November 23rd - 27th

Hello and Happy Friday to one and all! It has been another busy week of learning and the students of room 17 were awesome this week! Lots of hard work and focus as we head into the last three weeks before winter break.

In Writing, we looked at creating our own monsters and writing descriptive details about what they looked like, how do they act, what do people think of them and try to include at least one or two similes to compare our monsters to others.  We keep discussing the importance of putting lots of details, triple scoop words and similes to create clear pictures in the mind of our readers.

In Math, we continue to explore number sense and also creating bar graphs to show our room's favourite colour choices. We continue to look at numbers and different ways to represent them and how to count on in addition by adding 5's or 10's to our 2-digit numbers.

In Science, we have started to look at Magnetism and the many properties of magnets including what makes an object magnetic or not and the definitions of attract and repel when putting two magnets together with each other.  Moving on, we will look at more characteristics of magnets and where we find magnets in our everyday lives. 

In Social Studies, we have started to explore the village of Meteghan, how to get there, what province it is located in and what we should bring with us to deal with the weather we would experience at this time of the year. Next we will learn about the early settlers of this area and the influence that the Acadian people brought to this area of eastern Canada.

I hope you have a wonderful weekend and see everyone in formal uniform on Monday!