November 16th - 19th

Hello room 17 and I hope you have had a wonderful long weekend! A couple of reminders to wear formal uniforms on Monday and also to make sure you have appropriate running shoes for Physical Education classes, which because of the weather getting colder, are sometimes being held inside the gym. If is just unsafe to wear black shoes if they are dress shoes and not multipurpose shoes.

This week, we have been focusing our writing on descriptive writing of superheroes. As a class, we created a walking story about Superman and then later in the week, the students had to pick their own superhero and explain their characteristics, what their super powers were, what their costume is and how do people feel about them. We have also been working on doing some of our good copy writing on the computers and using Google Drive to input our writing pieces with a picture inserted as well.  

In Mathematics, we are still looking at place value and how to add 2 digit numbers together. Students have also continued to explore increasing patterns both in shapes and also in numbers and work on seeing the patterns when we increase our numbers by either 5's or 10's.  Students also had a chance to make a picture graph about our favourite insects. I believe that butterflies won easily!

In Science, we have wrapped up our unit on Small Crawling and Flying animals and students will be looking at Magnetism next. We will explore the various types of magnets and test to see if objects are magnetic or not and the many ways we use magnets each and every day at home and school.

In Social Studies, the students continue to explore life in Iqaluit and what types of jobs are available in this northern Canadian community as well as what kinds of goods they can produce there. Students were also made aware of the high cost of groceries in Iqaluit as goods must either be flown to Iqaluit in the winter months or come by boat which adds to the cost of each item. We will begin to explore the eastern community of Meteghan which is located in the province of Nova Scotia.

That's a quick summary of the week at school and I hope you have a wonderful Sunday and see everyone tomorrow morning at school!