Agenda: 1 Read 2 No School on Friday 3 Field trip forms returned Monday please! 4 Great Vocabulary challenge - keep trying to use your word over the weekend! 5 Scholastic due Feb 8 6 Report cards, water bottles and hoops are coming home. Highlights What did you learn today? We finished our musical instruments today. How did you show what you learned? We built our instrument, we wrote down materials, procedure, diagram with labels and we tested our instruments and made observations. What do you need to learn next? We need to make a conclusion about our instrument changing pitch and do a demonstration to the rest of the class.
Agenda: 1 Read 2 No School Friday 3 Spelling Test 4 Field Trip Forms going home today. Please have them back ASAP. 5 Scholastic Forms due Feb 8 6 Report Cards are coming home tomorrow. 7 Hoop Dancing Performance at 1:30pm in the gym. Everyone is welcome to watch. Highlights What did you learn today? We learned about water as a resource in Alberta. How did you show what you learned? We watched a video on some things that have water in them or use water to make them. It was astonishing, heart breaking, surprising, mind boggling and shocking how much water each Canadian person uses on a daily basis. What do you need to learn next? We need to learn about ways we can reduce our water use. One thing we can try to do is STOP buying bottled water.
Agenda: 1 Read - Tomorrow is mini book review day 2 No School Friday - spelling test Thursday and word work is due Thursday also 3 Please continue with the great vocabulary challenge at your home 4 Scholastic orders due Feb 8 5 Highlights What did you learn today? We learned about many different products that are made out of wood. Ask me some of the surprising ones. How did you show what you learned? We watched a video of different products that are made out of wood. What do you need to learn next? We will be looking at Alberta's water resource next.
Agenda: 1 Read 2 No School next Friday - spelling test will be on Thursday 3 Still need volunteers for the field trip to National Music Center on Feb 6. Please email me if you are available and have security clearance. Highlights What did you learn today? We went outside and we were looking for different plants that had cures for symptoms and uses for making things. This science is called Ethnobotany.
Agenda: 1 Read 2 Bring in any materials that you may need to complete your instrument tomorrow 3 FAF - please dress for the weather Highlights What did you learn today? We learned how to make instruments. What were some of the challenges you had?
attaching strings in the right way so that they would stick and make the right noise
taping the straws together in the smallest to biggest
tying knots in elastics without them snapping
trying to tape straws together
taping cups from one bottle to another
making the frame for my instrument
taping the end to the rest of the guitar
What do you need to learn next? We need to finish building and demonstrate how our instruments make different pitches.
Agenda: 1 Read - Congratulations to all the people who have been reading books and doing their mini book reports! 2 coming home tonight is a package of math work. Please show your parents your work. This is the things we have been working on since the November conferences. 3 Please make sure you have brought the materials you need for instruments because we will be starting to build our instruments tomorrow. 4 We are going on a field trip to the National Music Center on February 6. We will need 4 volunteers that have current security clearance. Please email Ms Cowdy if you are available. kjcowdy@cbe.ab.ca Highlights What did you learn today? We learned about forestry in Social Studies today. How did you show what you learned? We filled out a bubble of what things can be made out of wood and we listened to Ms Cowdy's stories about working in the forestry industry. What do you need to learn next? We are going watch the video and see what else is made from wood.
Agenda: 1 Read 2 Word Work sort words for Ms Cowdy's group are coming home. Students should be trying to do at least two different sorts per week. 3 Two tickets for any Roughneck Lacrosse game are coming home tonight. Highlights What did you learn today? In Lacrosse today, we learned a few skills like how to shoot, how to pass, how to pick up and throw the ball, how to properly hold the stick while you run with it and we learned how to catch. Our instructor's name was Bob Snider. How did you show what you learned? We practiced these skills by playing a game. What do you need to learn next? We need to continue to practice these skills on our own as Bob was only here for two days.
Agenda: 1 Read 2 Red Duotangs are in your backpack if you are not done or you have empty orange circles which means you have some corrections to do. 3 Tomorrow is library - please put your books in the bin in the am 4 Treat day - bring your quarters 5 Circles and Stars - Teach your parents how to play:
Highlights What did you learn today? We learned how to make a city out of arrays in art. How did you show what you learned? We created a border and a sidewalk on a piece of cardstock in preparation for our art project. What do you need to learn next? We need to cut out and create our multiplication sentence buildings.
