Monday, March 14th, 2016

It was a bit of a challenge for Old Mrs. Zwack to get up this morning after the time change!  Once we were together at school, all was well!

We started the day by ensuring that we all had a great book to read when the Drop Everything and read bell rang throughout the day.  Our students were amazing!  We worked on Daily 5 writing and tried to add in some Triple Scoop words into our work.  Next we worked on our handwriting, adding the letters v, x, y, and z to our growing list of letters.  Kartik has figured out that we have 6 more letters to learn!

Mr. Demman worked with us to expand our understanding of Triple scoop words and we started a short descriptive piece of writing about a trip to Mars.  We   also had French with Mrs. Kenna and worked on learning the names of various fruits.  See how many you can share with your parents!!

Good Afternoon Friends,

What a great start to our Reading Week.  Our afternoon started off with Spencer honoring his bet with Mrs. Bowles, they bet on the Coyotes and Flames game and as you can see from the picture Mrs. Bowles won!

Spencer this looks great on you!

Mr. Demman teaching a math lesson.

During the lesson we had our first Mystery Reader. Thank you to Mrs. Lowder for coming in and sharing the book Boy Soup.

During math we looked at the order of numbers in a multiplication equation.  We explored how the order can change the Multiplication Story we.  Our stories certainly were different when we moved the numbers around.  I think we found a 14 legged animal and a dinosaur with 18 horns...

The engineers are now ready to put their structure in place!!!  They have been busy coming up with ideas as to how to generate electricity.  There will be some exciting conversations and activities right around the corner.

The scientists are planning a website about what we have learned.  We want to share our thinking with everyone. We are looking at pictures, videos and writing about how important a job we have to survive on Mars.

In gym, we added some new skill to our existing skill.  We played a game of Pivot Tag that kept us moving and passing as much as we could to avoid those that were 'IT'.  We then took those skills and played a game of Circle Keep Away where the person in the middle tried their very best to keep the rest of us from scoring baskets.  Red faces mean great efforts!

1.) If you would like to have your picture taken with your favourite book, please bring order form or a note and the $5.00 tomorrow. IT will be the last day for photographs.
2.)  Tuesday is PJ Day and Book and Movie Club
3.)  Please bring back all pledges and donations by Thursday.
4.)  Parent Teacher Interviews are on Thursday Evening and Friday morning.



Write a multiplication story problem using what you learned from Mr. Demman today.