January has been a long, cold month, but we have been as busy as always in the classroom. We are wrapping up our procedural writing unit. We blew bubbles, made hot chocolate and designed monsters!

In math we have been learning about area and perimeter. We have also been doing partner math jobs to master answering word problems. To help us remember what to do, we use 4 colours and the chart below.

Here are a couple of questions we did this week using this method.

We have also been working on giving feedback to help improve our work. We use the posters below to help us understand the levels of achievment. After feedback is given, the students have extra time to add/change parts of their work to 'bump it up' a level.