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
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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.
