Welcome to February!

We are well into the swing of things after transitioning back to me as the classroom teacher. We have had a great week back, you all have great kids!

Here is whats going on in February for us:

Science:

We are continuing on with the water systems unit that they began after Christmas. We will be having a test some time in the near future, the date is still TBA (I will post the date as we get closer to the test). We are currently working on the water table and water cycle. The students have been assigned a water cycle assignment where I have asked them to creatively come up with a way to demonstrate their knowledge of the water cycle. I have given them the option to do this project in groups of 2 or 3 or individually. This is a fun assignment as I have always seen many different ways of completing this assingment (from writing a rap, to cartoon strips to a children's storybook-- the sky is the limit).


Water cycle assignment due date : February 12th, 2018

ELA:
We just started a new unit entitled "Becoming myself". In this unit we will be exploring the characteristics that make us who we are, and what qualities build our identities. We will be starting on a novel study at the end of the month, we will be reading "The Giver". This novel study comes with two really fun projects. The kit will be arriving at the end of the month and we will be working on this throughout March.

We are also in the process of working on writing and tackling the big job of writing a good thesis statement, and what makes up a well written essay (Into, body paragraphs, conclusions are all being worked on right now)

Phys. Ed

We are working on our basketball unit and are having fun doing so!

Health:

We are lucky enough to have a SafeSHIP nurse working with us at the moment. Nurse Mackenzie has already talked about Mental Health and we are moving on to Positive Peer relationships and Drugs and Alcohol. She will also be helping out with Fully Alive when we begin that (the books should be arriving some time this week).

Art:

We are just wrapping up a paper quilling heart project for Valentine's Day. They look awesome and are on display outside of the classroom.

We will be doing some visual art in the next little while and moving into a photography unit, so if your students come home and ask to take your picture, just "say cheese"!

French:
I have taken over the french portion of the week. We are starting a new unit all about Food and Restaurants. My goal is to get them speaking and using what they are learning!

Math-
Volume Post Assessment exam - Friday February 9th

Other Notes and important dates:

Holy Cross Visit -February 8th 
We are being picked up by bus at 12:15 on Thursday and will be returning to the school at 2:45.  ( for those of you whose children play on the bball teams are are scheduled to play at 3:00 we will just be starting the games a bit later than usual.)

Valentines Day Celebrations:

In case you haven't noticed yet, this year Valentine's day and Ash Wednesday fall on the same day. Because of this we have decided to move our Valentine's day celebrations to Tuesday February 13th and keep Ash Wednesday as a day for prayer and reflection. When we discussed as a class what we would like to do Valentine's Day we settled on having a Pot Luck Lunch and some activities with our care partners in the afternoon. I put up a sign up sheet on the bulletin board and they have chosen what  they would like to bring.

I believe that is all for now, folks!

Mrs. Baron