March 5th, 2015

This morning we had a discussion on Responsibility. Our discussion covered various aspects of this term. What does it mean to be responsible? What responsibilities do we have at our age? What are our teacher's responsibilities? How does being responsible make us feel? How does being irresponsible make us feel? What is the outcome of being responsible? What is the outcome of being irresponsible? Ask us to reflect upon this discussion with you and tell you what we learned!

In music, we are working with our precorders and reading music. We will continue to remember to bring our blue folders and precorders to school on Mondays and Thursdays so we are prepared for music class! This is one of the responsibilities we talked this morning!

In dance today we learned an African dance. In order to perform this type of dancing, we used scarves as props. See if I remember how to do this at home!

In math, Miss Jackson's class is using their multiplication skills to work on area in measurement. We have discovered that if we make a grid on centimeter dot paper to find the area of a rectangle, it looks like an array! This is helping us to make multiplication equations to help find the area instead of counting all the blocks. Because we will be continuing to use our multiplication skills throughout the rest of the school year, it is still important to be reviewing out basic multiplication skills at home! This is another responsibility we have. :)

In Mrs. Cooper's class, Mrs. Witmer is continuing leading the students in their fraction unit. They have made fraction walls (Ask me what this is!) and we have learned some fraction games. We have also explored the difference between diverse fractions. We will be looking at where fractions take place in the real world moving forward!

This afternoon in our science inquiry with Mrs. Witmer we started exploring how, as a community, we can help bees to florish and prevent their extinction. We looked at these following websites:

Planting Bee Garden
David Suzuki
Organic Gardening
Attracting Wildlife
Bee Garden

***REMINDERS***:

1. Return the Student Movement Form by March 16th.

2. Miss Jackson's Scholastic Book Orders are due on March 11th.

3. Please send $10 for your child's Tanga art if you have not already done so and you would like to purchase it.

4. If you are interested in purchasing hockey tickets for "Student Night" please click on the link, Hockey Tickets, and don't forget to click on 'Cranston School' in the drop-down menu.