Week 21

We had a experiential, wonderful and lovely week.

We have been continuing to work with Cathy Beveridge. This week we practiced our descriptive writing pieces based on our 4 frame plan. We wrote about a moment in our First Nations character life that provoked a strong emotion. 

In Math, we worked on a couple of open-ended math problems. These included Subtraction Surprise and Triangular Numbers. 

Here were some of our solutions for the problem Triangular Numbers.

In Social Studies, we started our partner and group research about fur trading Alberta. 

We will be starting our new unit in Science, "Wheels and Levers". Last week we had our Mad Science presentation. Our presenter was not only knowledgable, but also very crazy, hilarious and silly! We learned about pulleys, inclined planes, levers, wedge and screws. 

Next week, our next spelling pattern is:

In vowel pairs, two vowels come together to make one long vowel sound. The second vowel is silent.   

In vowel diagraphs, 2 vowels come together to make a vowel sound that can be long or short. 

Example:

vowel pairs

 between 

vowel diagraphs

eagle

Practice Words

between 

eastern 

breeze 

clues 

hoed 

meaning 

tiptoes 

reason 

treating 

roasted 

freedom

loaned 

approach 

measure 

glued 

instead 

eagle 

boasted 

fleet 

meadow

Reminders:

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.

No School Days - There is no school this upcoming Thursday, Friday and Monday.