Week 20

We had a delightful, wonderful and joyful week.

In Science, we have been continuing to learn about convex and concave lenses. A convex lens is curved out and makes objects look bigger. A concave lens is thinner in the middle and thicker on the outside making objects look smaller. We conducted two experiment this week: The Broken Pencil Experiment and the Lenses Experiment. We gained some experience with the Scientific Method (Question, Hypothesis, Materials, Procedure, Observations, Conclusion).

In Math, we have learned the "Open Number Line" subtraction strategy. We start by writing down the bigger number (from our number sentence) on our number line. We minus the thousands/hundreds from our smaller number, then we subtract the tens, and finally we subtract the ones. We needed to make sure we broke up numbers so that our difference was a friendly number. 

 

In Social Studies, we presented the research we gathered for our First Nation peoples. We shared information about their family life, jobs and roles, and traditional clothing/food, stories and legends, transportations, beliefs/customs, languages, their daily life, celebration, art/music/dance, and other facts. 

We have been continuing to work with Cathy Beveridge. This week we created a Nisitapi boy or girl character. We made a poem to describe their personality, character/physical traits, dreams, fears, regrets, their family role, what they're proud of and clothing. When we created names for our characters the first word in their name was an adjective (descriptive word) and the second word in their name was something you find in nature, such as the names Lone Wolf, Shooting Star, Summer Waterfall, Rotten Squirrel, and Blue Beaver.

Reminders:

Valentines Day - Children are invited to bring cards for their classmates on Wednesday, Feb 13th to exchange. To avoid any hurt feelings, please send cards for every student in your child’s class. Of course, this is optional and you may choose not to participate. Due to CBE policy there can be no food items and/or candy with the Valentine cards.

Report Card Envelopes - Please return your report card envelopes (and thanks if you already have!)

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.