Week 20 ( Feb 5-9th)

 Happy Winter Walk Week!

We had a great time on Wednesday morning with our grade 6 buddies, walking in our 'winter wonderland' outside around the block.


In literacy this week, we continued writing our descriptive paragraph about our animals.  Our focus this week was on varying our sentences starters by using 'fact facts starters'. We also talked about organizing our sentences to keep each big idea together.  In our word work, we learned about the two different sounds, 'oo' make and created a word chain linking the beginning, middle and ending sounds.


In math this week, we continued our work with subtraction problems.  We focused on how to solve problems with regrouping the tens to make enough ones to subtract.  First, we used the base ten blocks, then we drew pictures to represent the regrouping using our place value mats, and then we used numbers to show our regrouping.  We also completed our addition quiz on Wednesday.


In Science this week, we began our new unit on Energy.  We focused on sound energy and completed some fun experiments this week.  We made sprinkles dance with vibrations and water bubble with a tuning fork.  




Looking Ahead to Next Week:

1. In Literacy, we will finish our non-fiction writing and draw a diagram of our animal.

2. In math, we will continue to explore how to use regrouping in subtraction problems.

3. In Science, we will learn more about pitch, volume and duration in sound energy.

Important Reminders & Upcoming Events:

1. Library Day - Thursdays!

2. Continue with Home Reading - READO!!

3. Healthy Hunger lunches - please sign up on-line 5 Days before

4. Valentine's Day Activities on Wednesday - see letter that came home on Wednesday

5. No School Thursday & Friday next week, as well as Monday, February 19th.

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