Les Bucherons

We had an assembly . Les Bucherons, is a French-Canadien singing group.  They tell stories about the development of Canada. Les Bucheron means woodcutter. TWO students got to go on the stage. The Grade 5s learned a dance very fast and showed it to us. He spoke a LOT of French!
After the performance, everyone went outside for gym! Gym went all the way to home time.

We are writing a Fairy Tale!

We are writing our own fairy tale. We had to use a story map and write a plan about the story. We could retell a story OR we could make our own ideas. We are using our best printing and good spelling. We can look at the word wall or ask a friend how to spell a sight word. We are using good sentences.
We played Dance Tag in gym. Miss Nikki will be coming to teach us our new dance!

We are Picasso's!

Picasso was a very good painter. In some paintings, one eye looks forward and one eye looks sideways.  He drew weird drawings called cubism!
Karon Argue was at our assembly this morning. She has a cool screen that helps her draw up close. It magnifies it lots and lots. She has to use it to draw her pictures because she is legally blind.  She read us her book called The Smooch.
As engineers, we had to build a bridge using only ONE piece of paper and no glue or tape.  We tried many different things but the best design was when we folded it.

Nutrition Bingo

We are still playing Nutrition Bingo! We are looking for a full card. THREE people have got a bingo already. We are learning about healthy foods and making good choices.  We need healthy food to make us strong.  The food groups are: milk/dairy, grain, meat, fruit & veggies!
Ask me what food groups I need for a bingo.  (Veggies seems to be most needed!)

Engineers in the Making!

Chairs for Baby Bear!

We had a building challenge! It was to make a chair for Baby Bear.  We made them out of cards, K'nex, straws, or cubes.  We had to make a chair that would not break.

We also read a story called Little Red Hot. We made a problem/solution chart for Little Red.  The problem was the wolf (Senor Lobo) was trying to eat them. The solution is that Little Red fed him some red hot chili pie and he shot right out of the roof of the house. Then Little Red and Grandma ate the pie.

We got a little bag of blue and yellow jelly beans for World Down Syndrome Day. Those are the colours for the Down Syndrome Association.  We learned that everyone is different and we all need acceptance.  We ROCKED our socks!

What a mess!

Oh, Paddy O'Flannigan - what a mess you made!

When we walked in this morning, the leprechauns had set off our traps! The teacher was locked out of the classroom and only opened the door when we got here! The leprechaun had footprints everywhere....Our room was so messy and we thought we had caught the leprechaun but we did not. He even moved our shoes to different places! He wrote us a note and his name was Paddy O'Flannigan.

We are playing Nutrition Bingo. Ask me what I need for a bingo. We need meat, fruit, veggies and grains for a bingo. We are learning about the importance of healthy eating so it gives us energy, make our bones grow and keeps us healthy!

Tomorrow is World Down Syndrome Day. Wear crazy socks!!!!

Leprechauns and me Lucky Charms!

The traps are set!

Will we catch one?

The Lucky Charm Challenge!

 

Our traps are set!  We are hoping to catch a WHOLE class of leprechauns and then we could teach them to read!  We can't wait until Monday!

Today, we had to count a box of Lucky Charms marshmallows.  There were many classes in Canada and the US that did this challenge.  Check it out at the Lucky Charms challenge ! Our challenge was to see if the 4 leaf clover had the most marshmallows.  There were more hourglasses.

We got to see the Rube Goldberg machines from the 3/4 class - they were COOL!  Ask me what they did!

Building Things

We began our Building Things unit.  Our challenge was to build our name with Lego. Some people had a hard time building their name with Lego. Ask me what 'engineer' means! We were engineers today.
We are writing about our community High River and we played basketball.
We are bringing home a special reading. You can listen to it using a QR code!  We are also bringing home our 'How To' books and it has a rubric attached to it! Let's talk about my writing!

We are safe!

We had a lockdown today. We had to be very quiet. It is important to be quiet so that it looks like no one is in the room.  The school's job is to be quiet, VERY quickly. It was a PRACTICE lockdown! We did great so we got a sucker!

We are working on numbers to 100 by skip counting by 1s, 2s, 5s, and 10s.  We are also practicing our doubles.  We finished our 'How To' books.  They are written like a book.We have been practicing our reading, too.