Week 18

We had a fantastic, magnificent and exciting week.

In Social Studies, we are researching about different First Nation peoples. We are learning more about: their culture, traditional food, traditional clothing, celebrations, their jobs and roles, beliefs and customs, music, art and dance, forms of transportation, languages, legends and stories, how they live/lived and their way of life and other facts. 

 In Science, we have been learning how light reacts to different objects. We have been using mirrors and different objects to see if they reflect or don't reflect light. Most objects that are shiny and smooth reflect light such as a cd or a spoon. Objects that are dull and rough usually don't reflect light.

In Math, we learned a new strategy called "chunking". This strategy involves taking chunks aways from the smaller number. We start by taking away the biggest place value in the smaller number - starting with the thousands, hundreds, tens and ones. We have been continuing to working on becoming more efficient at using this strategy by racing against our classmates.

For Health, we are continuing to learn about the Growth Mindset. We watched and discussed the videos on ClassDojo about the Growth Mindset. Here is a link to the videos: https://ideas.classdojo.com/b/growth-mindset

Passion Projects!

This week, Japneet presented her Passion Project on Narwhals. Her guiding questions were "What do Narwhals use their tusks for?" and "How long are Narwhals tusks?" . We learned that males tusks can grow between 8.8-9.0 feet, but the females tusks grow much smaller (the size is undetermined). 

This week, Sophie presented her Passion Project on Halloween. Her guiding question was "When was Halloween made?" and "Who came up with it?". We learned that a group called Celts, an ancient group, thought that the spirits/ghosts from the graveyards came out to haunt so they would put on costumes to ward them off and give them treats to make them happy. The Scottish and Irish immigrants came to Canada and they started the Halloween celebration, which was one of their traditions from their homeland. 

Morning Prompts!

Today we watched and discussed Planet Three. Here is the video link: https://vimeo.com/channels/theplanets/62799909

Next week, our next spelling pattern is:

Words ending in Y: When a word ends in y preceded by a consonant, change the y to i before adding an ending, unless adding the ending ing.  

Example:

worry + es = worries 

dry + ing = drying 

copy + ed = copied 

try + ing = trying

Practice Words

•  tries​
• carried​
• worries​
• buying​
• satisfied​
• relying​
• denies​
• copied​
• emptied​
• hurrying
• cries​
• buries​
• multiplied​
• replies​
• supplied​
• drying​
• petrified​
• frying​
• applied​
• scurrying

Reminders:

Winter Weather Clothes - Please remember to have children bring snow pants and boots during the colder, wet season. The field can get very wet as snow melts. Extra socks in their backpack would be great as well.