We have 50 words this week to study! If we study about 15 a night, that would get us through all of them by the quiz on Friday. Will you help me study throughout the week at home?
Group A: all, wall, call, will, tell, well, small, fall, smell, fell, cow, now, row, low, mow, day, clay, stay, car, far, jar, star, start, farm, harm, arm, alarm, are, book, good, look, wood, took, stood, shook, saw, paw, law, lake, shake, rake, five, time, nine, name, hide, shade, fine
Group B: why, try, trying, eat, mean, read, sunny, fly, treat, each, trip, tree, back, zoo, root, quick, look, looked, pack, cook, put, push, pull, could, would, found, round, brown, around, something, they, their, many, any, anything, than, because, know, water, very, which, where, there, before, after, over, under, again, outside, inside
Group C: said, ask, catch, eight, prey, they, great, than, afraid, away, please, believe, between, leave, easy, sea, been, seen, very, next, pitch, while, light, buy, which, drink, life, eye, swim, why, rocket, pocket, often, throne, so, sew, almost, both, coach, open, under, young, touch, human, music, much, such, few, new, fuel
After recess, Mrs. G read more of Silverwing. Poor Shade got swept out over the ocean in a big storm as they were making their way south for the winter. Ask me what happened!
This afternoon we started our final Social Studies unit; it is going to be all about an Acadian community. Ask me what we learned so far!
After looking through a few photos, our task was to draw a picture of what we would see out our bedroom window if we lived in Meteghan.
Reminders:
-Story Book Theatre field trip on Thursday!! Please return forms if you have not done so yet
-Library tomorrow - return books!
-June book orders due Friday, no later please
Monday, 30 May 2016
Thursday, 26 May 2016
Rainy Thursday
What a funny couple of days we have had. Luckily tomorrow will return to normal.
Thank you to everyone who came to the concert last night, to perform and watch. The growth over the year among the entire school truly showed and it was wonderful. Thank you again. All of the kids hard work sure is paying off.
Tomorrow we have our word wall quiz. The words are below, will you please help me study tonight?
Group A: lake, shake, rake, five, time, nine, name, hide, shade, fine
Group B: which, where, there, before, after, over, again, inside, outside, under
Group C: under, young, touch, human, music, much, such, few, new, fuel
Yesterday and today we watched The Little Mermaid. We are going to see it at the Story Book Theatre next week. It was good to see and understand the story before we go. Then, when we come back from the theatre, we will be making comparisons between the movie and the play version.
Today we also leaned about the life cycle of bees. We learned that they have 4 stages:
1.Egg - stay here for 3 days
2.Larva - start to really grow and get fed 1300 times a day for 6 days
3.Pupa - after 6 days a cacoon is spun and a bee is starting to form inside
4.Adult - bees emerge after about 10 days, a future queen bee emerges after 6 days
Reminders:
-Fun lunch form due back Wednesday
-Field trip to Story Book Theatre are due TOMORROW!!
Thank you to everyone who came to the concert last night, to perform and watch. The growth over the year among the entire school truly showed and it was wonderful. Thank you again. All of the kids hard work sure is paying off.
Tomorrow we have our word wall quiz. The words are below, will you please help me study tonight?
Group A: lake, shake, rake, five, time, nine, name, hide, shade, fine
Group B: which, where, there, before, after, over, again, inside, outside, under
Group C: under, young, touch, human, music, much, such, few, new, fuel
Yesterday and today we watched The Little Mermaid. We are going to see it at the Story Book Theatre next week. It was good to see and understand the story before we go. Then, when we come back from the theatre, we will be making comparisons between the movie and the play version.
Today we also leaned about the life cycle of bees. We learned that they have 4 stages:
1.Egg - stay here for 3 days
2.Larva - start to really grow and get fed 1300 times a day for 6 days
3.Pupa - after 6 days a cacoon is spun and a bee is starting to form inside
4.Adult - bees emerge after about 10 days, a future queen bee emerges after 6 days
Reminders:
-Fun lunch form due back Wednesday
-Field trip to Story Book Theatre are due TOMORROW!!
