Wednesday Feb 24, 2021

IMPORTANT UPDATE:

Unfortunately, Our Coulee Walk is Cancelled for Tomorrow.

We will reschedule another walk for next week. We appreciate your understanding! 

Scholastic Book Fair is Coming!

Pink shirt day! Thank you to all who supported Pink Shirt Day! We have been passing along our messages of kindness and treating each other in a respectful way.

We started our day with a sudoku and then moved into practice persuasive writing. They are working to support their thinking and ideas. In math, students continued to explore 3D Shapes and explore online programs to represent the shapes!

Tuesday, February 23, 2021

 

Our first walk is scheduled for Thursday, Feb. 25

We will be planning to go into the coulee a number of times over the next few weeks to study animal-made structures and work on a poetry project.  We will likely leave before the lunch hour is over so that we can get further into the coulee and have time to work on our projects.

Students who are not dressed with proper winter clothing will need to stay back at the school to ensure they are safe from frost bite.  

We will not allow students wearing only running shoes and students without warm gloves or mittens to come with us and they will need to stay at the office as they can't join other classes at this time.

Pink Shirt Day is on Wednesday!

Minds on today was a review activity around congruent shapes, where students had to identify which shapes were congruent and which ones weren't.  We then moved into symmetry and were challenged to draw lines of symmetry across specific shapes.  How many lines of symmetry are there on a rectangle?

The students all had an opportunity today to explore the program Tinkercad.  The class was given a username and class code (check Google Classroom) and time to explore the shapes and space.  

Our afternoon was all about visual sketch noting and animal structures.  We have learned that animals build structures for 3 purposes; Shelter, food storage and communication.  This learning will continue as we explore the animal structures in the coulee on Thursday.

Monday February 22, 2021

Our first walk is scheduled for Thursday, Feb. 25

We will be planning to go into the coulee a number of times over the next few weeks to study animal-made structures and work on a poetry project.  We will likely leave before the lunch hour is over so that we can get further into the coulee and have time to work on our projects.

Students who are not dressed with proper winter clothing will need to stay back at the school to ensure they are safe from frost bite.  

We will not allow students wearing only running shoes and students without warm gloves or mittens to come with us and they will need to stay at the office as they can't join other classes at this time.

Pink Shirt Day is on Wednesday

Scholastic Book Fair is Coming!

We started our day with shape math. Each shape had a value and we worked to decipher the code! We then went on a shape scavenger hunt throughout the school and learned about faces, edges and verticies. We compared 3D and 2D shapes and then we created a chart to represent the characteristics of each. We worked on our observation skills in our "Who Dunnit?" activity. Looking for clues, we began to discover what animals left behind or built in the coulee.

Upcoming Coulee Walks

We will be planning to go into the coulee a number of times over the next few weeks to study animal-made structures and work on a poetry project.  We will likely leave before the lunch hour is over so that we can get further into the coulee and have time to work on our projects.

Students who are not dressed with proper winter clothing will need to stay back at the school to ensure they are safe from frost bite.  

We will not allow students wearing only running shoes and students without warm gloves or mittens to come with us and they will need to stay at the office as they can't join other classes at this time.

Our first walk is scheduled for Thursday, Feb. 25

Friday, February 19, 2021

 Today we had a visit from a group of Bowness students, called the "Earth Guardians".  They created an art piece out of plastic bags to draw attention to plastic waste and recycling and upcycling.  The students enjoyed the presentation and then reflected about ways they can help in their home, school, community, world.

Me - reuse a plastic bottle for water, don't litter it could end up in the ocean.

Home - only use reausable straws.  If we have a plastic bag we can reuse it for many things.  Try to ban single use plastic at home.  Reuse party cups.

School - use less paper.  use recycled supplies for crafts

Community - donate plastic to the school for crafts, if we see trash on the sidewalk, we can put it in the proper bin.  Reduce usage of single use plastic, and ask people you know to do it.  Pick up garbage when you are out for a walk.

World - Ban plastics that can't be recycled.  Make sure restaurants have less plastic and more paper.

This morning the students were faced with a challenging math puzzle.  The puzzle is similar to a Sudoku but it involves number operations.  Here is the first one we did today:

The number in the corner of each box tells you the total of the bold box as well as the operation you need to perform.  For example, the 12x could be 3 x 4 or 4 x 3.  The rows and columns need to have the numbers 1- 4.

  

Wednesday February 17, 2021

We started our day with a math question. Would you rather... put 3 dollars in the bank and have it triple every week for 3 weeks or put 4 dollars in the bank and have it quadruple for 4 weeks. We worked on our poetry writing and continued to add interesting words and to edit our work. We explored some math as we learned about 2D shapes. Ask me what a quadrilateral is! Grade 4s headed off to French class this afternoon and learned how to count to 20! Grade 3s continued to learn how to make compound sentences!