Wetlands Today!

Reminders:

Ms. Bennett will be putting together a Remembrance Day slideshow and is inviting school families to send her photographs of family members who are veterans or current members of the Canadian Arm Forces. Please send in all photographs by the deadline of Friday November 1st. With the photographs please include the Canadian Arm Forces veteran or current member’s name, the war or peace keeping mission they participated in, if possible, where the photo was taken, and their relationship to you (for example great grandfather, aunt, uncle, etc.). Ms. Bennett’s email address is mebennett@cbe.ab.ca

Thank you, 

Learning Environment Committee

Reminders: Tomorrow my Raz-Kids information will come home in my home communication folder. Raz-Kids is an excellent way to get more reading practice in different way than our home reading books. Please follow the attached letter and use your username and password information to get started. Please keep the attached username and password somwhere safe as it will remain the same all year long. 

https://www.raz-kids.com/main/ViewPage/name/login

Reminders:

We would like to create our own calm down bottles and are requesting if you have any 500 ml water bottles that are empty and clean could you please send them into class. We are hoping to have a enough that the whole class can participate in this activity by this Thursday October 24th. 

Literacy

This week we have continued to practice retelling as a reading comprehesnion strategy. However we also started practicing sequencing when we were retelling our story, and have been practicing talking about our stories in order using the words First, Next, and Last. 

Insect Experts and Guided Wetland Walk

Today we were lucky to have two Environmental Scientists into our classroom to talk about local insects in our own Wetlands. We got together and were able to build some familiar insects and review important body parts, learning in more detail about adaptations and life cycle.  We also were able to go on a walk to the Wetlands and explore areas where our fellow insect friends live. We surprised our guests on how much we knew already, ask me about life cycles and what the insect is called in each part of the life cycle! 

Insect Research

Today we explored a website called insects of Alberta:
http://www.insectsofalberta.com/main.htm

We had to do a mind map of an insect that we would like to research using websites, books, articles, photographs and magazines. We will begin this research by using graphic organizers to record our initial findings. Next week we will learn how to create a GoogleSlides presentation so that we can create a final presentation to share with our class and with you about our insect of choice.