We had an awesome, magnificent and warm week.
In Science we have been continuing to build our simple machine parks. Some of us have started filming our videos and uploaded them onto IRIS. We added a description for our videos.
In Social Studies we have been working on our come to Alberta advertisement posters. First we created a plan with a title, slogan and six reasons of why settlers should come to Alberta. Then we made a good copy using our plan.
In Math we reviewed our check-in quiz this week. To help us prepare for the quiz, we practiced solving word problems using the CUBES strategy. On the quiz we had to choose a subtraction and addition strategy that we were most efficient at using to solve the problems. We had to explain why we used this strategy.
We have been working extra hard to show our families what we are capable of in our learning! We did a role play with peer(s) to prepare for what we are going to say to our families during student-led conferences. We will be sharing our progress and process in the work we doing in school.
Please have a wonderful SPRING BREAK!!!
Reminders:
- Student Led conferences are on Thursday, March 21 and Friday, March 22. Conference bookings can be make through the PHS website.
- Spring Break is from March 22nd to March 31st. School will resume on Monday, April 1st.
This week we had a wild, amazing and marvelous week.
In Science, we have been building our Simple Machines park. Based on our plan and our criteria, we are in the process of continuing to gather materials, build using our tools and continually revising our plan to match our playground equipment.
In Social Studies, we have been reading our textbook to learn about the settlers and how they first came to Alberta. We have been using a chart to organize the pros and cons describing the positive experiences and the struggles that settlers faced when coming to and living in Alberta.
- A pro was that settlers could purchase a colonist car to travel with. The colonist car were versatile in that you could transport your personal belongings and then make room for sleeping.
- A con was that they had to share 1 bunk and 1 meal when traveling to Canada by ship. Once they arrived on the East coast of Canada, settlers had to take a long ride to Alberta by train. This took around 8 days.
In Math, we had our practice check-in quiz on Wednesday and then our actual check-in quiz on Thursday for addition and subtraction strategies.
In Language Arts, we have been working on revising our Cat/Rat Perspective using peer and teacher feedback. Some of us are printing our final copies.
This week, we also had a drama performance by grade 10 students from Diefenbaker Highschool. Their performance was hilarious, hysterical and amusing.
Reminders:
- Student Led conferences are on Thursday, March 21 and Friday, March 22. Conference bookings can be make through the PHS website.
- Miss Kreze will begin Music tests starting next week. Please have your child practice the material provided.
- We will not be having Daily 5 next week due the shorter week.
- Spring Break is from March 22nd to March 31st. School will resume on Monday, April 1st.
- We will be constructing playground parks for our simple machine unit, so please continue collecting items to use for the project such as, popsicle sticks, cardboard, straws, bottle caps, string, cardstock, pipecleaner, rubber bands, plastic lids/containers, tinfoil, thimbles, buttons, toothpicks, sticky tack, etc. If you have a glue gun and/or Lego people that you are willing to bring in that would be very much appreciated.
Have a great weekend!
In Science, we started the week with our field study. On our field study we went outside and tested the playground equipment. To document our observations we...
- named the equipment (ex. slides, monkey bars, climbing rock ramp, seesaw, spinning seat, spinning banana)
- identified the motion (friction, gravity, push, pull)
- observed the speed (increasing, decreasing)
- named the type of simple machine (inclined plane, wheel and axle, lever)
- drew a diagram and identified the different parts
In Math, we reviewed the C.U.B.E.S. strategy to help us solve word problems.
C - Circle the key numbers
U - Underline the question
B - Box the math words
E - Equation with an equals sign
S - Solve and check
In Social Studies, we have been researching the pros and cons about coming to Alberta as a newcomer. From our research we found out that Newcomers were offered 160 acres of free land with a registration fee of $10, however, they were required to build a house, prepare farmland and live on the land for 3 years. This would be a pro because you get 160 acres for $10, but would be a con because there are a lot of conditions like having to prepare the farmland.
We have been using peer feedback to edit the initial draft of our Rat or Cat Perspective writing. We had to read our peer feedback and determine if it was effective or ineffective feedback to use. Effective feedback is when the reader gives specific feedback by providing evidence/examples from our writing. Ineffective feedback is when the reader gives non-specific feedback, such "You did good!, I like your work!, You included voice!".
Our spelling pattern next week:
The vowel pairs ai and ay make the /ā/ sound you hear in waist and fray. Diphthongs are different from vowel pairs in that the 2 vowels blend together to make one sound. The diphthongs oi and oy make the /ōi/ sound you hear in voices
Some examples include:
voices
sprain
noises
disloyal
employ
waist
destroyed
fray
broiling
swaying
displays
praised
disappoint
railroad
royalty
appointed
crayon
boiling
soybean
spoiled
Reminders:
- We will be constructing playground parks for our simple machine unit, so please continue collecting items to use for the project such as, popsicle sticks, cardboard, straws, bottle caps, string, cardstock, pipecleaner, rubber bands, plastic lids/containers, tinfoil, thimbles, buttons, toothpicks, sticky tack, etc.
- If you have a glue gun and/or Lego people that you are willing to bring in that would be very much appreciated.
