Oct 15-19

Hello Parents,
In Room 5 this week, students learned how to write sentences in order to describe a process. They wrote a short paragraph about their leaf art, beginning their sentences with "First", "Second", "Third", "Fourth", and "Finally". They are up on our bulletin board if you'd like to see. We also created some Halloween scenes by cutting coloured paper and tearing blue paper for clouds.
In Science, students used eye droppers to stack drops of water onto a penny. They were surprised to discover they they could add close to 20 drops before it overflowed!
In Social Studies, we worked on the flags of Saskatchewan and Nunavut. We

also continued our work on one of Calgary's pioneers, Sam Livingston, in preparation for next week's trip to Heritage Park. It looks like we are going to enjoy pleasant weather for our trip!
Thanks for reading!

October 9 - 12

Hello Parents!
 In Language Arts this week, students wrote sentences about their long weekend. They were asked to use some describing words about something they smelled or tasted.  We also did some work on nouns. Students separated pictures into the categories of "people", "places", "things" and "animals". We did some keyboarding practice using laptops. Students should now know what "Home Row" is on the keyboard.
In Math, we have continued working on mastering our doubles facts for addition.
Bon Weekend,
Ian

October 1-5

Hello Parents!
Thanks to everyone for helping your child settle into a homework routine with our Spelling lessons, and for signing your child's Home Reading pages! We are continuing with reading assessments and have finished with nearly half the class. We did some writing on "Being Thankful" this week, and your child should be bringing this home today. In Math, we focused on addition strategies and played "Base 10 Bingo" to help with students' number sense. We had a fun outside PE session where we made a large game area in the deep snow to play "Fox and Hares"- ask your child about it!
In Art, we did a few painting sessions. The leaf stamping was particularly successful and we hope to have the opportunity to collect freshly fallen leaves again next week to try again.
I hope your family enjoys a nice long Thanksgiving weekend! School resumes on Tuesday, October 9. We will not do Spelling homework next seek since it will be a 4-day week.