Week 12 - We're Back Baby!

Mr. Hodgkinson was away getting a surgery and we had Mr. Gagne as our guest teacher. Then, due to Covid outbreaks, we had many interruptions. So, we've missed a few weeks...but...we're back with a new blog.

Author: Risi Vokshi

Date: December 3, 2020

Classroom Quote of the week: “So, the weather?” - The all famous quote by Soliman.

All about me: HI! My name is Risi. I love donuts, cupcakes, chocolate, candy,  and anything else that’s sweet! My favourite animal is a snake and my favourite colors are violet and blue.

Song of the Week: Last week, we discussed bullying. We listened to the song Our Lips are Sealed by the GoGo’s and talked about the advice in the song. It reminds us that the best defense against gossip is to say nothing.

“When you see them, look right through them.”

If you don’t add fuel to their fire, it goes out. We listened to this acoustic version by Jane Wieldlin but, as a class, we decided we liked the rocking version by the GoGo’s better.

The Best Thing About This Week (The Rose)

Last week, we had access to Chromebooks everyday so nobody was behind on their work. We also had many students get level 5´s (a perfect week completing all tasks and assignments).

The Worst Thing About This Week (The Thorn)

Sadly, we had a few cases of Covid-19 diagnosed with students at our school. This caused some from our class to stay at home for the time being. We still have many students absent because they were concerned about the safety at the school.

Mathematic Mentions

Last week, we continued learning about patterns and algebra. We explored the language of math - solidifying terms like sum, quotient and product.

We reviewed Order of Operations (BEDMAS)

We worked together to find the algebraic expression for real life mathematical situations. For example:

Roman’s Pizza Place is having a sale. 

A pizza with cheese and tomato sauce costs $6.50. Each additional topping costs $1.35

Write an algebraic expression that could be used to determine the cost of the pizza with (t) as the variable for the number of toppings.

Can you solve it?

Literacy Links

Our new read aloud is Freak the Mighty by Rodman Phillbrick. 

Last week, we all chose a “positive” song. We had to write about the song, the author, our favorite line, and what message we think our song was about. At the end, we all had terrific writing and our writing was printed and pinned up on our wall. My song was Get Up, Stand Up by Bob Marley & The Wailers

The Arts

Last week was our second week of working on our cassette tape art. For those of you who are wondering what that is, I will explain it step by step. 

1. print out a photo of a black and white image.
2. trace it onto card stock. 
3. get a cassette tape and pull the tape out. 
4. glue the tape onto the image. 
5. use a hot glue gun to affix the cassette tape to give the illusion it is spilling out to create the image.

Four Examples from our class

What are we looking forward to? (The Bud)

Hopefully, the students who obtained Covid-19 recover. We are also hoping that all the students that are currently at home due to the cases will return before we go to break.

Motivational Quote of the Week from Lisa R.