Tuesday, 24 May 2016
Beesy Tuesday
Welcome back, hope everyone had a good long weekend despite the weather. It seemed like it today based on all the chatting in the classroom!
Another short week for word wall words, next week will be 50 word review. Group A is focusing on words with a bossy, karate chopping e that make the vowels say their name. Group B's word focus on letter blends and compound words and Group C is focusing on red words.
Group A: lake, shake, rake, five, time, nine, name, hide, shade, fine
Group B: which, where, there, before, after, over, again, inside, outside, under
Group C: under, young, touch, human, music, much, such, fuel, new, few
After Phys. Ed. Ms. Cokar was with us and we started writing about our long weekend.
This afternoon we had music. We are down to the wire for practices as our performance is tomorrow evening! Mr. Rattan has asked that we all leave out recorders at school tonight so that we ensure they are here for tomorrow.
Following music, we continued our double digit addition strategies. Hopefully this week, we will share and learn double digit subtraction strategies.
To end the day we started learning about bees! First we discussed what we already know about bees, and those ideas are:
-they sting people
-fly
-attack when in danger
-important to most things that grow
-make honey
A few others things we learned are:
-hymenoptera - meaning they are a bug of summer
-they have 4 wings that are transparent
-have a narrow waist to allow them to move their back end more easily
Finally, we got to label and color a bee. Lets take a look!
Reminders:
-Field Trip form coming home today - please fill out and return ASAP
-Spring concert tomorrow - doors open at 6, concert starts at 6:30 - please meet teacher in your regular classroom
-Return fun lunch form due June 1
Another short week for word wall words, next week will be 50 word review. Group A is focusing on words with a bossy, karate chopping e that make the vowels say their name. Group B's word focus on letter blends and compound words and Group C is focusing on red words.
Group A: lake, shake, rake, five, time, nine, name, hide, shade, fine
Group B: which, where, there, before, after, over, again, inside, outside, under
Group C: under, young, touch, human, music, much, such, fuel, new, few
After Phys. Ed. Ms. Cokar was with us and we started writing about our long weekend.
This afternoon we had music. We are down to the wire for practices as our performance is tomorrow evening! Mr. Rattan has asked that we all leave out recorders at school tonight so that we ensure they are here for tomorrow.
Following music, we continued our double digit addition strategies. Hopefully this week, we will share and learn double digit subtraction strategies.
To end the day we started learning about bees! First we discussed what we already know about bees, and those ideas are:
-they sting people
-fly
-attack when in danger
-important to most things that grow
-make honey
A few others things we learned are:
-hymenoptera - meaning they are a bug of summer
-they have 4 wings that are transparent
-have a narrow waist to allow them to move their back end more easily
Finally, we got to label and color a bee. Lets take a look!
Reminders:
-Field Trip form coming home today - please fill out and return ASAP
-Spring concert tomorrow - doors open at 6, concert starts at 6:30 - please meet teacher in your regular classroom
-Return fun lunch form due June 1
Wednesday, 18 May 2016
Wacky Wednesday
Tomorrow is our word wall quiz!
Group A: book, good, look, wood, took, stood, shook, saw, paw, law
Group B: they, their, many, any, anything, than, because, know, water, very
Group C: rocket, pocket, often, throne, so, sew, almost, both, coach, open
We are still working through double digit addition. Next week, we will be introduced to double digit subtraction. Will you please help me practice at home too??
This afternoon, we finished up our worm unit, by learning about their life. We learned that worms:
-help break up the soil
-can eat up to 10 tens of food a year!
-help to make the soil more healthy for plants to grow and survive
Next week, we learn about bees!
Reminders:
-fun lunch forms due June 1
-half day tomorrow!
-no school Friday or Monday!!
Tuesday, 17 May 2016
Squirmy Tuesday
We had Phys. Ed outside again today. It sure is nice to have that extra time out there to enjoy the weather and play with our friends.
In science, this afternoon after music, we did a couple experiments with the worms, to determine the ideal living conditions for them.
