A yummy end to the week!

We were able to start presenting our projects on weather this week! It was so fun to see everyone's research and hard work! We also managed to finish up our amazing art project (which are posted on Artsonia). And today, Chantal brought in brownies to celebrate "chocolate cake day", which is tomorrow! It was a delicious way to end our week!

Here is Cami's TWAS from her Kidblog account:

MONDAY

on Monday we had art and we talked about an art project originally created by Paul Klee and he worked with triangles, squares, and some other shapes and we made a city inspired by one of his pieces of art. To make the project we used pencil, sharpie, a stencil or ruler, and water color paint! the first step was to make your building with a ruler/stencil and a pencil and make pretty square and triangle designs and some of your own to make it unique and make a circle somewhere above. The second step was to take a permanent marker or sharpie and trace your pencil lines and after the marker dries you erase the pencil lines. After the third step is to paint the sky and castle/buildings with the paint (we kept our castle and sky 2 different tones <cool> <warm> colors.) Then we took permanent marker/sharpie and went over the lines that were there to make sure they weren't colored over or faded... and we are done. The artist calls the piece "castle and sun" but I made mine castle and moon. 

TUESDAY

On Tuesday we had science and we were not researching about our weather topics (our science unit is weather) but we are presenting our presentations and we have 5-6 presentations everyday but I presented on Tuesday and Tuesday is the only day with 6 presentations because we did not present on Monday and we have 23 students in the class so if you divide it by 4 you get groups of five and one left over and you cant divide a presentation so on Tuesday we have 6. I presented about tornados and what tornados do, cause, how they develop, some interesting facts, and more! On Tuesday we also had BHS and my favorite books to read are mockingbird, it is very interesting and if I could give a rating for how much I like it I would give it an A+.

WEDNESDAY

On Wednesday we had French and we had a paper with boxes including questions in French and we went around the class asking a whole bunch of people the questions and depending on if they said yes or no (in French) I would fill their name in the box and I did not finish so I had to work on it on another day. We also had extra recess earned by Maxx!!! and I enjoyed extra time outside and I pretty much stayed on the swings because they are so much fun!!!

THURSDAY

On Thursday we had time to finish up work we have not yet finished and I got to finish my Wednesday work so I quickly asked a few more people some French questions and I was FINALLY DONE!!! On Thursday we also had math and we talked about patterning and I got all the question right and I was really proud of myself and I know patterns are important because its helpful to predict what's going to come next and etc.

FRIDAY 

Today is Friday and today was chocolate cake day and Chantal brought brownies... its pretty much a type of cake to me!!! the brownies were so good with a slight sprinkle of sprinkles. Today we also had TWAS and that is what I'm doing right now and I'm very happy you checked out this weeks TWAS and that will rap up This Week At School. 

Terrific TWAS

We've had a busy week of wrapping up our science research projects. I'm really excited for the students to present them next week! We finished our graphing unit in math with a pop quiz and started patterning. Today, we worked on a beautiful art job, modeled after artist Paul Klee. It's taking loads of patience, but I know the end result will be worth it!

Here is Sawyer's TWAS from his Kidblog account:

Math: pictographs

Monday- We did science research I am researching tsunamis  I am almost done my diorama and I finished my powerpoint . We also had gym we are doing gymnastics in gym right now it is pretty easy.

Tuesday- we did a reading strategy it was when you make connections to the book you get more interested to the book. we did BHS reads I am reading a new book called heart of a champion it is a MYRCA club book it is super interning its about a kid whos brother is a really good baseball player and he wants to be one to but he has a problem with his heart.

Word Work Wednesday

Wednesday- we had word work Wednesday where we have to try to spell word with random letters the 11 letter word was destruction. we also did a thing where you had to say what good writer's would do we did it in a group my group was Emily, Emma, Dax and Brennen.

Thursday- we did math it was patterning it was easy. We also had zones of regulation we learnt about  we you think other would thinking when you get in the zones

Friday- we had book buddies we were reading the whole time. We also did a writing prompt it was cool and fun I did 2 of them. 

Paul Klee inspired art on Friday!

Reading takes Flight contest with the Winnipeg Jets!

Well, it's that time of the year when the Winnipeg Jets hosts a contest for students to win a visit to their classroom from a player! It's perfect timing with "I LOVE to read month" just around the corner. Grab a parent and click on the link to enter the contest until January 26th.

P. S. . . .You'll need to share your top 5 reasons why you think a player should visit Room 31.

I'm crossing my fingers!  :)


ENTER NOW!!

Hello 2018!

Wow! We're so happy that the week didn't start out as cold as it's ending! Unfortunately, we've had indoor recesses and bussing for the last 2 days. It's been awesome getting back into the routine of school and hearing all about the holidays. Before Christmas, we had worked really hard on our paper blogs. This week, we were able to do the final step: commenting. And then we got to try out Kidblog for the first time on Thursday! Notes went home with information for families about joining Kidblog to allow posts to be seen. Please click HERE for the link. From now on, students will post their weekly TWAS write-ups every Friday. We will also use the blog as a way of sharing other learning experiences from Room 31. So exciting!

Here is Haylee's first TWAS from her Kidblog account:

On Monday we did 3-2-1 sharing about our Christmas holidays. What you had to do was share 3 fun facts, 2 things you will miss about the holidays, (now that they are over) and 1 thing that surprised you. I shared about how I got an iPod, a drone and MUCH more! I also shared about how I would miss staying up late! Another thing we did on Monday was Library. I took out a book called "The thing about jelly fish" It looks like it is a good book.

On Tuesday we did a new art project. We made 2018 firework art!  What you had to do first was draw and cut out bubble numbers for stencils. The numbers you had to do were 2, 0, 1, and 8 since it is now 2018! Then we put tape on the back of each number and then stuck them on to a piece of blue paper. To make the fireworks we used chalk pastel of two different colors for each number. All you had to do was make little lines from your stencil. so the numbers would stand out. Then we took the tape off and added sharpie! Another thing we did was BHS reads. I am reading a book called OCDaniel. It is really good

On Wednesday we did paper blog commenting. What we did first was put our paper blogs on our desk. Then we walked around the classroom and read each others paper blogs and wrote comments on sticky notes. I got 4 comments. Another thing we did on Wednesday was science research on the laptops. We are researching different kinds of Weather disasters. I am researching about Droughts.

On Thursday we helped our little buddies log on to the laptops. It was so cute! We also got to play math games with them! I am with a boy named carter in kindergarten and with Emily in grade 5. Another thing we did was our Kid blog intro! We learned how to log on make an avatar and type our first post!

On Friday/today we did our first TWAS on kid blog!/The post I am doing now! I was so excited to type up my 2nd post! Another thing we are doing is presenting our French scripts! My partner is Ciera!