Thursday, December 3

What an amazing week of warm weather it has been. To take advantage of that, we have been doing our Phys Ed outside - tag games, playground safety review and today we tried to create an obstacle course of our own on the playground equipment. The children had great fun and good exercise with that.

In our Social Studies, we have moved onto studying the Haida Gwaii first nations group of the Pacific Northwest. Students have enjoyed learning about a rainforest climate, enormous cedar trees (providing clothing, wood for totem poles, canoes and ceremonial masks, lodges). The animals of this area are interesting as well - eagle, raven, bear, orca, etc.

We are continuing work on numeracy, learning different ways of representing numbers. We have started to introduce addition.

We read and write daily. Our writing usually focuses on some aspect of our Social Studies work. 

2 reminders this week:

- no school for students tomorrow

- information regarding our online Scholastic book fair went home this week. A good opportunity to do some online sopping for books.