Today is Anti-Bullying Day!
We we were priviledged to watch a 'Cinderfella' from Mike McMurty's Merry Tale Theatre to help us learn more about being kind, working our hardest and anti-bullying.

Here are some short clips

Today's agenda notes:
-Spelling pg. 85-88 and spelling sentences
-Cursive up to pg. 87
-Read on Raz Kids for 20 minutes or another book
-Study for math test tomorrow
-Sick Kids donations


-ALSO I am looking for action starts for our simple machine unit\:) I asked students to take what they are learning about simple machines and show or explain how it is used in the real world.

For math today we continued with our review, most students finished yesterday but we clarified the word problems and how to solve them. It is important that students show their thinking using pictures, numbers and words.

For language today we had our Ontario Writing Assessment which was writing an explanation about a toy robot.

We reviewed what explanation writing is and brainstormed what student's should be brainstorming about.[haha brainstorm the brainstorm]

Some questions and ideas to consider in our writing were:

-Introduce the robot, what is it's name?
-What does it look like? It is a person, animal, etc?
-What does it do, what makes it special? Does it help? How
-How does it work?
-How does it operate?
-Does it have any simple machines [whoaaaaaaa!]

For UOI we began to talk about wedges. We learned that wedges are made up of two inclined planes, and where the two inclined places meet it forms a point. They make our jobs easier and faster.

Some examples are: a door stop, chisel, and axe.

Students got to explore how wedges work by

1. Using a ruler to make a single wedge to stop a door from moving

2. Using our hands to make a double wedge to break a stack of blocks

3. Using energy to put wedges to work. Students had to move a play-doh ball with a ruler and/or scissors.

They had to poke it with their object and lift up to make a wedge.

4. They also moved two books using a wedge and an inclined plane using our math textbooks and a door wedge.


They placed the books side by side and put the thin edge of the wedge in between. They had to apply force at the top to separate the blocks.

We will look closer at the single and double wedge tomorrow.

Have a lovely evening!