Updates on this week

Home Journals 
Today we started home journals, every Friday we will be sending them home. The students are able to write about their week to you. It could be about something they experienced or learned at school or something that may have happened at home that they remembered. If you could bring them back each Monday, then the students are able to write something each week.
As well, feel free to respond, the students love it!

Today, some of us did not get to finish our writing. The students know they can finish it at home and then bring it back Monday.

Hello families, 

An adventure awaits your child at Bow Habitat Station!

Here are a few of tips and reminders from Bow Habitat’s Education Team:

·      Please let your child’s teacher know PRIOR to the trip if there are any known fish allergies.

·      Please bring:

o   Packed lunch/snacks/water bottle

o   Clean indoor footwear-pack in your backpack in order to be allowed in to feed the fish it is MANDATORY or you will not be able to particpate in this portion of the field trip if you forget to bring a seperate pair of clean, indoor shoes. 

o   We will leave all unnecessary items at school: snow pants, library books, etc.

o   Please visit http://bowhabitat.alberta.ca/ for more information. 

Reminders for parent volunteers from Bow Habitat’s Education Team:

·      Please ensure you bring an extra pair of clean indoor shoes (must have to enter the fish hatchery)

·      Bring a lunch/snack/water

·      Adult leaders will assist students in completing the activities.

If you have already paid, thank you! If you haven’t already paid, please pay online (no cash or cheque) using your MY CBE/Powerschool account prior to the field trip.

This week in Math: 

The T-Shirt Factory!

This week we have read the book Grandma Eudora's T-Shirt Factory:

We have been challenged to look at double digit numbers and triple digit numbers and organize Nicholas's into Rolls of Ten (tens) and Loose (ones). 

We have used snap cubes to model this visually and have been looking at the concept of Equivalence and Efficiency when breaking apart numbers. 

Next week we will create our own T-shirt Factory in groups and use what we have learned to add double digit numbers together using t-charts and stacking. We will also be using base ten materials to model and practice this. Ask me what I am thinking about naming my T-Shirt Factory!! 

Today we had the Area Math Specialist into our classroom to learn 2 new Math Games and practice playing them!

Ask me which one was my favorite!

This week in Literacy: 

This week in literacy we have been working on summarizing what we are reading. First, we looked at the title of a book or an article and predicted what we thought would be the main idea based on that. We learned that a title is called a text feature, and is a way in which we can understand the text further. Next, we looked at a few articles based on water and the water cycle and picked the most important details out of those articles. We summarized those parts ourselves, and are working towards creating a summary about the text we are reading.





This week in Inquiry:

Before we conducted our experiment, we learned about the scientific method and made a hypothesis on what we believed was going to happen to the water when it was thrown into the air. This way we started to think like scientists and start to make predictions about the experiments we are doing. 

Ask me about my prediction, then we can discuss what happened and what I know now after we saw the experiment and then talked about it. 

We have also looked into articles about the water cycle and have found a favourite song through our learning. I do apologize in advance as this will get stuck in your heads, but the kids love it so much.
Ask me some questions about the water cycle, I would love to tell you about it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWb4KlM2vts

This week we have been learning about the various states of matter. Last week we got to explore water and what we thought it was, how it felt, and what we saw. This week we really dived into how we can explain the different states matter, their properties and how we can define them.

Ask me to describe what the difference is between a solid, liquid and gas.