October 5th- Weekly Blog
Happy Friday!
RemindersField Trip forms are due on October 9th 2018. We are still looking for a few volunteers for this field trip. If you have a volunteer clearance and are able to attend please let your child’s homeroom teacher know as soon as possible.
Humanities In class this week we started to discuss Canadian identity and how we would define it. From the list the students generate they wrote an Ode to that item. Ask your child, what they decided to write about. If students were not done their rough copy they brought it home to complete over the weekend. The good copy will be completed in class.
Red Journals The students were asked: “What is your opinion of Holes? Provide 3 reasons to defend your opinion.” The purpose of the red journal is for you to see what we have been doing in class and to see the connections your child is making to the work. It is a great way to start a conversation about their knowledge and understanding in Humanities. I appreciate the signatures so that I can see that you are seeing the work they are producing.
Health 5-4 We have been talking about healthy eating and having a balance diet. The students in 5-4 were asked to keep a record of the food they ate on one of the days this weekend. They were also asked to include any physical activity they may have done on that day. Please bring it to class on Tuesday.
Math/Science: In math this week we looked at a Terry Fox word problem- this was a little more challenging but we used the 4 step problem solving model to help us and went through it as a whole class after working on it independently. During the later part of the week we starting talking about what 1 million looks like. The students were challenged to consider if they could eat a million of something, and if yes, what it would be. Students came up with some very inventive ideas- grains of rice, grains of sugar, etc. We decided to investigate eating 1 million nerd candies and proceeded to count out the amount of nerds in a single 47g container. Students showed lots of different strategies for counting- grouping, skip counting, etc. Next week we will take our data, number of actual nerd candies in each package, find the average and determine how many nerd packages would be needed to get 1 million. It was a very fun week and students did very well at controlling their desire to eat all the nerds!
In science we continued our exploration of the different types of wetlands found in Alberta. We looked to define, describe and draw pictures of each type to better understand how they differ from one another. Next week we will look more closely at the life cycle of plants and animals.
Have a great long weekend and see you Tuesday, October 9th 2018.
