This Month's Reward: Sidewalk Chalk!

When we have amazing days of listening, teamwork and following our classroom routines we earn stars! Five stars means we've earned our reward. Today we earned some time to put our creativity to work with the help of some sidewalk chalk.

Inventions!

We watched an engaging commercial on a product called 'Slushy Magic'. After seeing it, everyone wanted to buy one! How did the commercial do it?! We made a list of all the creative strategies we noticed. Next we made our very own invention from waffle tacos to homework robots. Groups planned out their commercial with the goal of persuading their classmates to purchase their invention. Once our inventions have come to life we'll be using Adobe Spark to create our commercials!

Zumba

What a great way to learn some fun dance moves!

Stone Soup Anyone?

We are moving through our Procedural Writing unit and we're now exploring recipes! Groups have browsed some fun Disney recipes with the goal of noticing the different parts of a recipe. Today we read 'Stone Soup' by Marcia Brown. After we talked about the lesson of the story we started writing our very own recipe for Stone Soup. We made sure we had all the parts a recipe needs.

Thank You Jen Aranyi!

We've been exploring Instagram in our latest Media unit. We stumbled across some amazing art by Jen Aranyi. We noticed her style included geometric shapes, bold water colour blending and white space to really make her bold colours pop.

Milk Bag Mats!

We're weaving milk bag mats! We couldn't think of a better way to carry out the Catholic Graduate Expectation: A Discerning Believer. We brainstormed ways we could celebrate God through our actions in the community and we landed on making these mats. Many lunch hours and many, many milk bags later we almost have our first mat completed!

Aha! We Discovered Arrays!

Today one of our Grade 2 and 3 groups realized they could use rows of tiles to figure out the answer to 9x9. We later learned we could call what they made an array. This group went on in search of a shortcut to count all these tiles. They made groups of 10 and used some fantastic skip counting!