Feb 25 - March 1

A Few Reminders: 

• Mar 5 - BOKS Starts again 
• Mar 9 - RBES Girls Floor Hockey Tournament 
• Mar 13 - Student Led Conferences
• Mar 14 - 20 - Raga Revolution
• Mar 22 - PD Day No School
• Mar 23 - April 1 SPRING BREAK

PINK SHIRT DAY!

Wow, what a beautiful sea of Pink! 

We spent some time talking about Kindness in our class, how we can spread kindness and make others feel special. Students got together in small groups to brainstorm 20 things they could do to spread Kindness. We used Soulpancake's Kid President to help us brainstorm. 

Students searched the internet for quotes surrounding kindness that connected with them and added them to their list as well. Using graphic designers created by Danielle Knight, we started adding our ideas using fun fonts, sketchnote icons and colours. 

We used our sketchnote skills as well, adding icons to our work, representing the things we can say or do to spread kindness. 

Here are some completed ones!

ELA 

To go along with our theme of Kindness for the week, we read the book Extra Yarn by Jon Klassen. Students would be able to make each type of connection with this book, as we have read from this author before! He wrote This is Not My Hat and I Want My Hat Back - both we have read in class. Characters from these books popped up in this story as well! This was a quick way for students to make a Text to Text connection. 

 Before reading, we discussed the different ways we can connect to text and came up with some movements to help us remember. (Ask your child if they can remember!)

Text to Text

Text to Self 

Text to World 

Then, as I read, I would pause and do a check in and have students use the signals to show what connections they could make. Once we were done reading, on stickie notes students wrote their connections and added them to the board. We will continue this type of activities with various books throughout the year.

Book Clubs are wrapping up! Chocolate Fever has finished their book, and followed Henry Green on his wild adventure! As a closing activity, students were asked to create their own FEVER! What treat, or favourite thing, would you get a fever from? What would that fever look, smell or feel like?

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory students are about3/4 of the way through their book! As we read about all of the fantastic treats in Wonka's factory, I have asked them to stop and think - what magnificent treat would you invent? 

We are hoping to have all Book Clubs wrapped up so we can start a whole class Novel Study in March!

In grammar our focus was on irregular plurals. Some words, when plural don't change at all! To jump start the lesson, the students were given words and had to find their partner (i.e. child, children). Once they were in pairs they determined which was the plural form, and we created a list of the different irregular plurals. 

MATH 

This week we worked in smal groups and ran stations. I spent time working with students one on one, through various mental math strategies to solve multiplication problems. We worked through strategies that used multiples of 10, breaking up harder problems into smaller, easier problems, and using doubles.

Students also spent time learning a few games where they could practice they multiplication basic facts! 

Multiplication Battleship!

Multiplication War

SCIENCE

We have begun to build! There are some seriously amazing marble tracks in this room! Kids are working hard in their groups, and are using their knowledge of simple machines!

 SOCIAL
We have been digging deeper into Alberta's Natural Resources. Through readings and discussion we have looked at fossil fuels, oil sands, alternative energy, agriculture and forestry.

EXCITING NEWS!

You may have heard from your child on Friday... I am lucky enough to have the opportunity to spend a year abroad teaching! After this year, I will be away in the UK for one year. This has been a lifelong dream of mine, and I am so excited!