First we learned:
-worms create home by burrowing by digging, pushing, and eating the soil
-they live where there are many plants and leaves
Our experiments were called Wet or Dry? and Here Comes the Sun! The objective of the experiments was to determine whether or not worms like a wet or dry environment and a dark or bright environment.
Ask me how we completed these experiments and what our conclusions came to!
Wet or Dry?
Here Comes the Sun!
We also learned:
-sometimes the soil can get too wet for worms, like after a big rainfall, and when this happen, the worms come up to the surface for air
-it the ground becomes too frozen, worms will rest in a chamber until it thaws out
Reminders:
-Fun lunch forms coming home today, they are due June 1st
-I am still looking for a couple more volunteers for our story book theatre trip on June 2nd and zoo trip on June 14. Please let me know if you are available and willing to join us!
-Spring concert next Wednesday the 25th. Please be here at 6pm, meet in the classroom.
In science, this afternoon after music, we did a couple experiments with the worms, to determine the ideal living conditions for them.
First we learned:
-worms create home by burrowing by digging, pushing, and eating the soil
-they live where there are many plants and leaves
Our experiments were called Wet or Dry? and Here Comes the Sun! The objective of the experiments was to determine whether or not worms like a wet or dry environment and a dark or bright environment.
Ask me how we completed these experiments and what our conclusions came to!
Wet or Dry?
Here Comes the Sun!
We also learned:
-sometimes the soil can get too wet for worms, like after a big rainfall, and when this happen, the worms come up to the surface for air
-it the ground becomes too frozen, worms will rest in a chamber until it thaws out
Reminders:
-Fun lunch forms coming home today, they are due June 1st
-I am still looking for a couple more volunteers for our story book theatre trip on June 2nd and zoo trip on June 14. Please let me know if you are available and willing to join us!
-Spring concert next Wednesday the 25th. Please be here at 6pm, meet in the classroom.
Monday, 16 May 2016
Wiggly, Squiggly Monday
We have our words written down to bring home. Those word wall words are starting to get more challenging as we move closer to Grade 3!
Group A: book, good, look, wood, took, stood, shook, saw, paw, law
Group B: they, their, many, any, anything, than, because, know, water, very
Group C: rocket, pocket, often, throne, so, sew, almost, both, coach, open
HOMEWORK! Some of us who did not finish our newspaper article on bats are bringing it home tonight to finish. It NEEDS to be back by THURSDAY! Please check with me on whether or not I have this homework.
We started learning about wiggly, squiggly worms this morning! Did you know:
-worms are omnivores, that means they only eat organic material
-they have one long body that runs along their body and a bunch of round muscle too... ask me what these different muscle do!!
-and they do not have ears or eyes so the sense everything through their skin
This afternoon we started double digit addition. Ms. Binks came in and showed us a few new strategies. We are not yet regrouping but I would love to show you some strategies from today.
If you formulate 2 or 3 questions for me, I will show you what I know!
To ed off the day we went back to worms. This time we got to look and touch them! We wrote down our observations on how they move, what they look like, how they feel, and anything else we noticed.
Take a look at the pictures below!
This week at school:
ELA - word wall words, writing full setnences
Math - double digit addition
Science - Worms!
Health - pillars of care
Reminders:
-music tomorrow, bring recorders
-home reading, complete and return tomorrow
-library tomorrow, return those books!
-Thursday is early dismissal at 11
-no school Friday or Monday
Thursday, 12 May 2016
Rainy Thursday
Please continue to wear appropriate clothing both in and out of the school. Two pairs of shoes is mandatory, an indoor and separate outdoor pair.
Tomorrow is our word wall quiz. Our words are below, will you help me practice them tonight?
Group A: car, far, jar, star, start, farm, harm, arm, alarm, are
Group B: put, push, pull, could, would, found, round, around, brown, something
Group C: pitch, while, light, buy, which, drink, life, eye, swim, why
Today we focused on compound words. Together we can up with a list, for example; somewhere, skateboard, watermelon, however, everything, basketball, etc. Then we chose two of the words and drew a picture of them.
