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.