November 25th - November 28th

November 25th  - November 28th

Please remember that Monday is our class field trip to the Saddletown Library through the It's a Crime Not to Read program.
Also Mr. Katchur has asked that all of the students in Room 8 practice for the assembly. There is a link to the video on last weeks blog post.

This week we started our newest class novel, Mr. Gum and the Goblins. It is a quest story that uses humour, odd smilies and creative author techniques to make the story interesting. We will be focusing on the roles of text analyzing and visualizing to build our comprehension skills while reading this story.

In Writing, Social Studies and Science, we continued to learn about taking notes. We learned about taking web notes. On Thursday we practiced using web notes along with sketch notes as we learned about some problems that waste is causing in our world. As we watched two videos, Flooding in Venice and The Air in Delhi we discovered how human actions are impacting the lives of other people. 

 .  In Math, we had a quiz on Wednesday to see how we have been doing learning about strategies to help us solve addition problems. There were two problems and we needed to use two different strategies to answer the problem and check to see if our answer was correct. Later in the week we explored two step word problems. These are problems where we had to solve one part of the problem and then use that answer to solve a second part of the problem. We also looked at number patterns where there is more than just one change.




During Physical Education we were playing games of Handball. We we focusing on proper throwing and catching technique as well as moving into open spaces and playing defense. Like all Physical Education games our main focus was on teamwork, fair play, cooperation.

Our Art drawing this week was to create a character from our new class novel Mr. Gum and the Goblins. One of the characters is a gingerbread man named Alun Taylor. We followed along with an artist. Then we added our own creativity to make the illustration our own. Finally, we gave positive as well as constructive feedback to our peers. Here are some of our illustrations.