November 30th - December 3rd

Happy Friday to all the students of Room 17! I hope that you will all be able to get outside this weekend and enjoy some unseasonably warm weather activities!

In Writing, we focused on descriptive writing about a "elf" friend of ours. The students keep working on using descriptive language that paints a picture for the reader through the use of Triple Scoop adjectives, similes and their 6 senses to describe the elf.  Next week, we will start to create a writing piece about someone special to the students.

In Math, we continue to explore adding two digit numbers and using our hundreds chart to help us when adding 10 to a number (next number down in the column) or adding ones (move to the right in the row of numbers). Students are still looking at various ways to represent a number and building up their number sense to see patterns when skip counting by 2's, 5's and 10's.  

In Science, we are looking at various ways that magnets are used in our everyday lives at home and in the world of medicine with an MRI machine and its ability to take pictures of the soft tissue parts of our bodies.  We have discussed the magnet's abilities to repel or attract to other magnets based on the poles that are being put together. 

In Social Studies we are exploring the village of Meteghan in Nova Scotia and the original settlers of the area which included the Mik'maq First Nations group, the Acadians who brought their French culture to the area and the British who also influenced the region too.  We spent time practicing our French greetings and being able to talk about going lobster fishing!

A couple of reminders that Monday students need to be in the formal uniform as we will be preparing some parts for our January assembly on Responsibility.  Please remember to also look at the important dates for the rest of December and a reminder that for the first week back we will be teaching online to the students. Have a wonderful weekend and see everyone on Monday!