Math: This week the green group took a test on Wednesday about graphs and a pretest. Purple group did long division. Also a mathematician came and talked to us a bit too. We had to figure out how many squares we could find in a 3x3 grid, a 4x4 grid, a 5x5 grid, all the way up to a chess board (8x8 grid). We found a cool pattern to it, so some of us found out how many squares there are in a 10x10 grid.
Writing: We started on a new story this week. Everybody has to write a story from somebody or something else's point of view that you can't talk to. For example, we could write from Santa or a reindeer's perspective. When you are done, you get to draw pictures around your paper.
Social Studies: For Social Studies this week we are starting to work on the Civil War and we just finished the presidents. Also, Mrs. Price read a story about the civil way and it was VERY realistic, let's just say that. We also started talking about what it was like for a slave.
Science: This week in Science we started our study of microbiology. We're learning about things like bacteria, cells and germs. We started by highlighting things in microbiology papers.
Art: We are making very cool wrapping paper. What we do is we have this tub of water and a little paper circle. We put the circle in the water. Then we have paint dropper thingies and we drop the drops of different colored paint onto the circle and it makes a really cool design in the water. Then we put a piece of paper on the water and when we take it off, the design that was in the water will be on the paper.
Gathering: The Octopi sang "12 Days of Christmas". We started up SOS (Seabury on Stage) again. This is where students can sign up to do some special talent at Gathering.
Recess: Right now we are mainly playing blazer wars and freeze tag. We also play with little fortresses of dirt and wood chips. We use the wood chips as bricks and things as barbed wire.
Math Games: This week we played 1,2,3 Nim. The traps are multiples of 4. For the original when you can take 1 or 2, the traps are multiples of 3. We also found that for 1,3 Nim, the trap is an even number.
French: We're getting into the holidays now so we're playing a really fun Christmas game. We also learned Jingle Bells and Frosty the Snowman in French. Also the decorations are good too!
PE: In PE we went to the Norpoint Center and did the climbing wall. Then when we were done with the climbing wall, we went into the gym and played games.
Here we are with the mathematician who came and taught us a cool lesson!
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