Monday May 7th

Notices :

Class photo Day is Friday

Food For Fun is this Friday

I am updating the blog throughout the day so you can follow our progress as it happens.  Photo's will be added later tonight from home.

I hope you had time to get out and see the super moon when it was full this weekend.  It looked 40% larger and 15% brighter as it was at it's closest orbit to the earth for the year. 

We began the week with our Weekly spelling words.  This weeks words represent time.  The words are Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday, January, February, July, August, September, November, month, year, holiday, autumn, season, calendar, second, minute, December, Friday
The students were given the pretest and a list of words for their black spelling duo-tang which they should bring home if they do not finish it during spelling time today.

 

After recess the class went to music where they continued to polish the two recorder songs they are going to present at the assembly on Wed. May 30 at 2:00.  The class also sang happy birthday to "S."  After music the students worked in groups to create a pictograph.  They had to pick a topic, make a tally sheet, canvas all the students in the class then create a pictograph of the information.  They worked well in the groups they picked themselves.  Topics were favorite TV show, favorite Greek Hero, favorite pizza, favorite cartoon, favorite animal. 

After lunch the class had choir.  Those students not in choir listened to and did a one page report on the band Kansas a 70's progressive rock powerhouse that still has huge popularity in America and Europe.

After choir our class took part in the Saanich Emergency planning class in the gym.  Students were given an emergency bag to take home.  The students are show you the contents of the bag and explain to you it's contents. (there are items like a radio and non-perishable food stuff that are not in the kit and are your responsibility to put into the kit to make it truly a full emergency kit)

In socials we talked about and did a one page report on How Canada got it's name.  Many people thought it came from  the First nations word Kanata which means village, or kanatak which means sacred place or from the Spanish word for 'Aca nada' which means "here is nothing" as they did not find gold in Canada.  The students had to write about which one they thought was the actual reason that this country was called Canada.