December 9 to 13

 

Thank you to all the amazing volunteers who made our day at the Inglewood Bird Sanctuary possible.  Whether you came with us on the trip or you volunteered with Stampede Parking or a Casino.  Everyone had an amazing day out on the land looking for evidence of the urban wildlife in Calgary!

This week we also had a chance to work with our grade 4 buddies to create a prototype for a winter problem.

Literacy:

Over this week and next week as well, we have been wrapping up our study the sounds for all the alphabet.  Our final letters are j, y, x, qu, v, and z.

Our new heart words are: was, you, what, have, 

Reminders:

Spirit Days:

Monday, December 16 - Red and Green Day

Tuesday, December 17 - Jersey Day

Wednesday, December 18 - Holiday Hat and/or Crazy Hair

Thursday, December 19 - Pajama Day

Friday, December 20 - Clubs Day

Wednesday, December 18

- Library Book Exchange 

Friday, December 20

- Last day of classes before winter break

- Clubs

Saturday, December 21 to Sunday, January 5

- Winter Break - NO SCHOOL

Monday, January 6

- First day back to class

December 2 - 6

 

Just a reminder that tomorrow is our field trip to the Inglewood Bird Sanctuary.  This is a winter themed field trip and will be outside for a majority of the day.  Please ensure your child is dressed for the weather.  Your child will also need a snack, lunch, water bottle, and an empty backpack.

I Can Create a Work of Art Using Different Colours of Paint

We used watercolours to create a sunset scene.  Students had to be careful to make sure they cleaned their brush in-between each colour so they could get a nice banding of colour to represent the sunset.

Literacy:

This week we worked with the letters and sounds for w and j.

We added the heart words: was

Reminders:

Monday, December 9

- Inglewood Bird Sanctuary Field Trip

Wednesday, December 11

- Library Book Exchange 

Thursday, December 12

- Spirit of Giving Holiday Event 5:30 - 7:30pm, 

We would like to invite families to join us in celebrating the Spirit of Giving on December 12^th from 5:30-7:30. We will be hosting an open house during this time, where families can participate in various activities that celebrate the season and give back to our community. We will be donating all of our creations to various local organizations. We encourage families to bring a food donation for the Calgary Food Bank that evening. Please join us any time between 5:30 and 7:30 for family fun, including crafts, singing, stories, refreshments, and more. Since this is a family event, we expect all attending students to be supervised by their families.  

Spirit Days:

Monday, December 16 - Red and Green Day

Tuesday, December 17 - Jersey Day

Wednesday, December 18 - Holiday Hat and/or Crazy Hair

Thursday, December 19 - Pajama Day

Friday, December 20 - Clubs Day

Friday, December 20

- Last day of classes before winter break

Monday, January 6

- First day back to class

November 25 - 28

 

This week (and last week) we learned about the artist Henri Matisse and his work with stained glass.   He created stained glass and wall murals  for a chapel in Vence, France shortly after WWII.  He agreed to take on this commission as a form of gratitude for a nurse that had helped him recover from cancer.

We learned that art was often made up of organic and geometric shapes.  For this project we focused on cutting organic shapes from paper to create our own "stained glass windows".  We are not quite done this project and will finish our last step next week.

I Can Talk About and Draw the Different Features in Different Types of Communities

This week in social studies, we continued learning about different community types.  Students worked on representing urban communities in their visual journals.

Literacy:

This week we worked with the letters and sounds r /r/ and l /l/.

Our new heart word is: from

Reminders:

Wednesday, December 4

- Library Book Exchange 

Monday, December 9

- Inglewood Bird Sanctuary Field Trip

Thursday, December 12

- Spirit of Giving Holiday Event 5:30 - 7:30pm, 

We would like to invite families to join us in celebrating the Spirit of Giving on December 12^th from 5:30-7:30. We will be hosting an open house during this time, where families can participate in various activities that celebrate the season and give back to our community. We will be donating all of our creations to various local organizations. We encourage families to bring a food donation for the Calgary Food Bank that evening. Please join us any time between 5:30 and 7:30 for family fun, including crafts, singing, stories, refreshments, and more. Since this is a family event, we expect all attending students to be supervised by their families.  

