Merry Friday:)

Hello parents and students,

Thank you for another awesome work week. Christmas break is just around the corner and I appreciate your continued focus and hard work.  Next week will be extremely busy with Christmas concert rehersals and year end activities.  Hang in there we are almost there!

This week in room 140 (231 was getting painted) we discussed the following topics.

LA- we read a new short story called "The Sniper" and discussed point of view.  We wrote our own sequel version of the story where we are focusing on improving our word choice (vivid verbs and colouful adjectives).  We also listened to a story called "My Teacher's Secret Life," and did some comic strip writing.

Science- every student was involved in writing a lab write up for our paper airplane experiments (Question, Hypothesis, Materials, Procedure, Observations and Conclusion).  After testing their airplane 8 times, students had to calculate the mean, median, mode and range of their data.  Our next steps will be to graph our data and look for which variable change worked the best.  Ask your child about this assignment, I'm sure that they can tell you a few things about aerodynamics and flight.

Gym- this week in gym we played a variety of fun tag games, yoshi and throwing games.  In the New year we will start a Basketball unit!

Music- the students have been practicing all week for their Christmas concert.  We are in need of some parent volunteers for our 1:00 pm and 6:00 pm concert times on Dec 17 (we don't have any).  Please let us know if you can help out!  Students also need to have their costumes finalized and ready by today!

Art- we have been working on creating a intermediate mosaic.  We are hoping that we can display our art work in the New Year in a special location for others to see.

Just a reminder that we need to fill our Christmas hamper for our family in need.  If you could bring in a $2 donation and the item of food that you signed up for that would be wonderful.

Have a very enjoyable weekend.  You all deserve it!

Mr. T

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