The week has just flown by. We have been busy practicing our skills and tackling some new concepts. Here are some of the highlights:
This was a great week for working on our soccer skills both inside and outside. We are developing ball control, passing and shooting skills. Students are working to move the ball towards a goal and to try defending against another player.
In Language Arts, we have begun focussing on developing our descriptive vocabulary. We are practicing thinking of interesting adjectives to describe a variety of objects. We will continue to build our vocabulary and practice adding more interesting words to our writing. We began another story writing project this week. We read the book "Corduroy" and decided to write a story about a lost object. Students brainstormed ideas about what they could have lost and created a story map about places they could look for the lost item and what else they might find along the way. We then wrote the beginning of the story and tried to include some descriptive words.
In Science, we continued to explore colour through investigating how paint interacts with a variety of materials. We used the scientific method to experiment with materials and record our observations.
We also explored materials that are transparent, translucent, and opaque. We used black card stock, coloured cellophane, wax paper, tissue paper, and tin foil to create a stain glass window to demonstrate these three properties. We have put our projects up in the windows of our classroom, so please come by and view our work.
Next week we will begin our work with Sound Kreations. We will be learning about the Hip Hop style of dance. It should be very exciting.
