Friday, February 2

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Here's what we've been up to the last 2 weeks:

 - we're playing the mallets in music (AJ)
- our artist of the week is David Bowie (Neisen)
- we've been making shapes with elastic bands (Callum) (geoboards)
- we've been making 2D and 3D shapes with clay and toothpicks (Emerson & Anna R)
- (Maxim)
- we made zoo enclosures (Keira & Callum & Jack) (Building Things unit in science)
- we did a poem in music with instruments (Sophia)
- we writted about a groundhog (Jack)
- we learned how to draw a groundhog (Ms. Klein)
- we made "Sentences a Day" (Liam)
- we learned what a predicate is and the who of a sentence (Trech & Emerson)
- we learned what subject in a sentence which is "who" (AJ)
- that "what" of a sentence is the predicate (Anna W)
- in club we made mini rockets and launched them with water (Neisen)
- (Anna R)
- we did math talks (Trech)
- we had some new words and a couple were the "ate" family and the "ice" family (Sophia)
- we did a rely race with shapes and there was a girls team and a boys team (Anna R)
- we wrote about the story "The Mitten" (Trech & Anna W)
- we did a goal we are working in writing (Ryan)
- we labelled parts of a cube (Dominik)
- we made maps of the classroom (Social Studies)
Artist of the Week

Queen:

Piggybacking on last weeks influential artist of the 70s, this week we will be exploring one of that bands that David Bowie collaborated most successfully with. Queen was an important pop-rock/progressive rock band of the 1970s, and created some of the world’s most favorite sing-along anthems. At the end of the week, we will take a look at “Under Pressure” in order to make a connection with David Bowie. 

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