Mundy

 This morning we started our day off with 7-minutes of writing. Our word to include was "capable". Claire wrote a wonderfu story about Taya's hamster, and Felix wrote about a soccer star.  They then went off to music to practice their rhythms, and then played mystery beat maker. We read a news article about the space helicopter ingenuity that one of our characters in A Rover's Story is based on. Ask me what the article was about!  Then...we of course read a abit more of the book. We started part 4!  The kids were chemists today. They conducted a few different experiments, manipulating a variable or two and making observations.  We had Makerspace with Mrs. Barden's class, and the kids had to create scenes from the novel.  Finally, we wrapped up with day with math. The kids went to "Safari Restaurant"! 

 Wow! It has been very busy!  We have welcomed a new friend to our class, his name is Felix! We are excited to have someone new join us again. This morning we studied the suffix -ible and -able. This suffix means "capable of" or "fit to".  Some of the words we studied were responsible, reliable, and variable. We brainstormed a TON more! Ask me some!  We got to play basketball games today and yesterday. We are working on TEAMWORK!  In Social Studies, we started a new research project. To prepare for this, we did some research/reading on what natural resources are, and we defined renewable and nonrenewable resources. We used this information to help us understand the natural resources in an assigned region. Ask me which region I am studying.  In math we have continued practicing regrouping with decimals, and we did a little bit of work with algebra! This will be our next unit. Science has been engaging; we are learning the Scientific method. We are using this...

We started our day off with conversation about kindness and inclusion.  We then moved into 7 minutes of writing. Ms. Mundy drew the picture prompts today. They were INCREDIBLE.  We went to gym and practiced dribbling and shooting in relay races. Ask me what BEEF stands for. We worked on some catch-up items. We recorded some reading on Flip Grid to observe our reading fluency, finished up our mystery grids and some reading comprehension tasks too.  Finally, we wrapped up with some mental health discussion. 

 This morning we had our class meeting. We had a chance to share about our weekend.  Here are 3 highlights:  1. I went to the Sandman Hotel. - Rhythm  2. I finally got my Kitsune to level 600 - max. - Mike 3. I got my new hamster, Patch. - Taya In phys. ed we are working on shooting a basketball.  The proper form is: You squat down, then you jump, and then you flick the wrist.  For a warm-up we played Pirates, and then we got to choose our own partner for shooting. 1. Noah & Mike were partners. 2. Andy and Abed were partners.  During literacy stations we worked on reading comprehension, typing and writing paragraphs. Some students got to work on their Social Studies Mystery Grid.  In math we focused on word problem key words for addition and subtraction. We are preparing for addition and subtraction decimal word problems.  ADD - combined, plus, sum, total SUBTRACT - shrink, descend, less, take away Finally, after recess we read independen...

Happy Friday! Jan. 25 = Subway Fun Lunch (orders due tomorrow)  We started our day off with a class meeting, and then moved into a new Social Studies task. The students are researching a particular region and drawing symbols to represent the shared traits (climate, landscapes and resources) and how those things affect jobs, clothing, transportation and houses.  We tracked our weather and enjoyed snack before doing a good clean-up of our classroom.  After this we headed to music!  Then we got together with all of the grade 5 students and worked on an activity based on A Rover's Story. We are into Part 3 of the book, so we stopped to do some character analysis. We focused on 4 characters from the book, sketched out what we think they look like, and then wrote down some character traits about each character. We were challenged with the task of backing up these traits with evidence from the book. For example, we know that Xander is a jokester/comedian because he cracks a...

 This morning we started with 7 minutes of writing and we had to add the word confident in our story.          Then we went to music and wrote a song and we got to practice for our song. Then we did of a summary of The rover story.  After that we caught up on a regions flipbook. Students that finished their flipbooks moved onto writing advertisements about a certain region. In math we did a catch-up on all of our decimal work.  After, in art we continued with the mountain pictures. Tomorrow there is Music Sharing in music class if you would like to play something that you have been practicing at home.

                                                             Today on January 17,2024                                                    Hello class here's the blog of the day   First we did health -Friendship  we talk about good friends that are always there when you need them. next we did   phys. ed we learned how to pass a ball to people in basketball it was cool too.  We worked on Physical Regions of Canada research and drawings, and then we met with Mrs. Barden's class for Makerspace. In Makerspace we used items in the library to create algebraic equations!  After lunch we had some time to read independently, and then we started math. We completed basic facts, reviewe...

 We started our morning with our welcome greetings for the morning, then we shared 3 things we did over the weekend.Then we lined up for gym. In gym we started off by playing a game of revenge line tag  then we practiced dribble with basketballs. Ask your child how it went.  After gym we want back to the class to eat snack and do weather tracking. Finally the weather is warming up. Sun is now setting at 5:00!  We read A Rover's Story and practiced summarizing the pages that we read.  We moved into literacy stations. Ask your child what station they completed today. After lunch we worked on a decimal number check-in. We answered different addition and subtraction questions.  When recess wrapped up, we worked on an art critique. We critiqued a famous art piece as a class, and then we critiqued some landscape art pieces individually.  

 Today we started with 7 minutes of writing. After, we played Mission impossible in P.E. When we got back we tracked our COLD weather. After snack we did some research for Social Studies. We are researching the resources found in each region, and listing the provinces and/or territories in each region. After lunch we reviewed regrouping when subtracting decimal numbers. We completed 6 word problems based on shopping! After recess we started an art project inspired by Jen Aranyi's style. 

 Today on January 10 we had a very cold breezy day which led to the weather which we marked Cloudy -18* and low temp of -28*. In the morning we did some word work by unscrambling the words NORTHERN LIGHTS SCHOOL as a reference to our school! After we had the best gym with a game called mission impossible! We had to maneuver and jump through all the equipment like jumping ropes and hoops! after snack we did some literacy stations and did new year's writing and art! The rotation 2 had us do computer stuff like vocab! We did some quick maker space and lunch which transitioned to reading! lunch and recess it was inside :(. so we did quick decimal math, focusing on subtraction with regrouping, and social studies and finished the day! -Written-Joshua Lopez :)

 This morning we kicked off the day with a word study, focusing on words with the prefix  tele .  We made connections using this information to help us gain an understanding of other words with the prefix tele.  In music we did a little name voting of a paper mascot that Claire made for the music classroom. We landed on Melody or Jellupa. After that we went over the expectations of the music room and we played a name game! We shared a little bit about our winter break, and then we started playing a game where we had to call numbers and listen for each other.  We recorded our weather and disocvered that the low temperature today is -19. BRRR. After snack we read the last chapter of Part Two in A Rover's Story. Res and Fly finally received code from NASA. They are preparing for landing!  We watched real footage of the Perseverance Rover making a safe landing on Mars.  We completed two rotations of our literacy centers. We focused on Poetry, Writing and r...