Calendar sent home today

This morning we talked about one of the pillars of care: Care for others. We talked about how when we say others we are talking about our friends, our teachers, the people who work in the office, the librarians, all of the students in the school, the lunchroom supervisors and our custodian. We brainstormed ideas of things we could say, how we would act and things we could do that shows care for others. Some of our ideas were:
- you say please and thank you
- you could tell someone you love them
- you can compliment someone for example "I like your clothes"
- help people if they are hurt
- help someone if they are stuck on their work

Today we started a novel study of the chapter book called Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. There were lots of characters in the first chapter...we met 7 characters! We think the main character will be Charlie Bucket. We learned that Charlie LOVES chocolate, he is poor, he kept a chocolate bar for almost more than a month and he lives with 4 grandparents and his parents. We learned 2 new juicy words to add to our vocabulary. They were: draft and torture. Ask me what these words mean!

In math today we started to learn about repeating patterns. We learned that patterns are things that are arranged or ordered following a set of rules. If you figure out the rule you can then figure out what comes next in the pattern. Some fancy pattern words we learned today are:
Core: the part of the pattern that is repeated over and over
Attributes: ways to describe the parts of the pattern. Some examples are direction, size, shape and colour

This afternoon Mr. Fisher read us the story The Dot. It was about a little girl who didn't think she was artistic and only drew a dot on her page so she could leave her art class. When her art teacher made her sign her picture and then framed it, the little girl decided she could do much better pictures of dots and started painting and creating all different dots. This helped motivate other students in her school to try drawing their own creations. To go along with the story we created our own dots using watercolour pencils. Some of us made large dots and tiny dots. All of our dots looked different! Once we were finished, we wrote about what type of art we would complete or things we would make art about if we were world famous artists. Some of our ideas were:
- Paint splatter
- Batman, superman, DC heroes and villians
- Cover myself in paint and jump on a piece of paper
- Lots and lots of pretty dots
- Paint Mario Brothers
Ms. Binks and Mr. Fisher can't wait to see if anyone grows up to become an artist

Reminders:
School Information Packages should be filled out and returned by tomorrow
September calendar sent home today
Digital citizenship forms were sent home today. Students need to review these forms with an adult and sign them before returning them to their teacher. Students who do not complete the forms will be unable to use technology.