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