Agenda: 1 Read 2 We will begin building our recycled material instruments at school next Thursday. We need to bring in materials to make Musical instruments. Please bring what you need and if you have any of these other things that you want to bring in for others to use, please do. DO NOT BUY ANYTHING! DO NOT BUILD YOUR INSTRUMENT AT HOME. paper towel rolls, cardboard boxes, shoeboxes, cereal boxes, plastic yogurt/margarine containers, straws, popsicle sticks, wood, pole/sticks, string, thick ribbon, tape, paint, old pencil crayons, plastic spoons, plastic pipes, water bottle caps, fabric, plastic water bottles, food colouring, styrofoam tray, tissue box, marbles, 3 Highlights What did you learn today? We How did you show what you learned? We What do you need to learn next? We
Agenda: 1 Read 2 Fun Lunch tomorrow 3 Highlights What did you learn today? We learned that Alberta grows a lot of wheat, barley, canola, green and yellow peas. We also raise a lot of beef cattle. How did you show what you learned? We read through a sheet and watched a video about farming in Alberta. We wrote down two facts that we learned from the video. What do you need to learn next? We need to answer the THICK question, "What do you think makes Alberta a great place for agriculture?" Ask your parents what they think!
Agenda: 1 Read 2 Fun Lunch on Thursday 3 Highlights What did you learn today? We learned about solar energy and wind energy. How did you show what you learned? We read about these sources of alternative energy and we highlighted the advantages in green and the disadvantages in pink. What do you need to learn next? We need to learn about more resources in Alberta like agriculture and forestry.
Agenda: 1 Read - when a book on your list has been finished you can get a mini book report from Ms. Cowdy and fill it out. When your parent has initialled the back of your sheet bring it back for a reward. 2 Fun Lunch is Thursday Jan 17 3 Library tomorrow, please bring your books back. Put them in the bin first thing tomorrow am. Highlights What did you learn today? We continued working on our snowmen at night art. How did you show what you learned? We rewatched the video and put the light and the shadows on and we finished it off with some details like hats, eyes, mouths, carrots, scarfs, arms etc. What do you need to learn next? Things we would like to learn next in art are:painting project, making journals, bridge drawings, how to draw portraits, strategies on how to do art, learning to write in calligraphy, draw your favourite cake. Not CHEESECAKE.
Agenda: 1 Read - Please bring your list in Monday 2 Fun Lunch next Thursday 3 Highlights What did you learn today? We learned to nature journal today. How did you show what you learned? We made some obervations about the weather and the outdoors. We found a magic spot and sketched 2-3 objects we found on the ground near us. We drew them life size and used a ruler to measure them. We also made a landscape sketch from our magic spot. What do you need to learn next? We need to go back to our magic spot to sketch the changes we see in a month from now. Check out some amazing journalling by Ezra and Chelsea!
Agenda: 1 Read - Still waiting for your lists - due tomorrow 2 Some people have overdue library books - the lists are coming home tonight. Your overdues are due to Mrs Kidd tomorrow! If you cannot bring them back she would like a note or email from your parents explaining why. Her email is dckidd@cbe.ab.ca 3 Tomorrow is FAF - please dress for the weather 4 Next Thursday is Fun Lunch Highlights What did you learn today? We learned who is for the oil sands and who is against. How did you show what you learned? We watched some videos and then filled in a sheet on our opinion. What do you need to learn next? We are going to learn about alternate energy sources.
Agenda: 1 Read - Please hand in your list by the end of the week. 2 Fun Lunch is next Thursday, January 17 3 Word Work practice sheet are coming home tonight. Please try to do at least two different sorts this week.
Highlights What did you learn today? We continued learning multiplication using a 100-chart. How did you show what you learned? We filled in the 100-chart using different colours counting by 3, 4, 5, 6... What do you need to learn next? We have to do
Agenda: 1 Read - Please hand in your list by the end of the week. 2 Fun Lunch is next Thursday, January 17 3 Word Work practice sheet are coming home tonight. Please try to do at least two different sorts this week. Highlights What did you learn today? We learned more about the oil sands. How did you show what you learned? We watched a video about the advantages and facts about the oil sands and we made a partial list of things we learned from the video. What do you need to learn next? We need to watch the video again to get more information.
Agenda: 1 Read-Can you write me a list of chapter books (not graphic novels)at your reading level that you would like read before Spring Break. Please hand it in to me this week. 2 Problem of the Day is New Years and I have marked all your previous POD's so you can do your corrections and let me know and I will remark. 3 Highlights What did you learn today? We learned how to draw snowmen at night. How did you show what you learned? We are working on shadow and light in our artwork. What do you need to learn next? We we have to add the colours onto our snowmen to show, light, shadow and details of the characters.
