Welcome Elfie Sparkles, Expanding my Vocabulary, Growing Patterns, and Magnets!!

Yesterday we had our first visit from an Elf. It appeared in our classroom hallway and had a note challenging Room 73 & Room 74 to some Random Acts of Kindness! 

It said that its Magic would not start until we named it! So Mrs. Lagrana's class came up with many ideas and voted on one. Ms. Reynolds class came up with the other one and so finally our Elf was named:

Elfie Sprinkles

Today we were challenged to think of all the people that make Royal Oak school such a wonderful place. We decided to start with our wonderful office staff and go from there. 


Literacy

This week we are continuing to pratice our News Reporter Articles. We are Expanding our Vocabulary by: Noticing New and Interesting Words and 

After looking for words that we did not know what they meant we got to use online dictionaries and a website www.wordhippo.com to help us figure out the meaning of new words.

We also did a Vocabulary 4-Square with some of the new words we found in order to help us fully understand these new words:

Math

Growing Patterns! 

This week we are working on recognizing, building, and extending growing patterns:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRdqLeZck7g

Magnets

Today we began magnets centres. We started by doing a KWL chart to see what we already knew about magnets and what we wanted to learn about them...

We then started exploring 10 different magnets centres that will introduce us to important concepts, vocabulary and magnetic experiements. 

Ask me which centre I explored today?