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

Monday December 16 - Thursday December 19

Wednesday
- Had caroling today and had a guest performance
- We have been working so hard on all our projects so we got to watch a movie as a treat!
- Had our amazing toy fair - students and staff were blown away by our amazing toys! Congratulations to everyone on a job well done
- Tomorrow we will celebrate with our buddies, reminder to please bring a snack if you can

Tuesday
- Had time to finish up our social studies and science projects and review our rubrics for the projects.
Our toy fair is tomorrow afternoon
- Finished some math with fractions and started a new logic mystery puzzle
- Got to hear Sam Effah speak! He was very inspiring and has some incredible stories

- Practiced explaining our toy for the toy fair tomorrow!
Reminder that we are doing a winter party with buddies Thursday. If you can please bring a snack for us and the buddies
Tomorrow is also sleepy Santa - PJs, Christmas sweaters or anything else festive are welcome!
We will also be doing a movie with Mrs. Campbell's class - feel free to bring an extra snack in your lunch bag tomorrow for the movie


Monday
- Had a Christmas Scavenger hunt around the school - ask your child one interesting fact that they learned
- Did our Christmas Logic puzzle
- Had parachute in gym with Mr. J
- Did some graphing in math
- Wrote to Sam Effah, he is a former Hawkwood School who is now an Olympian and runner up on Amazing Race Canada. He is coming into Hawkwood School tomorrow to share his story!
- Final day to work on our toys!
Sleepy Santa/PJ day is Wednesday!!

Monday December 9 - Friday December 12

Friday 
- Half of us finished our toys today!
- Worked on a literacy activity with our little buddies - we were trying to solve an Elf on the Shelf mystery!
Our buddies spoiled us with bringing snacks again! If possible, please bring in snacks next Thursday for our two classes (please note that both classes have peanut allergies)
- Update - due to some conflicts, our toy fair will just be running December 18 @1:30 - 3:30
We are still collecting items and cash donations for the Calgary Food Bank

Enjoy your weekend! 

Thursday
- We are still working towards completing our Alberta Regions Poster! Several of us finished today!
- Worked with Mrs. Harms on a rubric we can use to assess how we solve word problems in math and did another word problem with her
- Got to work with the composer again in music with Mrs. Vroom's class
- Starting our procedural writing for how to build our toy and had some more building time



Wednesday
- Continued working on our Social Studies poster - they are looking great and will be coming home hopefully before winter break!
- Had our last day of inline skating! 😞
- Worked on some review of place value and base ten blocks with a holiday theme
- Had some time to catch up on work and build some more! It looks like Santa's workshop in our classroom

Tuesday
- Today we were given more time to work on our posters for our Social studies project
- We enjoyed our second day of inline skating with coach C.
- Did some math work with division facts (we discussed that brushing up on our multiplication and division facts over the winter break would be a great idea as we will be diving into these concepts in January)
- Got to build some more of our toy FYI toy fair is next week - December 18 @1:30 - 3:30 and December 19 @ 11:00 - 12:00 Please feel free to stop in to see our toys


Monday
- Continued our Social Studies Posters
- Had inline skating! If you forgot your helmet today, please bring one tomorrow
- Helped our buddies research their Calgary landmark
- Worked on learning some French holiday words and made a BINGO sheet
FYI a form was sent home today for our ski days in the New Year. Please complete and return ASAP
- If you ordered from Mixing Spoons please see the image below of what times to pick up your orders!

Monday December 2 - Thursday December 5

Thursday
- Worked on gathering our research for our Social Studies poster
- Had our second presentation from Ms. Vanessa from CPAWS
- Learned about Head Smashed in Buffalo jump - ask your child a fact they learned about this historic site
- Had another opportunity to build our toy
- Reminder - no school tomorrow - PD day for teachers
The picture below was from our CPAWS presentation - ask what types of waste makes our water polluted and how we can help

WE ARE COLLECTING NON PERISHABLE FOOD ITEMS AND CASH DONATIONS FOR THE CALGARY FOOD BANK 

See you Monday!! 

Wednesday
- Learned about our new Social Studies project about the regions of Alberta - ask your child what region their project is on
- Did some math work with multiplication and the distributive property of multiplication as a review from last year
- Read a book about Buffalo facts and did some research from our Fort Calgary kit
- Had some more time to build our toy

Tuesday
- Continued exploring our buffalo kit from Heritage Park and some of it's historical artifacts - as of today we have got to explore and examine 6 artifacts
- Worked with Mrs. Harms in math again on problem solving and different strategies we can use and what to do if/when we get stuck
- Had CPAWS in to do a presentation in the afternoon, they will be in one more time this week to work with us - check out their website and discuss ways that we can help take better care of our planet and it's water
- had time to build our Toys!

Monday
- Had some laptop time to finish our Alberta Research and our OREO writing
- Got to explore a Buffalo Kit from Fort Calgary and some special artifacts about Alberta's history. We will be working with this kit for the next two weeks
- Mrs. Campbell and Ms. Jonasson did a lesson on making the perfect WOWbutter and Jelly sandwiches focusing on instructional writing - ask your child how the lesson went!