Holiday Hat Day

Just about everyone in our class dressed up in spirit the day before holiday break.

After Winter Break, our class will be furthering our skills with adding and subtracting fractions, but with unlike denominators.  This can often get tricky, but we will work hard to learn how to find a common denominator before we solve.  In science, we will begin learning about fossils.  Floor hockey, if the weather permits, will be our focus for several weeks in P.E.. In social studies, we are moving closer to the Revolutionary War, although about a month away still.  Our focus will be directed at understanding which nations were beginning to struggle over control of North America, leading us to the French and Indian War.  Feel free to build some background knowledge with your child over any of these subjects you like. 

Happy Holidays

Another amazing art lesson was conducted in our class this week.  Using the theme of Pop Art, students created a Santa masterpiece. 

In music, students are currently learning the basics of the violin, and appear to really enjoy it.

A short holiday celebration will occur in our room on Friday, from 2:15-3:00.  A sign up for treats has been posted outside of our classroom.  Have a festive holiday season!

Joyful Noise

This week we finished up our focus on poetry.  The students typed up their original, two or three-person Joyful Noise poems in computer lab and then read them to the class with partners.  The poems turned out wonderful!  Such a creative class.

We will be finishing up our science unit on heredity and traits this week.  Next week we have a guest speaker from Hamilton Solar speaking to the class about solar energy.  In math we will be moving to adding and subtracting fractions.  For next week, we will only focus on adding and subtracting fractions with like denominators.  After Winter Break we will begin finding common denominators and adding unlike fractions.  Feel free to start discussing these concepts with your child.  The unlike fractions often cause some difficulties with some students.

We will have a holiday part December 17th at 2:15.  A sign up sheet for treats should be posted soon by our door.  Feel free to attend if you like.

Many shipments of PE and science equipment have come to our room lately...must be the time of year, holiday season and all.  Actually, I'd like to thank all of you who have cashed in your BING points.  Here is what our classroom ended up receiving from all of that: hockey sticks, fossil packs, 4 digital scales, 20 dictionaries, 6 soft dodge balls, and safety glasses!