February 5 - Learning Update

 Hello Team,

We had a wonderful full 5-day week here in Room 8. The next two weeks will be short weeks but I am sure we will still manage to squeeze in some fun with our learning. Thank you to everyone who brought their Valentine's cards this week. Any cards that are brought next week will, unfortunately, not be allowed to be passed out. Here is our learning update for the week. 

Language Arts - This week in Language Arts we created Danish Valentine's for a friend in our class. Danish people write poems or riddles on snowflakes and give them to their Valentine secretly with their name signed in code. We completed a similar activity where we wrote poems describing what we like about our friends in our class. We exchanged the cards and had fun trying to figure out who wrote each poem. 

Math - This week in Math, we began the highly anticipated multiplication unit. We will continue working on this next week and then transition to division. 

Science - This week we began our Building and Testing Materials Unit in Science. We began by familiarizing ourselves with some terms and definitions we will need to know for this unit. Thank you to everyone who has sent in a bag of recyclable materials with their student. You are still able to send materials next week as well. 

Social Studies - This week we started to look at the geography and environment of the 4 countries we are learning about this year. We will wrap this mini-unit up next week.   

Health - In health class, we continue to look at the area of wellness choices. This week we looked at what to do when somebody asks you to make an unhealthy choice. 

Remember to wear your formal uniform on Monday next week. Hopefully, we will be able to earn our class loop next week. Wednesday is also a special dress day where we get to wear clothing to celebrate the Lunar New Year, or Valentine's Day, whichever you would like. Next week is a short week, only 3 days long. The homework post this Sunday will be for the next two weeks as it would be silly to only give students 2 days to complete their homework tasks. 

Have a wonderful weekend everyone! Please stay warm!

Miss. Shevchuk