Hello Fabulous Families of Room 16,
Happy Friday the 13th!
This week we have spent a lot of time talking and writing about Remembrance Day. Remembrance Day happens on November 11th every year. On the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month we stay silent for 2 minutes to help us remember the soldiers who have fought in major conflicts around the world. We also learned the NATO Phonetic Alphabet, this was used when the allies communicated with each other during war. We got a chance to write our full names. For example Cappy Smart School would be written as
Charlie Alpha Papa Papa Yankee
Sierra Mike Alpha Romeo Tango
Sierra Charlie Hotel Oscar Oscar Lima
We have written about Ivan the Gorilla as well. He was the shopping mall gorilla that was eventually moved to the Atlanta Zoo. We are currently reading the chapter book about him called, "The One and Only Ivan".
In mathematics we are learning to multiply numbers. First we multiply the ones. We have learned to multiply 2-digit by 1-digit and 2-digit by 2-digit. Some of us are even trying to multiply larger numbers. If it is a single digit number, the we will only multiply the single digit. If it is a 2-digit number, then we also have to multiply the tens. We do some adding when we carry and to find the final product.
We are learning about Waste in science. We have learned about biodegradable and non-biodegradable things. We have talked about what goes in the black, blue and green bins that are collected every one to two weeks outside our houses.
In Phys. Ed we continue to play a variety of tag games. Ask me about them. We have also been learning how to throw and catch Frisbees. We discovered that we do not throw Frisbees when it is really windy out.
We continue to draw different things, and this weeks focus was on poppies.
Room 16 wants to welcome the wonderful Ms. Murphy to our school. She joined us to teach us this week about using different symbols to create our own alphabet.
We have been studying Canadian Musicians in Music. We can't wait to share our research projects with each other.
It has been a successful week of learning.
Fabulous Friends of Room 16
