Valentine's Day

Hope

Michelle

Jacob

Joey

James

Emmett

Ibraheem

Kolby

Sydney

Aengus

Deborah

Alexander

Aahana

Mahanoor

Amara

Leina

Beckett

Wyatt

Yusuf

Gabriella

Charlotte

Nora

Jaxon

Malik

Friday February 7th, 2020

Dear Parents,
What a great turn out at Math Night!  Hawkwood enjoyed the opportunity to share with families a variety of ways to bring math into the home using common, everyday materials.
Over the next few weeks we will be doing many different science activities and experiments.  Each student will need to bring a empty/clean milk carton, a box of sugar cubes, and beginning next week we are collecting supplies to build an insulation device.  A letter will be sent home next week.

FYI
-Valentine's activity sent home, please return Monday
-Please bring empty and clean 2L milk cartons/juice cartons on Monday
-Please bring a box of sugar cubes for your child
-Wednesday Fun Lunch Jugo Juice & Kernels
-Thursday & Friday No School (Teacher's Convention)
-No Spelling Test or Poetry Party next week.


Our Learning:
We did catch up today with our math and literacy, had a great break outdoors, and watched part of an Arctic documentary.


For Homework:
Bring the supplies listed above :)
Complete your Valentine's Day activity and bring Monday

Thursday February 6th, 2020

Dear Parents,

We are looking forward to seeing you at math night tonight!

FYI
Math night 6:30-8
Spelling test tomorrow
Bring in 2L Milk cartons (or juice) for science



Our Learning:
"I liked Daily 5 and gym. I am excited of math night!"-Hope
"I am really excited for Math Night.  I liked Daily 5."-Gabriella
"I liked doing our sick people."-Jacob
"I liked doing our sick people and learning about temperature on the smartboard."-Beckett
"I liked learning about the sun this morning."-Jaxon
"I liked daily 5 because I did raz kids."-Ibraheem


Homework:
Come see us at math night!
Practice spelling words

Wednesday February 5th, 2020

Dear Parents, 

We are so excited to show our buddies our special 'heart tree' full of all the reasons we love our buddies!

FYI
Math family night Thursday
Spelling Test Friday
Please return the pictures and words for our poetry if you haven't done so already.


Our Learning:

"I liked making our valentine hearts for our buddies!"-Mahanoor
"I also liked doing the craft.  I liked Daily 5."-Nora
"I liked gym and daily 5."-Hope
"I liked doing the mountain pose today."-Charlotte
"I liked doing social and learning about how Regina and Iqaluit people live in the past."-Aahanna
"I liked making hearts and also doing math."-Amara
"I liked win morning work and am learning how to draw better."-Joey
"I liked gym, it was a lot of fun."-Malik
"I liked doing our hearts for our buddies."-Aengus
"I liked gym and playing games."-Leina
"I liked volleyball in gym"-Alex
"I liked math and I also liked doing the heart tree for our buddies."-Beckett
"I liked making the heart tree and playing volleyball."-Ibraheem
"I liked doing the hearts for buddies."-Jaxon

For Homework:

Solve the word problem. Make sure you use an equation, a math picture and words to answer the question.

Alex wants to make Valentines for his classroom friends. He has 14 boys in his class, and 9 girls.  How many Valentines will Alex have to make?

Tuesday February 4th, 2020

Dear Parents,
Students will be taking home a picture of an activity/season that they need your help with! Details below.
Next week we will begin building an insulation device.  If anyone is able to send extra 'building supplies' (list is below) that would be great!

FYI:
Family Math Games evening Thursday Feb. 6 6:30-8:00PM


We look forward to seeing you Thursday evening!

Our Learning:
-Further work on equalities/inequalities in math, along with missing number as well as 'greater than' 'less than'  'equal to' and 'not equal'.
-problem solving skills
-in Literacy we worked with our new words, and will be focused on how to 'research' using a variety of sources.
-in Science we began an activity about body temperature which will be continued tomorrow.

For Homework:
A black and white picture was sent home with the theme 'outdoor activities and seasons'.  The picture will be inspiration for students to write their own poem this week- which will be performed during poetry party next week (or the following week depending on how students find this task)!

0Students do not have to use the picture that was sent home, and are allowed to print off their own pictures.)

Task:
Part 1
Come up with as many words as you can to describe your picture.  Make sure to use descriptive details (i.e. yellow plastic bucket instead of 'bucket'.   Parents, siblings, etc. can help!
Return the picture with the words you have written around the picture.

In Class....
We will continue to work on creating our 'word list' to make sure we have lots of 'juicy' descriptive words to use. We will also use the internet, text books, non fiction books to record as much vocabulary as we can! In class we will delve a bit deeper into rhyming words and patterns of a rhyming poem  (AABB, or ABAB, etc.) and begin to formulate the rough copy of our own poem.

spelling words feb 3-7

Focus this week:

ir (short) and ire (long)  

(See Below)

Green: 

-consonant blend: stir 

-homophone "fir" and "fur" 

-oddball:  'fur' due to the same sound of the homophone; and 'their' which has the /air/ sound. 

Try: 

word sort with short, long and oddball words

write 3 sentences using your words 

draw a picture and write a sentence to go with the homophone words

Yellow:

-initial consonant blends: st, th, ch, wh, tw, sk 

end consonant blends:  rd, th, rt, rl, rp, st, 

silent letters in whirl, twirl, swirl

oddball: 'their' which has /air/ sound instead of 'ir' 

homophone: spelling words are not included, but good to know: their, there, they're 

Try: 

word sort by blend

write out 5 interesting sentences using your spelling words

make your own crossword puzzle!

Purple: 

compound word: birthday 

word endings: -ly, -ier, -ing

silent letters: twirling, swirling, whirling

oddball: heir (silent h, and has /air/ sound).

Try: 

write out the root words (i.e.  first + ly = firstly)

write your own story using as many spelling words as possible. 

Monday February 3rd, 2020

Dear parents, 
I am glad to hear most of us had a good week with Ms. Enns our sub last week.  Ms. Heagy is back from her holiday.


FYI
Spelling Words posted
Poetry Party tomorrow (Tuesday)
Math Night Thursday Feb. 6 6:30-8:00PM
Valentine's Day Exchange Feb. 12
No school Teacher's Convention Feb 13 & 14


Our Learning:
-During Daily 5 we did our Spelling Test from last week.  Students brought home their self-marked tests.
-We also focused on solving a few math problems and are learning how to highlight/underline important information, sort what we know from what we need to know as well as decide on the right math equation, math picture and how to write a sentence using words that answers the problem.
-In Science we are going over our vocabulary terms and exploring average temperatures during the different seasons as well reviewing what temperatures water boils at, freezes at, our body temperature and how to describe different ranges of temperatures.

For Homework:
Review and practice your new spelling words.