Monday January 27 - Thursday January 30

Thursday 
- Today we did some paragraph writing all about our character. Ask you child to tell you about their interesting character!
- Still continuing practicing subtraction with 3 digits - used that skill to solve some riddles
- Had our final day of gratitude!
- Continued an art project with our buddies
Ski Days are:
Thurs. Feb 6
Tues. Feb 18
Thurs. Feb 20
Tues. Feb 25

No School tomorrow!! Staff PD Day

Wednesday 
- Today we discussed the story element of "character". What it means and what makes a character exciting/engaging
- Students began brainstorming and documenting ideas on a character that they would eventually like to write about (thinking about character traits, their background, their interests, etc.)
- Continued working on 3 digit subtraction.
- Finished reading Via's perspective today in Wonder, next we will be moving onto Summer's perspective. (it is very interesting to notice how the same event is viewed from different characters perspectives so far)
- Had time to continue buffalo research in Social Studies (we are getting close to finishing)
- HEADS UP - NEXT THURSDAY IS OUR FIRST DAY OF SKIING/SNOWBOARDING
MORE INFO TO FOLLOW ON HOW THAT DAY WILL LOOK!
We are still looking for volunteers for 3 of the 4 ski days if you are available to come join us for a fun day on the slopes!!


Tuesday 
- Brainstormed character traits and what we know about Via in Wonder
- Started subtraction with 3 digit numerals
- Had 4 new science centre involving light and using terms like reflection, refraction, optical devices and more!

Monday
- Had a great guest speaker today! Ask your child her special connection to our class and what she taught us about!
- Started she more work on subtraction!
- Had gym with Mr. J
- Ms. Jonasson was away this afternoon

Monday January 20th - Friday January 24

Monday
- We started up literacy stations again - first time in the new year! Each student completed two stations
- Read a little bit of Wonder, ask how Auggie's first day of school went
- Continued working on addition with 3 and now 4 digit numerals
- Worked on the concept of shadow and examined how moving a light source will change the shadows length
- We will be doing some science experiments OUTSIDE tomorrow, so please make sure to dress for the weather

Tuesday
- Today we made our own sundials and went out to track the shadow of a pencil crayon on a paper plate throughout the day (morning, mid day and afternoon)
- Completed the next two literacy stations
- Missed gratitude journals yesterday, so did two responses today
- Added some scientific terms to our glossary (sundial, eye, nearsighted, far sighted)
- Read some more of Wonder
Please note - tomorrow we have the mobile escape room FIRST THING - please try to be on time so you do not miss out on this awesome experience!! 

Wednesday
- Had the best time with the mobile escape room - there were four different activities - get your child to explain them all to you and which one they liked best!!
- Worked on addition with 4 digit numerals
- Got to explore the science fair
- Continued working on Social Studies research from the Glenbow museum
- Watched a Magic School Bus video about light

Thursday
- Finished our literacy stations
- Continued practicing 4 digit addition
- Started reading from Via's perspective in Wonder

Friday
- Today we had music
- did our next gratitude reflection
- We had catch up research time for Social Studies
- Met with our buddies and made some fun crafts for Chinese New Year
- Had a school wide math challenge
Happy Weekend!!

Monday January 13 - Friday January 17

Friday
- Lots of our students today had auditions today for the opera!
- Reviewed the primary colours of light! Ms. Jonasson made a mistake yesterday! The primary colours of light are green, blue and red
- We got to move around in the gym today with Mr. J
- Had buddies!! Ask what we did with our little buddies

Thursday
- Our BLUE week continues. We have been making sure we take lots of brain breaks and opportunities to move around!
- We were so fortunate to have Dr. Lori Jaffray who is an optometrist and Grade Four parent in to talk to us about how our eyes work and how we can take care of our eyes. Ask your child what they learned, how they can keep their eyes safe and some other interesting hands on opportunities we had!
- We discussed light spectrum and how white light is broken up. We also learned about how reflection works and helps us to see colour!
- Students also reviewed primary and secondary colors

Wednesday
- "When given the choice between being right and being kind, choose kind." We read this quote/precept in Wonder today and reflected in our writing journal what it means to us and why we think it is an important quote to our story
- Day 7 Gratitude - Something in our rooms we are grateful for
- Did an experiment with the terms opaque, transparent and translucent
- We defined the terms in our science glossary and added an object representing each of the terms

Tuesday 
- Further examined the character of Auggie (his feelings, thoughts, actions, likes, dislikes, what others think about him)
- Completed Day 6 of Gratitude - a subject in school we are grateful to learn
- Continued reviewing rounding and how to use rounding to help us with addition
- Some students have some extra practice to review this concept and be more comfortable and confident in their rounding skills
- Ms. Jonasson was away this afternoon


Monday
- We had 8 students away today!
- We read some more of Wonder and discussed some character traits that describe August
- Reviewed that addition strategy of estimating and rounding
- Continued buffalo research
- Learned some classroom terms in French

Tuesday January 7 - Friday January 10

Thursday
- Did a free writing about what we know so far about the main character in Wonder, Auggie
- Practiced some subtraction equations
- Brainstormed a T-chart of examples of artificial and natural light
- Continued doing research and note taking from the Glenbow museum website

Wednesday
- Today we wrote about some goals for 2020, where we want to go, what we want to do, what we want to read, something we can improve on
- We officially started our novel Wonder ask me what characters we have met and what has happened in the story so far...
- We continued reviewing addition strategies and practiced some addition equations
- We started some research using Glenbow museum website of the First Nations' Peoples of Alberta



Tuesday
- Welcome back! Hope everyone had a restful and joyful winter break!
- Today we started off by writing about our winter break - did some snap shot pictures and some paragraph writing
- Started a gratitude log. We will be doing this throughout January. Today - something that we are grateful to eat
- Also started a new novel study Wonder if you have this novel at home and wish to bring it in that is "wonderful" Today we just started with the story book We are all Wonders and will start the novel tomorrow
- Reviewed some addition strategies we know. We will be working on 4 digit addition and subtraction this coming month
- Kicked off our new science unit Light and Shadow we watched a video with kids who use light to put on an amazing show, did a title page for this unit and began a glossary of key words they will need to know throughout this unit
- light
- natural light
- artificial light
- opaque objects
- shadow