Monday Nov 30

There is no school on Friday Dec 4th as it is a professional development day for teachers!

We worked on rounding numbers to the nearest tens, hundreds and thousands place to help us in estimating. We practiced estimating numbers as we added and subtracted 2 digit and 3 digit numbers.

Learning about rocks and minerals...

Students are starting to classify and identify different rock types based on different attributes of each rock type. We learned about minerals and a little bit about the rock cycle! We learned how rocks and minerals are formed.

Friday Nov 28, 2020

Spirit Days are coming to Eric Harvie for December! Each Thursday in December there will be a new theme for everyone!
December 3^rd – Crazy sweater day!
December 10^th -  Crazy Hat day!
December 17^th – Pajama day!

We spent time this morning working in our doodle journals and practicing our printing skills. We wrote spiral stories to continue practicing our printing skills. We continued working and refining our Wild Robot timelines and the students were able to show their understanding of Roz's journey in the story.

It was a warm winter's day today! We took advantage and spent some time outside and enjoyed the weather.  

November 26, 2020

Notices:

Coulee Walk tomorrow for Cox/Shivi - Dress appropriately

Peace Ambassador forms were due to Mrs. Zwack today

Families Helping Families

Today we had our final Fire Drill for 2020 and the students did a fantastic job of exiting the building safely and quietly.  Great job everyone!

This morning the students read threw a few more chapters from The Wild Robot.  They then talked about the main character, Roz and discussed how she has changed since the beginning of the story.  They then wrote and drew to communicate their understanding of the character.

This afternoon we began with 20 minutes of Read to Self and guided reading.  Mrs. Cox's class did some persuasive journal writing to convince their teacher who they should sit next to for the next month of school and why.  We'll see if they chose a good fit neighbour!

Mrs. Cox tracked down Mrs. Kinsman's rock tumbler.  We discussed words like opaque, transparent, luster and grit before we put rocks into the tumbler for a few weeks.  We're excited to see what they look like after and learning about how this could happen in nature. 

We ended today off with some more math (word problems with rounding) and word work.

What is the value of this?

Is this the same value?  What has changed?