Busy beavers...

What a CRAZY couple weeks!!! The students all worked extra hard to complete all their work before Parent Teacher Conferences! It was awesome to see each and everyone one of you come and share your work with your parents and let them know what we have been up to! I am very proud of the great job you all did and how you all helped together to make the room look great and took special care with all your projects leading up to last Thursday and Friday. Way to go grade 3/4 :)

 We really enjoyed painting the Northern Lights and adding our penguins! Thanks for all the fun facts and questions on our penguin board, we will get to work answering them soon.

Dancing with the Stars was a big hit with the students, and the teachers! Thank you for your fundraising and it was nice to see so many famous people show up for the dance ;)

Our Tipi projects our now complete, and we couldn't of done it without the help from 

our parent volunteers! 

Today we started a SECRET PROJECT!!! Shhhhhh.....take a look at the pictures and see if you have a guess as to what we are doing! Students, keep your lips sealed!!!

Last but not least, we hope you all enjoyed the DO NOT OPEN THIS BOOK books. We loved making them, laughed lots, and got creative! Way to go authors! Can't wait for the next books!

TTFN :) Mme Janes

The Last 2 weeks...

A couple of Fridays ago we remembered a special day, and special people who fought for peace and freedom. Our class sang a song and we made these poppies to decorate the gym.

We also got our hands dirty...I mean we finger painted about feelings for a art project we can't show you right now! Hint: Ivan :)

Some found it weird and silly!

  We are never to young to paint with our hands and have a little fun!

Tipi Joe is a man who is teaching us about tipis and aboriginal culture, and he is also helping us make our own small miniature tipis! We started to paint them today. On Friday we will put them together!

Mr. Sorokowski is our go to book guy! He always gives us suggestions for books. Yesterday he came to read a really interesting, funny book! ...BUT we will have to share that with you during parent teacher conferences!

That is all for now! See you later alligators!

Grade 3/4 :)-

"Rocking" Times in Grade 3/4

Sorry Blog, we had a busy time these past two weeks! It all started with some word work. Oh, what is that you say? You don't know what word work is! Well, it is where we use playdoh, alphabet dice, wiki sticks, and pencils and markers to practice making words. Take a look below!

Next we did a Starburst science experiment to make rocks! There are 3 types of rocks- sedimentary, metamorphic and igneous rocks! First, we cut them up into small pieces and mixed them together and  made them into a 'rock'.

 Then we added HEAT from our hands by rubbing the rock in a plastic bag, then we added PRESSURE!

 We had fun smooching them :)

 When they were ready, we placed them in tin foil and added even MORE HEAT from the oven!

 BEFORE!

 AFTER! *** notice the bubbles ***

For Halloween, we did lots of fun activities! We started by scooping out all the guts and seeds from the inside of the pumpkin. We washed the seeds and separated them from the guts. Then we baked them in the oven with spices. The pumpkin seeds were a big hit!

Next we carved the pumpkin, and you guessed it!! We made an owl pumpkin- special thanks to Mme Pfeifer for the outline. It was really fun to carve and some of us were really fast at it!

 

EWWWWWWWWW!

Some enjoyed the squishy feeling more than others! He he

 

We are hard at work on our volcanos and can't wait to share them with you at conferences!

And last but not least, we had a great day last Friday dressing up for Halloween, going to the parade and having our class party!

Ps- explosions will be happening Thursday! Take cover :)