Happy New Year everyone! I hope you all enjoyed your holidays. 

Our focus words this week all began with "qu". They were: quiet, question, queen, and quick.

We began working on a Winter booklet this week in Science. We have started to learn more about animals and living things such as reptiles and insects that hibernate. We have been checking on the two Grizzly bears at the Hibernation Station on Grouse Mountain in North Vancouver. Here is the link for the web cam should you be interested in taking a look. https://www.grousemountain.com/web-cams/bear-den-cam

A writing task this week was for the students to write two New Year's Resolutions - one for something they want to learn this year and the other for something they want to get better at doing. Please ask your child to share what they chose to write. This work was based on a book we listened to called Squirrel's New Year's Resolutions by Pat Miller.

We did an oil pastel art piece of fireworks to accompany this writing. This work is on display in the hallway outside our classroom.

In Math, the students are being challenged to reach target numbers from 5-15 by creating addition equations. Some students have also been using subtraction to reach the target numbers. For example, if the target number is 11 the students might write 5+6, 2+2+7, etc. or 12-1, 13-2, etc. 

We have also been learning about balanced sums. The students are given two addition equations to solve and then must determine whether they are equal or not equal. We will begin to focus on subtraction next week.