Nov 13 - 16

A Few Reminders:

Thanks Mrs. Horrocks for making these graphics!

Christmas Season is coming up Quick!

ELA

Writing

To build on our Parts of Speech discussion last week, surrounding nouns, verbs and adjectives. We're working on building strong sentences that use adjectives to add detail. We are also working through the 5W's - who, what, where, when and why to extend and stretch their sentences. Next week we will work on varying sentence starters by putting question words at the beginning of their sentencces. 

Math 

 This week we have been working on comparing numbers to 10 000 using base ten blocks, expanded form and numerals (standard form). 

Students also spent time playing some review games, working with die and place value. 

We will have a quiz on Monday. 

SCIENCE 

We checked in on our experiments from last week! I think our leaf of lettuce has seen some better days. What we could find left of it showed us how organic waste can decompose in just a week! 

Kirkland toilet paper happened to be the brand that breaks down the best! Well done Costco! 

Next week, we will be collecting all our garbage over the course of the week to see how much waste we create. On Friday we spent sometime thinking of our waste we might create and how we can pre-sort it. Students came up with their own categories of who we will label and collect waste next week.

SOCIAL

Students were so lucky to have Mr. Maltais come in this week and work on a special tech project with them! Using Google MyMaps, students created the 6 natural regions of Alberta. They also added major cities in Alberta, and can see which region they are in. 

We will add images to these maps throughout the unit.

ART

This week we talked about the Elements of Art; these are the tools used to create art. 

We focused on different types of lines, as throughout the year we will do different line art projects. Students opened their sketchbooks and dedicated a page to different lines. Using google they looked up different lines.