May 12 - 23

 

Over the past couple of weeks we have started a research project on animals from Alberta.  We've been using ebooks on the ipad.  After choosing an animal, we've been learning about how to take notes and then use those notes to write a sentence.  

I Can Create Artwork Based on Natural Forms

Over the past two weeks we have been working on an art project based on the Coast Salish artist, Susan Point.  We used her stain glass work, "The Tree of Life" as a starting off point to start our work.  After looking closely at the work, we noticed that Susan Point included a tree, mountains, and water.  We then started off our own work by creating a basic sketch of a natural scene.  We then carefully glued on strings to trace our lines.  After the glue was dried, we carefully covered our work with tinfoil.  To finish off our work, we coloured the depressions in the foil with coloured sharpies. 

I Can Use Strategies to Help Me Add and Subtract

We've been working up on using doubles facts to help us add and subtract within twenty.  Knowing our doubles and thinking about near doubles (e.g. 3+4) can help us do math in our heads without pencil/paper or manipulatives.  To help cement our knowledge we created a visual journal page showing different facts of our choosing.

Literacy:

This week we learned about when y makes a long i or e sound at the end of words.  We also learned about the ending -le.

Reminders

Wednesday, May 28

- Library Book Exchange

Thursday, June 5

- Sam Centre Field Trip

Thusday, June 26

- Last Day of School - Friday Schedule, dismissal at 12:41pm

May 5 - 9

 

This week we went up the hill to the community garden to help clean up garbage in belated honour of Earth Day.  Everyone took their job very seriously and were very competitive in trying to find trash to pick up.  We also had a sharing circle to talk about the gratitude we felt for Na'ha (mother earth)

I Can Recognize How Communities Were Different in the Past Than How They Are Today:

This week in social studies we have been talking about how communities have changed over time.  We took our learning outside to talk about how schools have changed from one-room school houses, to larger buildings like Ramsay school, and how they look of the building continues to change in newer communities.  

Literacy:

This week we worked on the trigraphs - 'tch' /ch/ and 'dge' /j/.  

Our new heart words were: woman, women, move, 

Math:

We finished up our work on fractions (1/2) and have started building on some mental math strategies to help us recall the answers of addition and subtraction with greater automaticity.  We even used the chromebooks and Google classroom to practice doubles.

Reminders

Wednesday, May 14

- Library Book Exchange

Thursday, May 15

- Fun Snack - pre-orders via Healthy Hunger only

Friday, May 16

        - Non-instructional Day - NO SCHOOL for students

Monday, May 18

        - Victoria Day - NO SCHOOL

Thursday, June 5

- Sam Centre Field Trip

Thusday, June 26

- Last Day of School - Friday Schedule, dismissal at 12:41pm

April 28 to May 2

I Can Identify What Makes Something One-Half

This week we worked on building our understanding of basic fractions and what makes something 1/2.  We started off by cutting sticky notes up and sorting them as a class into half and not half.  Next students were given the chance to do this independently and created a visual journal page of shapes cut into half and not half.  Finally, we looked at dividing a quantity of objects into two equal halves.  We will wrap up our look at fractions next week.

Literacy:

In literacy this week we spent some time looking at the syllables of words and how knowing some rules can help us read longer words.  We learned that vowels in open syllables make long songs.  We also learned that vowels in the stressed syllable make the schwa sound.

Reminders

Wednesday, May 7

- Library Book Exchange

- Hats on for Mental Health

Friday, May 16

        - Non-instructional Day - NO SCHOOL for students

Monday, May 18

        - Victoria Day - NO SCHOOL