Car Racing

We are working on measurement in Math. We built ramps and raced our cars down them, to measure which cars went the farthest or shortest distance.

Math - Problem Solving

We worked on mixed addition and subtraction problem solving using the SMARTboard
for pictures and a dice.

Easter Baskets

We enjoyed filling each others Easter baskets.

Mixed Addition and Subtraction

Today we worked in groups to make up either an addition or subtraction story. Each group had to present their story to the class. The class had to write what the addition or subtraction sentence was on their white boards.

Easter Eggs

We enjoyed decorating Easter eggs. We did 5 different styles. 1. Sponge painting
2. Acrylic Paints 3. Mosaic (with tissue paper) 4. crayon design and dipping 5. dipping with either a sticker face and yarn hair, or sparkles. We loved doing the eggs, and only had a few casualties.

Rock Show

We went to the rock show in Mrs. Ruff's room. The grade 4's were able to tell us many interesting facts about rocks.

Science Fair

We enjoyed going to the Science Fair today. The grade eights had made many interesting discoveries to share with us.

Aboriginal Drummers

Last Friday a group of aboriginal drummers and dancers came to our school and put on a performance for us. They had some very interesting dance steps and costumes, and they told us stories as well. At the end we all got to participate in a "round" dance.

St Patrick's Day

Art

We have been working so hard the last two weeks, doing testing and getting ready for report cards, that we decided to do something fun in art today.

Penny Wars

We have been raising money for Telemiracle by doing a boys vs girls penny war. The girls brought in the most money, giving them the chance to throw pies at our male teachers. Yorkdale raised over 2,000.00 dollars for Telemiracle!

Robert Munsch

Our blog is working again! Just in time for the Wide Open Robert Munsch Puppet show.
We thought the puppet show was GREAT! They did some of our favourite stories, Murmel, Murmel, Murmel, More Pies, Aligator Baby and many more.

Valentine's Day

We had a fun Valentine's Day!! We read Valentine stories, played games, and did a few dances. We enjoyed our friendship lunch with Mrs. Ivanochko's grade ones, and thought the Sask. Express show was fantastic!

SMART Response System

Mrs. Morely joined us today to show us how to use this new system.
Some of us got to answer questions on the computer using a remote. We thought it was a fun way to do a test. We hope to keep using this new technology in our classroom.

Valentine's Art

We worked with our grade 8 buddies to create Valentine folders, to hold our Valentine's in on Friday.

100th Day of School

Today we celebrated 100 days of school. We read 100 Day stories, we made necklaces out of 100 fruitloops, we did a 100 piece puzzle, we stamped 100 stamps in groups of ten, and we made rose colored 100 day glasses. We also had a treasure hunt where we had to find 100 chocolate kisses. But our favorite thing was the bag of 100 munchies that we had to eat as we did all of the activites!

Groundhog Day

We have been learning about groundhogs. We know they can be called whistle pigs, or woodchucks, we know they can run as fast as a grade 4 student, we know they can move 700 pounds of dirt in one day, and we know they make tasty stew!

Sledding Fun

Sorry this took so long to get on the blog - we had some troubles getting it up and running.