We are continuing to read the novel Silverwing. Shade, the main character who is a bat in the story, has gotten himself into some trouble by trying to stay up to see the sun. He is also starting to learn from one of the elders in the colony.
We will continue to read the novel even though we are wrapping up the bat unit tomorrow.
This afternoon we continued working on our web planners of bat information, then some of us started the final project. Ask me how we are organizing and presenting our learning on bats!
Reminders:
-music tomorrow, bring recorders
-home reading, complete and return tomorrow for the weekend
Tomorrow is our word wall quiz. Our words are below, will you help me practice them tonight?
Group A: car, far, jar, star, start, farm, harm, arm, alarm, are
Group B: put, push, pull, could, would, found, round, around, brown, something
Group C: pitch, while, light, buy, which, drink, life, eye, swim, why
Today we focused on compound words. Together we can up with a list, for example; somewhere, skateboard, watermelon, however, everything, basketball, etc. Then we chose two of the words and drew a picture of them.
We are continuing to read the novel Silverwing. Shade, the main character who is a bat in the story, has gotten himself into some trouble by trying to stay up to see the sun. He is also starting to learn from one of the elders in the colony.
We will continue to read the novel even though we are wrapping up the bat unit tomorrow.
This afternoon we continued working on our web planners of bat information, then some of us started the final project. Ask me how we are organizing and presenting our learning on bats!
Reminders:
-music tomorrow, bring recorders
-home reading, complete and return tomorrow for the weekend
Tuesday, 10 May 2016
Terrific Tuesday
Today was a good, hard working day.
We starting working on blends this week with our word wall words and boy did we make some good lists. We got through sh, ll, and sh blends, tomorrow we will finish with ch, and wh blends. Would you help me brainstorm some words for these two letter lends?? Take a look at the lists below to see some of what we came up with today.
st words - star, start, strike, stop, just, master, step, paste, trust, strength, sister
ll words - still, stall, all, spelling, I'll, ball, will pill, yell, Willow, Billy, drill, pillow, dill
sh words - share, lush, crush, shush, shovel, finish, shivering, shape, shock, shout, dish, plush
This afternoon we read to ourselves. In class we are still trying to earn hockey cards. Help me at home too, to earn as many as I can before the year is over.
In math, we are working on our subtraction strategies. Will you help me practice at home too? Give me 3 subtraction questions with numbers from 0-20 and I will show you 2 ways to solve the equations! Lets do this for addition too!
To end the day we learned about the habitat of bats!
-the place they live is called a roost
-they hang upside down
-they are nocturnal animals which means the sleep during the day and hunt at night
-ask me 2 more facts about bats!
Reminders:
-Music tomorrow, bring recorders
-Home reading tonight, complete and return tomorrow
-May 19 is teachers vs students hockey game
-no school May 20 and 23
We starting working on blends this week with our word wall words and boy did we make some good lists. We got through sh, ll, and sh blends, tomorrow we will finish with ch, and wh blends. Would you help me brainstorm some words for these two letter lends?? Take a look at the lists below to see some of what we came up with today.
st words - star, start, strike, stop, just, master, step, paste, trust, strength, sister
ll words - still, stall, all, spelling, I'll, ball, will pill, yell, Willow, Billy, drill, pillow, dill
sh words - share, lush, crush, shush, shovel, finish, shivering, shape, shock, shout, dish, plush
This afternoon we read to ourselves. In class we are still trying to earn hockey cards. Help me at home too, to earn as many as I can before the year is over.
In math, we are working on our subtraction strategies. Will you help me practice at home too? Give me 3 subtraction questions with numbers from 0-20 and I will show you 2 ways to solve the equations! Lets do this for addition too!
To end the day we learned about the habitat of bats!
-the place they live is called a roost
-they hang upside down
-they are nocturnal animals which means the sleep during the day and hunt at night
-ask me 2 more facts about bats!
