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. 

Parent Pipeline: Nonfiction Text Features

 Our class is reading Informational, Nonfiction texts in our literacy groups. We are exploring Nonfiction text features & examining how they help us understand the content and summarize it. Read the Parent Pipeline to see how you can support your child at home with this strategy! 

Book Fair Link!

 

Time to Shop! 

Dear families,

It’s here! Our school’s Scholastic Virtual Book Fair has begun! Our very own shopping site will be open from Monday, November 22nd – Sunday, November 28th

Experience the joy of a Book Fair online by joining us at our Virtual Family Event! Make your favourite snacks, and come together as a family to view the fun, exciting and inspiring titles by clicking the link below:

https://virtualbookfairs.scholastic.ca/pages/5163640

Share this link with Grandparents, too! Extended family can participate in the Virtual Book Fair from the comfort of home.

Remember, all purchases benefit our school and earn Rewards that can be redeemed for books and Education Resources for our school’s classrooms and library.

Thank you for participating in our

Scholastic Virtual Book Fair!

Happy Reading! 

November 15 - 19

 UPCOMING DATES: 

• Thursday, November 24th: Parent Conferences in the evening 
• Friday, November 25th: NO SCHOOL FOR STUDENTS - Parent Conferences 
• Nov 22 - 28th LBS Virtual Book Fair! 

WRITING: Summarizing 

• Noah: a summary is retelling information that you learned in a shorter way. 
• Rhea: summaries need a main idea. You can find the main idea by reading, annotating and thinking about why the author wrote their book/article/script/poster/etc. 

INQUIRY: Grade 4/5 Fundraiser!!!

• Avarie: Grade 4/5's are fundraising money to donate to #TEAMSEAS! We will be collecting refundable items in blue bins at our school to bring to the bottle depot and donate to Mr. Beast and Mark Rober's #TEAMSEAS campaign. 
• Quincy: we made summaries about the campaign that we will post around the school to get all of the other kids attention to donate to our cause. 

MATH: Patterns 

• Mulan: Early this week we did a pattern pre-assessment to show how much we already know about patterns. 
• Mia: we did a Frayer Model to learn about patterns. We found out the definition, characteristics of patterns, and gave examples and non-examples of patterns. Look at the poster below! 

Book Fair!

 

SAVE THE DATE!

Dear families,

Our school’s Scholastic Virtual Book Fair will begin next week! Our very own shopping site will be open from Monday, November 22nd – Sunday, November 28th

Experience the joy of a Book Fair online by joining us at our Virtual Family Event! Make your favourite snacks, and come together as a family to view the fun, exciting and inspiring titles. A link will be sent out on Monday the 22^nd.

Share this link with Grandparents, too! Extended family can participate in the Virtual Book Fair from the comfort of home.

Remember, all purchases benefit our school and earn Rewards that can be redeemed for books and Education Resources for our school’s classrooms and library.

Thank you for participating in ourScholastic Virtual Book Fair!

Happy Reading! :)