Monday September 30 - Friday October 4

Friday 
- Today is Mental Health Friday we are preparing for our literacy night by using mindfulness in our drawing of Lighthouses
- Met with our buddies and discussed different ways to be mindful
- did some catch up work
- it was a nice, calm, peaceful day
Enjoy your weekend!

Thursday
- Finished our final literacy rotations for the week
- Continued learning about reading time on analog clocks (where the hour hand should be, where the minute hand should be, that it can also be called "half past)
- practiced our music skills on the xylophone
- did some word work with dolche words and grade four level words on whiteboards
- students are working on finishing their geometry art project and some have begun to conference with Ms. Jonasson and show off their shape knowledge and understanding
- Today our pictures went home - photo orders are due by Oct 11

Wednesday
- Continued with literacy stations - we have a new station this week - ask me what it is and what topic we are learning about in that stations (hint, it has to do with what we are learning about in Science)
- Reviewed clocks and interacted with our clocks in our math books and showed our understanding in our duotangs
- Continued working on throwing and catching in gym with Mr. J
- Reviewed our social studies terms from Monday and recorded the definitions in our Social Studies duo tangs so we can refer to the terms throughout the year
- Learned a new simple machine and got to define it and experiment and play with it in small groups

Tuesday 
- We were so lucky to have a mom from our class in who is a cartographer to teach us all about maps and some of her work with maps - big thank you to Courtney for your expertise, the students loved it
- Started a new topic in Math - Time, ask me what an analog clock is and how many hours are in a day

Monday
- We wrote about our novel study City of Ember we were asked to review what has happened so far and make some predictions as to what we think will happen next!
- Continued our geometry art project - we will be transferring our good copies onto card stock later this week!
- Did a check in for social studies - we are reviewing some terms such as region, landforms, non-fiction, identity, geography, natural resources and renewable resources

Save the Date!! Literacy Night is coming up!