Class Update - January 27

¡Hola familias!

Hoy tuvimos una fiesta de lectura junto a la clase de la Sra. Dominguez. Los estudiantes disfrutaron mucho de leer con sus amigos y amigas. Apagamos la luces y encendimos las linternas. ¡Algunos construyeron fuertes con mesas, sillas y mesas!

📣 DON'T FORGET about the Open House at Senator Patrick Burns on February 2.

⛷️ AND the field trip to skiing/snowboarding on February 1.

THE JARS TO GROW CRYSTALS! DON'T FORGET!

You can bring two plastic bottles or glass/plastic jars

THIS WEEK IN REVIEW / LO QUE APRENDIMOS ESTA SEMANA

• 🔢 Math: We completed the unit about transformations. We will finalize with a project in which students will make designs applying what they learned about transformations. 
• 💃 Spanish: We spent the week looking at different tales to practice retelling as one of the key reading comprehension skills. We will now turn into the writing phase. We will also continue with "Centros de Lectura y Escritura" (Literacy Centers). 
• 📚 English: We are reading a variety of chapter books in the literacy circles, mainly fictional and non-fictional texts link to our Social Studies unit about the ways of living about Indigenous Peoples. As for writing, students are finalizing the poetry unit. This week, they learning about Haiku, Triplet, Quatrain, and Cinquain poems. We will finalize our unit with an Acrostic poem and complete a poetry booklet.
• 🔬 Science: We will continue with the unit about chemistry. Students learned about mixtures of solids and liquids, dissolving solids in liquids, mixture of liquids, making suspensions and solutions separating suspensions and solutions. A short quiz is scheduled for January 31st.
• 🔎 Social Studies: We will critically examine the ways of life of Indigenous Peoples in Canada. Students are learning about the way of life of Indigenous Peoples in the Cordillera Region - Northwest Coastal People.