Numbers, Masks, Seals and Assemblies

Movember Tomorrow

Notices: 

* Pro-d Friday / No School

*Bring your Food for Fun money and forms back asap
*Tomorrow report cards come home
*Tomorrow is Movember in the class  Grow those mustaches long and proud to support those with cancer. 

We began the day with our regular Calvin and Hobbes cartoon.  Today's cartoon was about dreaming to fly and the reality of gravity.  Read and discuss it with your child.

The math today was a continuation of our math sense lessons.  The students had to write number words for numbers (502 as five hundred two), given a number word, printing the number (seven hundred six as 706) then they had to write word numbers to answer questions like write 300 greater than 427 or 250 less than 700 etc.  As well the worksheet contained a number crossword puzzle.

After Math the students worked on their seal paintings and their seal masks or decorated their Art folders from Mrs. Schneider.

After recess we talked about memory boxes based on a book by Janet Wilson and Andrea Spalding, set in Victoria, called Me and Mr. Mah.  Mr. Mah maintained a memory box to remember his wife and his links to to his time in China.  The students, in their ME books, began to plan what OBJECTS they would put into their memory box.  The students are going to make a mini-book to look like a memory box. 

A handout will come home for you to work with your child to figure out what types of things are to be in the box.  We brainstormed ideas and came up with objects.  Ideas were to remember every member of our immediate family, old and new friends, things from their past and anything to do with places and times in their lives.  I told how I would honor of a memory of my grandfather, who I never met but was told stories of.  After the war he was the only person on the block who had a pension so he helped feed the whole neighborhood.  I would draw a picture of a few coins and a food item to honour that memory.  

After lunch most of the students went to choir.  Those students not in Choir listened to and did a report on Tchaikovsky.   His compositions are some of the greatest works of the Romantic Era, including the 1812 Overture, March Slav, and The Nutcracker, which has become a Christmas season favorite.

After choir we had computers where we did research looking for information on seals and the Inuit for a big project that is coming soon.  This was followed by a recognition assembly for even even numbered divisions.  We are next month.  Test tomorrow as there is no school Friday.  There will be only math and spelling on the test, no Science or Socials this week.  
See you all tomorrow.  cheers Mr. W