Merry Christmas!

 

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year Room 12 Families! 

I hope you have the most wonderful holiday filled with rest, relaxation, and huge hugs with family and friends. Our class enjoyed a week filled with Christmas activities - math, literacy and science galore! Read about our week below :) 

To complete the Rock Candy Crystal experiment, please watch the video below! I hope it works! 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpOU0Fo7QfU 

Holiday Light Drive

 

Grade 4/5 students are teaming up with Barewire Recycling's Holiday Light Drive! 

If you've got a drawer full of old cords that aren't being used, or Christmas lights that aren't working this holiday, please send them to school in the new year with your child to be recycled. 

December 6-10

UPCOMING DATES: 

• Thursday, December 16th: Ugly Christmas Sweater Day 
• Friday, December 17th: PJ Day & Last Day of School 
• Monday - Thursday: Grade 4 & 5 Bottle Drive 
• Bring bags of bottles to school for us to donate to #TEAMSEAS. 
• Bottles must be cleaned out 
• Bottles must be school appropriate
• Pop, juice, milk, yogurt, water, etc. 
• Our class goal is to bring more than 240 refundable items (10 or more each) 

WRITING 

• Our class began Persuasive Writing - focusing on having a solid opinion that we can defend with 3 reasons and related examples. 
• We discussed Point of View and how understanding the opposite opinion and point of view can help us strengthen our evidence and examples. See what we did below! 

ART!

• Sophie: This week we started some new art where we made Ugly Christmas Sweaters! 
• Emma: We talked about what all ugly Christmas sweaters must have. Our success criteria is: 
• 3 or more colours 
• A winter/holiday theme 
• A middle focus like a drawing of something (deer, tree, hot chocolate) 
• Pattern somewhere on the sweater 
• Something special like bells, lights, tinsel 
• Optional: a Christmas joke or pun! 
  
  
• Rhea: We also made a step by step drawing of a Christmas Tree! 

SCIENCE: 

• Preston: we learned about Physical and Chemical changes/reactions. A physical reaction is when it can usually be undone and chemical is when it is hard to undo it. 
• Rhea: we tested the solubility of different things like: m&ms, toothpaste, vinegar, pepper, toilet paper, tissues, honey, syrup, rocks, and hot chocolate mix! 

MATH:

• Avery Mo: we did word problems all week in math. Some kids worked on Grinch problems that were very challenging and other kids worked on other Christmas related word problems. 
• Raahil: We listened to the story "The Elves and the Shoemakers" and then solved some story problems in charts that were about the story. We also had a Christmas word search at the end of the math problems.