategies for fiction writing.  This will assist the students in expanding their ideas, making interesting word choices and creating imagery in their stories!

After Daily 5 this morning, we worked on our Right to Education Inquiry.  We are ready to begin listing our wonders based what we have already learned and what we hope to find out.  We also had our Friend, Kartik, share his photographs from his family trip to India.  It was exciting to hear about his adventures and to see the temples, elephants, clothing, countryside, wedding celebration and delicious looking foods.  Kartik did a wonderful job telling us about his trip and we made many connections to our Follow the Elephant novel!

This afternoon was a regular afternoon for a change.  We got a lot done and I feel we worked quite hard.

In music we worked on notes.  We identified notes and practiced counting the beats.  Here are two websites that students can use to practice the skills from class.

http://www.musictheory.net

and

http://rhythmrandomizer.com


In math, we looked at a counting up strategy for subtraction using a number line and the "old fashion" way of column subtraction.  It is really important to know where the larger number is in each column so you know if you have to trade (regroup).  We all need to work on our subtraction facts.  It would be a good idea to go on Mathletics or use one of the Apps you may have and brush up on your subtraction facts.

In our science inquiry,  we are continuing our planning for our next stages of our developing the planet of Mars.  The scientists are looking at fast growing and nutritious plants that can be grown. We are narrowing the list down and will be planting these for food on the Red Planet.  The engineers are organizing a list of materials needed to build their structures.  If you have any of the following items that you can donate for our project please send them into the class.  We would like to begin building after the long weekend.

Things We Will Need for Building:
1.)  Toilet Paper Rolls
2.)   Straws
3.)  Lego
4.) plastic rope
5.)  play dough
6.) marshmellows
7.) duct tape
8.) tinfoil
9.) cardboard boxes - cut down into bases for our designs
10.) ziplock bags
11.)  siran wrap

In gym, we completed our fitness unit by doing another beep test.  We tried very hard to show what we can do but not to over exert ourselves so that we were uncomfortable.



1.) Carnaval Tomorrow - we will be going out in the morning so please dress for the weather.  We will be outside for about an hour and a half.
2.) An important note about National Cupcake Day went home today - information must be returned for tomorrow.


3.)  Thursday and Friday is Teachers' Convention - no school for students
4.)  Monday is Family Day - No school




What is the most important thing that you need to remember to be successful when subtracting?