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June 15 2018

June has been a busy month with Sports Day and field trips.

This week the students in room 12 and 14 went to the Calgary Zoo.  In our inquiry work we have been looking at the question "What does a modern zoo need to think about when designing enclosures to meet the needs of humans and animals".  Students have researched an animal and designed an enclosure for their animal to live in.  Animals need: enrichment, food, water for drinking and cooling, health care, vegetation, shelter, companionship.  The best things that we saw at the zoo:

Arpit - "The bears because the were running around, climbing, playing in the water, chasing each other".

Reet "the pandas because the cubs kept on eating"

Lliam - 'There were two pandas sleeping"

Kaleb - "The lemurs because they can do basically whatever they want, they can play, climb and hide"

Dev ' I liked the Lemurs because both of the species were separated so they wouldn't fight"

Next week is our last full week of school.  We will be working on 3D models and digital presentations for our enclosures. 

The last day of school is June 27th and it is a half day.  Students will be starting to bring home their work next week so they should make sure they have a bag. 

Library Books are now due!  Please return all books to the learning commons. 

Next Wednesday will be fun pizza lunch for lunchroom students. 

May 25th

This week in Gym we have been playing soccer outside.  As long as the weather is nice, we will be having gym outside.  That means we should be bringing water bottles, sun screen and hats. 

In Science we have started to learn about Animal Life Cycles.   We have some new pets in our class, they are Mealworms.  We have learned: They have teeth and claws.  They aren't actually worms but are larva that will turn into Darkling beetles.  We are feeding them sweet potatoes, oats and wheat germ.  They have a hard exoskeleton which sheds when they grow. 

In Social Studies we have made dolls representing the different countries that we have been studying this year. 

In Math we are working on fractions and decimals.  We have learned that fractions are equal parts of a whole.  A decimal is related to fractions and are less than one. 

Today we performed for the volunteer tea.  We are singing Hot Cross Buns, some students are playing recorders, xylophones and tone chimes.   We really appreciate all of the work that our volunteers do. 

We have been working on keeping our classroom tidier and our hard work has paid off and today we won The Golden Garbage Can!!

May 4 2018

Welcome to May, it has been a busy couple of weeks with swimming and we haven't had the chance to update our blog.  

In Science we are learning about hearing and sound.   We made an ear diagram with plasticine and labelled the different parts.  We are going to be building instruments out of recycled materials next week.  This week we planned our instruments.  We needed to decide what materials we were using, what type of instrument and how it is going to work.  The criteria for our instruments is that they need to be able change volume and pitch.  These are controlled by vibrations in sound waves.   

Last Friday we had a Jump Rope for Heart assembly.  We learned about FAST - Face, Arms, Speech, and time, these are all signs of a stroke and you should call 911 if you notice someone is having these symptoms.  We are raising money for the Heart and Stroke foundation, bring back the envelopes on Thursday May 17th.  

This week in Social Studies we started to learn about Peru.  Peruvians use Llama and Alpaca wool to make clothing.   In Peru if something is too heavy for them to carry, they put them on Llamas to help carry things.  Peru is located in South America, they speak Spanish and English.  

This week we did some research about chicken development.  We learned that they are in the shell for about 21 days, that they use the yolk for food while in the egg and that they have an egg tooth to help them get out of the shell.  Farmer Mark came to look at the chicks on Tuesday.   He is expecting them to hatch next week, unfortunately we had some disappointing news about the chicks, only 2 of our eggs are viable.  

On Wednesday, we were lucky enough to have Quest Theatre come to our school and put on a performance of the play "We Are All Treaty People".  In this play A Trickster poses the question of whether friendship can exist between two girls who don’t understand the shared history between their cultures.  It explores the historical significance of the events at Blackfoot Crossing in 1877, while investigating the consequences and implications of Treaty 7, 139 years later. In the afternoon, the entire school came together to take part in a round dance in the gym.  

April 13th 2018

We are starting swimming next Monday.  Students need to bring their towels, bathing suits, brush and plastic bag to school.  If they wear their bathing suit under their clothes, they need to make sure that they bring underwear with them.  We will be swimming right after lunch, the bus leaves at 12:45, on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday and then the following Monday and Tuesday.

Next week is also parent teacher interviews.  There are still a number of students who have not booked.  Please book online or call the office to book an appointment as soon as possible. 

This week in Math, Mrs McLellan's group had a challenging problem to solve using multiplication and division strategies, it took us all week to be able to solve it.  We will be changing math groups on Monday. 

In gym this week we have been continuing games that involve hand eye coordination such as badminton.  We have found badminton to be challenging. 

In science this week, we are learning about how humans and animals hear and some of the similarities and differences between them. 

Here is the link for our science research today.

April 6 2018

Welcome back from Spring Break.  The weather sure doesn't feel very spring like.  The weather is supposed to warm up next week, students need to come to school wearing appropriate footwear for the conditions.

This week in Social Studies we are continuing to learn about Ukraine.  We started a slide show presentation on google slides.  We can log on at home to share these with our families.   We also made Pysanka this week out of paper mache, they are Ukrainian Easter eggs.   We will be decorating them next week.

In Math, Miss McLeod's group has been working on multiplication challenges.  The students in Mrs McLellan's group are creating Array Cities.  Ms Greaves group has been working on skip counting and making arrays to organize for multiplication.

In Science, we are starting to learn about hearing and sound.  We talked about how hearing can affect our quality of life.  We learned that sound travels in waves and they cause the bones in your eardrum to vibrate.

Next week the conference manager will be opening for parents to book their parent teacher interviews that are happening April 19th and 20th.