Lots of learning and lots happening!

This week at school…

We worked with mosaic artist Dmitri on a couple of new pieces.

"We cut tiles with Dmitri for our mosaic." - Josh

"The mosaics will be done by next week.  Today, we watched Dmitri grout the tile." - Carter (4)

"We are learning about celebrations around the world, like Chinese New Year, Hanukkah and Los Posadas." - Kendall

Yesterday and today we celebrated the Chinese New Year with a few crafts and stories.

"We made dragon masks!" - Janna

We were fortunate to have two great assemblies this week.

"We saw the Robert Munsch play in the gym. My favourite story was 'I Have to Go'." - Rya

"Ace Burpee came to our school and read books to us, because it's I Love to Read month. He loves to read and he read to us in English and French." - Kendall

In Math…

"We have been working hard on our Math. We have been working on doubles and on XtraMath on the iPads." - Anabeth

What a fun week!

En hiver, je porte...

What do you wear in the winter? See what we wear!


 

Les Doubles

This week we started practicing our doubles.  We learned a new song.  Check it out!

Wow! December was busy!

December!

At the beginning of the month we had a 'Plastic bag assembly' with Mr. Ethans.

We went to a plastic bag assembly with Mr. Ethans again. - Quinn

We won a bench and two birdhouses. - Carter (4)

We collected lots of plastic bags and because we had so much we won the recycled bench and houses. - Anabeth

Our school came in second in Manitoba. - Sloan 

École Robert Browning collected approximately 31000 bags. Bravo!

We also went on a fieldtrip to the Manitoba Museum. 

We went to the Manitoba Museum. - Kendra

I liked the polar bear eating the seal with the lights changing from day to night. - Cavan

My favourite part was the old movie theatre. - Hudson

The science gallery was fun! - Rya

I liked seeing the bison. - Janna

I liked the pulley chairs in the science gallery. - Carter (3)

I liked the 5 senses tasting the ice cream. - Quinn

I liked the bat cave. - Carter (4)

I loved the matrix mirror room. - Sabrina 

We also did some fun Math centres.

We got to do 6 different centres - Quinn

I liked playing addition war. - Hudson

I love the dice game filling in the squares of the star. - Carter (4)

I really liked the star centre too. - Cavan

I liked making patterns. - Kendra 

I liked the centre with the trains. We had to spin a spinner and put that many blocks in and see how many more to make 10. - Sadie

This was some of the fun things we did this month. We also did Christmas Math centres, fun activities with our grade 3 buddies, Christmas crafts and so much more!

Here are some great pictures!

Les Maisons et les 5 sens

On Monday, we got together in our "houses" to meet with our group.  We made posters of our animals to put outside the classrooms.

"In my group we coloured our names and then put ink on our finger and stamped over our name," said Kendra.

"My group made owls with our names on them and stuck them on a big tree," said Holly.

Yesterday, we did different centres for the 5 senses.

Here is what we thought of the centres...

Quinn - My favourite centre was the smelling centre, because we got to smell something and guess what it was.

Sabrina - I liked the smelling centre.

Sadie - I liked the touch centre with the play dough. 

Hudson - I liked the listening centre.  We listened to a story.

Sloan - My favourite was the I Spy centre. We got to look through a paper with eyes on it and we got to see what it would look like with certain eye diseases.

Nathan - I liked playing 5 senses Bingo.

Cavan - I just liked all the centres!

Our A-maze-ing Grade 3 Buddies!

On Thursday, we met with our grade 3 buddies from Mme Gaunce's classroom.  The grade 3's shared the mazes they designed and built.  We started off with our buddy and then got to switch and go with some of the other grade 3's.  Each of our partners explained how they made their maze and how it worked. So cool and so much fun!

Here's what we thought of the mazes:

Josh - "It was fun! We had to try and get to the end or the other side."

Carter (4) - "There were lots of hockey mazes!"

Maiya - "We had fun with the grade 3's."

Bailey - "I think the whole class loved it."

Thanks grade 3 buddies and Mme Gaunce! Can't wait until next time!

Le jour du souvenir - Remembrance Day

This past week, we learned about Remembrance Day.  We read Faithful Elephants by Yukio Tsuchiya.

We also learned about poppies.

We had many discussions and shared our thoughts and feelings about Remembrance Day.

Here are a few of the things we learned and some of our thoughts about Remembrance Day:

Ellie - "We love soldiers because they protect us."

Nathan - "Soldiers help our country."

Kendall - "At our school we don't fight, we play nice."

Josh - "Soldiers died for us.  That's why we wear a poppy."

Holly - "Poppies grew in the fields where the soldiers died."

Carter (4) - "For the Remembrance Day ceremony, we got to wear a poppy."

We did some French writing about Remembrance Day.

Using sponges and poppy seeds, we made poppy Art.

We worked as a team to make a Remembrance Day wreath for the ceremony in the Gym. 

 

We also discussed and wrote about how we can be good citizens at school.