Reminders:
-Music tomorrow, bring recorders
-Home reading tonight, complete and return tomorrow
-May 19 is teachers vs students hockey game
-no school May 20 and 23
Monday, 9 May 2016
Monday Chills
Please continue to keep an eye on the weather and dress appropriately. Having a separate pair of indoor shoes from outdoor shoes is very important, please ensure this expectation is being met. Thanks! :)
Our word wall words for this week are as follows:
Group A: car, far, jar, star, start, farm, harm, arm, alarm, are
Group B: put, push, pull, could, would, found, round, around, brown, something
Group C: pitch, while, light, buy, which, drink, life, eye, swim, why
This week we will be focusing on letter blends; st, ch, wh and compound words; something.
After recess we read more of Silverwing. Shade was being pretty rebellious by trying to stay up to see the sun. Luckily his mom found him and helped guide him to safety before the owl could get them.
This afternoon we learned a little bit more about bats. We know that:
-they can live in many places like forests, trees, barns, etc.
-they mostly like to eat the nectar from fruit
We finished off with labeling the part of a bat in our books and searching for 5 general facts about bats.
Tomorrow we will be learning more about the habitats of bats.
Subtraction is a little more difficult then addition. Today, Mrs. G read us a book called Subtraction Action. The book demonstrated strategies that we can use when working at school or when we need to use subtraction in our everyday lives. Let me show you what I know!
This week at school:
-ELA: word wall words, reading, writing sentences with 8 or more words.
-Math: single digit addition and subtraction
-Science: life of bats!
-Health: pillars of care
Reminders:
-Library tomorrow, return books!
-Home reading tonight, complete and return tomorrow
-Message from CBE: The Calgary Board of Education is committed to providing students and staff with a welcoming, caring, respectful and safe learning environment that respects diversity and fosters a sense of belonging. With this in mind, the CBE is creating a system-wide Student Code of Conduct (Administrative Regulation 6005) with input from students, parents and CBE employees. This new code of conduct will apply to all CBE schools, and beginning in the 2016/17 school year, individual schools will no longer have their own codes of conduct. All CBE students are expected to abide by the new system regulation, which will be posted to our Administrative Regulation page http://www.cbe.ab.ca/about-us/policies-and-regulations/Pages/Administrative-Regulations.aspx.
Our word wall words for this week are as follows:
Group A: car, far, jar, star, start, farm, harm, arm, alarm, are
Group B: put, push, pull, could, would, found, round, around, brown, something
Group C: pitch, while, light, buy, which, drink, life, eye, swim, why
This week we will be focusing on letter blends; st, ch, wh and compound words; something.
After recess we read more of Silverwing. Shade was being pretty rebellious by trying to stay up to see the sun. Luckily his mom found him and helped guide him to safety before the owl could get them.
This afternoon we learned a little bit more about bats. We know that:
-they can live in many places like forests, trees, barns, etc.
-they mostly like to eat the nectar from fruit
We finished off with labeling the part of a bat in our books and searching for 5 general facts about bats.
Tomorrow we will be learning more about the habitats of bats.
Subtraction is a little more difficult then addition. Today, Mrs. G read us a book called Subtraction Action. The book demonstrated strategies that we can use when working at school or when we need to use subtraction in our everyday lives. Let me show you what I know!
This week at school:
-ELA: word wall words, reading, writing sentences with 8 or more words.
-Math: single digit addition and subtraction
-Science: life of bats!
-Health: pillars of care
Reminders:
-Library tomorrow, return books!
-Home reading tonight, complete and return tomorrow
-Message from CBE: The Calgary Board of Education is committed to providing students and staff with a welcoming, caring, respectful and safe learning environment that respects diversity and fosters a sense of belonging. With this in mind, the CBE is creating a system-wide Student Code of Conduct (Administrative Regulation 6005) with input from students, parents and CBE employees. This new code of conduct will apply to all CBE schools, and beginning in the 2016/17 school year, individual schools will no longer have their own codes of conduct. All CBE students are expected to abide by the new system regulation, which will be posted to our Administrative Regulation page http://www.cbe.ab.ca/about-us/policies-and-regulations/Pages/Administrative-Regulations.aspx.