Friday, December 20

- Last day of classes before winter break

November 18 - 22

 

I Can Use the Scientific Method to Answer a Question

This week we continued to explore how things move.  We tested similar items to determine which one slid down an incline plane (ramp) faster.  We completed trials, compared the results to those of other groups, and then made some observations.

Literacy:

This week we worked with the letters and sounds for  h /h/ and k /k/.  We also learned about the letter s making a /z/ sound at the end of some words.  If the final consonant is a voiced consonant, the s is pronounced as a /z/ when a word is made plural (e.g. dogs - /d/ /o/ /g/ /z/).

Our new heart words are: he, be, me

We have also been working on writing complete sentences that include a beginning capital, end punctuation, a 'who', and a 'doing'.

Math:

In math we have been continuing to work on recognizing and representing numbers 20 - 50 in different ways.  We can use base ten blocks and tallies to represent larger numbers more efficiently.  

We have also been working on mastering our immediate recall of 5 pairs.  5 pairs are two numbers that add up to 5 (0+5, 1+4, 2+3). 

We have also been talking about the commutative property of addition - how moving the order of the numbers does not affect the answer.  

Reminders:

Wednesday, November 27

- Library Book Exchange CANCELLED for the week

November 28 and 29

- Parent Teacher Conferences

- NO SCHOOL on November 29

Monday, December 9

- Inglewood Bird Sanctuary Field Trip

Thursday, December 12

- Holiday Event 5:30 - 7:30pm, more information to follow

I Can Sort Objects into Groups Based on How They Move Along a Pathway

This week in science, we worked as a group to sort objects into the categories of rolling, sliding, and bouncing.  Some groups discovered that some objects can both roll and slide and they ended up making their own new categories.

 

Literacy:

This week in literacy we caught up and reviewed the letters and sounds we have been working on. 

Math:

We continued with counting, organizing our thinking, and representing numbers.

Reminders:

Wednesday, November 20

- Library Book Exchange

- Subway Fun Lunch - orders were due on November 13

November 28 and 29

- Parent Teacher Conferences

- NO SCHOOL on November 29

Monday, December 9

- Inglewood Bird Sanctuary Field Trip

     We logged onto the school Chromebooks for the first time this year!  After the long process of getting everyone logged on, we were able to look at Google Classroom and Teach Your Monster to Read.  Both these resources can be used at home.

I Can Represent and Explain My Thinking About Numbers:

    This week in math we worked with counting collections.  Counting collections are simply collections of objects that student count.  Working with counting collections help students build their knowledge of counting principles (one-to-one correspondence, cardinality, counting sequence).  We took our collections a step further, and students were asked to organize their collections in way. to make them more efficient in counting (e.g. organizing by 2s, 5s, and 10s).  Skip counting is also an important pre-skill for multiplication.

Literacy:

This week we worked with the letter and sound e /e/ and reviewed words with short vowel sounds.

Our new heart words are: see

Reminders:

Monday, November 11 - 13

- Remembrance Day and Fall Break, NO SCHOOL, for students

Thursday, November 14

- Library Book Exchange

Wednesday, November 20

- Subway Fun Lunch, order by November 13 at https://healthyhunger.ca/

November 28 and 29

- Parent Teacher Conferences

October 28 - November 1

 

    Halloween brought a lot of excitement to this class this week!  We had some time working through learning centres with Ms. Boone's grade 1 class and then later in the day we spent some time with our grade 4 buddies.

I Can Describe How Animals and Objects Move

This week in Science we took our learning outside to create some movement pathways with sidewalk chalk.  Students worked incorporated movement that was forward, backward, sideways, towards, curved, and spirals.  We then had some fun making our way through all of the movement pathways created by others.  

Literacy:

This week we worked with the letters and sounds for g /g/ and b /b/.  

Our new heart words are: of

Reminders:

Tuesday, November 5

- Retake and Class Photos

Wednesday, November 6

- Library Book Exchange

Thursday, November 7

- Remembrance Day Assembly @10:45am (students can bring a donation for Poppy Fund)

Friday, November 8 

- Non-instructional Day, NO SCHOOL for students

Monday, November 11

- Remembrance Day, NO SCHOOL

Tuesday, November 12 / Wednesday November 13

- Fall Break, NO SCHOOL