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January 14th- 18th

January 14- 18

This week we started playing the recorder with Mr. Katchur. We learned how to play the B note. We started to learn about the 5 rules for playing the recorder. We needed to remember the Tim Horton's fingers, where we press hard enough that we make little donuts on our fingers.

Earlier in the week we began to learn about Canada in Social Studies. We started by writing down everything that we knew about Canada already. Next we brainstormed questions that we could use to help our research of geographic features. The next day we got into partners and we used google to help us research the answers and put the information onto mind maps.

In Math we started to look at multiplication think boards. We can use this to help us solve harder multiplication problems. We learned five different ways that we can use to solve multiplications problems so we pick the strategy we like best.

During Physical Education we started a new unit about badminton. First we learned how to serve. Next we practiced passing back and forth with our partners. It was hard for some of us to remember to hit the birdie up and not to smash it into the floor, like we are mad.

At the start of this week Mr. Pressey had us pick a poem from a bunch of Shel Silverstein poems scattered around the class. We got to take them home to practice them and we even had some time in class. On Friday we got to perform our poems in front of the class.

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