Wednesday, 4 May 2016
Hats on for Mental Health
Nice hats everyone! We all have our moments of struggle and many moments of successes. Thank you for supporting mental health awareness.
Today was a good, hard working day. We need lots of these from here on out because there are less then 40 days of school left!
Mrs. G is really starting to notice an improvement in our math skills and writing skills. Practicing our word wall words every day helps to remember the spelling rules when writing creative sentences or stories.
As long as the weather is nice Phys Ed will be outside. Please wear the appropriate clothing, this includes proper footwear. Flip-flops, sandals, etc. are not good options as they can cause more risk to our safety.
We spent some time today ketching up on work. Now that everyone is caught up we can wrap up our Nunavut unit this week and start new units next week. We still have so much to accomplish, it is important to work hard and work together to do our best and be most successful.
This afternoon we all earned a Calgary Flames Hockey card! As a class we reached 100 minutes of reading. We will continue this at school to earn cards. Please help me at home too, to earn then even quicker.
After working through math centers and having a body break, we ended the day by finishing the Magic School Bus novel about Arctic animals. There is so much information we have learned throughout this unit!
Tomorrow we will be starting a cool art activity for Arctic animals.
Reminders:
-Book orders coming home today, they are due back Friday
-Home reading tonight, complete and return tomorrow
-Music tomorrow, bring recorders
-Spring Concert is Wednesday May 25th. Please meet your teacher in your classroom between 6:00 and 6:15pm. First come, first serve seating
-I am looking for parent volunteers for Thursday June 2 for our trip to Storybook Theatre and Wednesday June 14 for out day trip to the zoo. Please let me know if you are willing to or able to volunteer for one or both of those trips.
Today was a good, hard working day. We need lots of these from here on out because there are less then 40 days of school left!
Mrs. G is really starting to notice an improvement in our math skills and writing skills. Practicing our word wall words every day helps to remember the spelling rules when writing creative sentences or stories.
As long as the weather is nice Phys Ed will be outside. Please wear the appropriate clothing, this includes proper footwear. Flip-flops, sandals, etc. are not good options as they can cause more risk to our safety.
We spent some time today ketching up on work. Now that everyone is caught up we can wrap up our Nunavut unit this week and start new units next week. We still have so much to accomplish, it is important to work hard and work together to do our best and be most successful.
This afternoon we all earned a Calgary Flames Hockey card! As a class we reached 100 minutes of reading. We will continue this at school to earn cards. Please help me at home too, to earn then even quicker.
After working through math centers and having a body break, we ended the day by finishing the Magic School Bus novel about Arctic animals. There is so much information we have learned throughout this unit!
Tomorrow we will be starting a cool art activity for Arctic animals.
Reminders:
-Book orders coming home today, they are due back Friday
-Home reading tonight, complete and return tomorrow
-Music tomorrow, bring recorders
-Spring Concert is Wednesday May 25th. Please meet your teacher in your classroom between 6:00 and 6:15pm. First come, first serve seating
-I am looking for parent volunteers for Thursday June 2 for our trip to Storybook Theatre and Wednesday June 14 for out day trip to the zoo. Please let me know if you are willing to or able to volunteer for one or both of those trips.
Monday, 2 May 2016
April Showers bring May Flowers
Welcome to a beautiful start to May. Hope everyone enjoyed their weekend!
Our word wall words this week have lots of family words and words that have the same sounds but different spellings. Check it out
Group A: cow, now, row, low, mow, day, may, play, clay, stay
Group B: trip, tree, back, zoo, root, quick, look, looked, pack, cook
Group C: please, believe, between, leave, easy, sea, been, seen, very, next
All this week, Phys. Ed will be outside! It is always nice to get that extra fresh air. It is also important to dress appropriately, including a hat and sunscreen. Bringing a water bottle to school isn't such a bad idea as well.
Mrs. Frizzle and her class taught us a little more about baby polar bears and arctic fox today!
