• Room Three learned a little about the Chinese New Year. They read about Chinese New Year with their buddies. They learned about tangram puzzles in math.
• Students had a shapes and attributes quiz. They aced the shapes part but need to continue to review how to sort for two attributes. You can practice those skills by going to activities on the Shape and Space page.
• The school had an assembly on integrity.
• We ended the week, as usual, with some dancing. This week students started to learn a line dance.
• Students are finishing up their big writing project. Next week we will be doing some revising!
• We learned the rap “The Verb Rap Song” to help them remember most verbs are doing words.
• Students shared what medicines they have taken and as a class we reviewed the safety rules around taking medication – always with an adult’s help!

Sorting 2D shapes by the number of sides they have

Use a Venn Diagram to practice sorting

Sort with one attribute – Simple Shape Sort

Sort with two attributes – Sort the Shapes

Try Game Nine (sorting) from Count Us In Games

Math Dictionary - look up attribute

• Fact Monster: Chinese New Year

• PBS Chinese New Year games

• Try an online fortune cookie!

• Great Wall of China, 360 degree Virtual Tour

• Dragon Dance Video Clip

• Get a Chinese Name!

•    Chinese New Year activity http://www.purplemash.com/chinesenewyear/

• Telephone Booth in Edmonton’s Chinatown

Word Wall Words: round, first, large, small, us               

Challenge Words: February, objects, January

Online Activities:  Spelling City coming soon

Green Group

- Students learned a song about Martin Luther King, jr. More information about him can be found on the Social: Special Days page.

- In health, we’ve been talking about safely communicating when at home (email, phone and answering the door).

- It was a review week. Students did many activities to review their words.

- Students will have a quiz next Tuesday about 2-D shapes. Parent Note We used geoboards this week to learn about shapes.

- On Friday, we danced to 1000 Dances, Wilson Picket (Just Dance 3)

• As of Tuesday, Ms Mondor is back working full time.
• Artist in Residence began. Students had a chance to see Rooney and Punyi perform. Room Three had Punyi come in three times to do literacy and drama activities. We will have one more session with Rooney and Punyi at the end of the month which parents are invited to attend if they wish. It will be on February 2. See next week’s mail folder for more information.
• Class website is being regularly updated with Word Wall Words again.  Next week is a review week - Yellow Group Words and Green Group Words.
• Reading centres started back up again. Most students should be getting new reading levels by the end of the month.
• As Rooney and Punyi have been doing fractured fairy tales with the school, we will be writing our own substitution story based on a fairy tale.
• Circles, triangles and rectangles are everywhere! We began our 2D shapes and 3D objects unit this week. Students will be exploring shapes and objects on their own as well as with graphs. Students watched a video called Learning to Use Graphs. You can watch this video at home by going to the Resources tab. Then scroll down to Discovery Education. At the Discovery Education site, put “learning to use graphs” in the search bar and the video should show up.
• In social studies we reviewed what students have already learned about the Inuit and Nunavut. We watched a video of throat singing and discussed how it is important to be respectful of other cultures.
• Mrs. Adam is just wrapping up magnetism and a new unit will begin shortly.
• At Pollard Meadows, INTEGRITY is the character trait for January.

{ihn teh grih tee}

Photos of Nunavut