-new born polar bears are less then 2lbs
-new born polar bears are blind, deaf, and helpless
-female polar bears can weigh between 330 and 660lbs and male polar bears can weigh up to 1600lbs!
-arctic fox shed their fur twice a year, in the winter the have a thick, white coat of hair and in the summer they have a thin, brownish grey coat of fur
This afternoon we continued working on our addition strategies for numbers 0-9. In a couple days we will move to double digit numbers and learn some new strategies.
We also are working through daily centers to promote further growth in specific areas - increasing patterns, sorting objects, graphing, and skip counting. Maybe you can help me practice at home too!
To finish off the day we had a discussion about bats. We drew a picture of a bat in our visual journal and then wrote every thing we already know about bats around it. Why are we doing this? Because we are starting a new novel study, Silverwing. As we work through this novel we will be tying it to our next science unit on Small, Flying, and Crawling animals. Our field trip to the zoo in June will also relate.
This week at school:
-Language Arts - word wall words, sentences - periods and capitols, novel study - Silverwing
-Math - addition strategies, single and double digit
-Science - small, flying, crawling animals
-Social Studies - wrap up Nunavut unit, arctic animals
Reminders:
-music tomorrow, bring recorders
-library tomorrow, bring back books
-Hats on for Mental Health on Wednesday - wear your favorite, silliest, coolest hat to support mental health awareness
P.S. take a look at how our Inuit etchings turned out!
After drawing our symbols on the front, we colored the inside, the same side as the drawn symbols.
Then, back to front page, we traced over the pencil markings with a pen. It was important that we pressed hard, not too hard that the paper ripped though.
When that was complete, open the paper and the symbols appear on the opposite side of where we colored. How cool!
Our word wall words this week have lots of family words and words that have the same sounds but different spellings. Check it out
Group A: cow, now, row, low, mow, day, may, play, clay, stay
Group B: trip, tree, back, zoo, root, quick, look, looked, pack, cook
Group C: please, believe, between, leave, easy, sea, been, seen, very, next
All this week, Phys. Ed will be outside! It is always nice to get that extra fresh air. It is also important to dress appropriately, including a hat and sunscreen. Bringing a water bottle to school isn't such a bad idea as well.
Mrs. Frizzle and her class taught us a little more about baby polar bears and arctic fox today!
-new born polar bears are less then 2lbs
-new born polar bears are blind, deaf, and helpless
-female polar bears can weigh between 330 and 660lbs and male polar bears can weigh up to 1600lbs!
-arctic fox shed their fur twice a year, in the winter the have a thick, white coat of hair and in the summer they have a thin, brownish grey coat of fur
This afternoon we continued working on our addition strategies for numbers 0-9. In a couple days we will move to double digit numbers and learn some new strategies.
We also are working through daily centers to promote further growth in specific areas - increasing patterns, sorting objects, graphing, and skip counting. Maybe you can help me practice at home too!
To finish off the day we had a discussion about bats. We drew a picture of a bat in our visual journal and then wrote every thing we already know about bats around it. Why are we doing this? Because we are starting a new novel study, Silverwing. As we work through this novel we will be tying it to our next science unit on Small, Flying, and Crawling animals. Our field trip to the zoo in June will also relate.
This week at school:
-Language Arts - word wall words, sentences - periods and capitols, novel study - Silverwing
-Math - addition strategies, single and double digit
-Science - small, flying, crawling animals
-Social Studies - wrap up Nunavut unit, arctic animals
Reminders:
-music tomorrow, bring recorders
-library tomorrow, bring back books
-Hats on for Mental Health on Wednesday - wear your favorite, silliest, coolest hat to support mental health awareness
P.S. take a look at how our Inuit etchings turned out!
After drawing our symbols on the front, we colored the inside, the same side as the drawn symbols.
Then, back to front page, we traced over the pencil markings with a pen. It was important that we pressed hard, not too hard that the paper ripped though.
When that was complete, open the paper and the symbols appear on the opposite side of where we colored. How cool!
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