Important Dates:
September 27th- Field Trip: Calgary Zoo
September 28th- Orange Shirt Day Assembly (9am)
-Grade 3's will be hosting the assembly :)
-Parents are welcome to attend the assembly
Due:
Field trip forms!
Please bring in pictures and a magazine (if you have one related to something you are interested in) to create a collage on your visual journal :)
Curriculum updates:
We have been working on different thinking routines to help us document our learning in meaningful ways. These have included:
-See/Think/Wonder/Sketch- We have 5 mystery artifacts that we are looking at that Ms. Parent has brought in. They are all related in some way or another...but all we know so far is that they are a mystery! We have to use our observational skills to look closely at the objects, to notice small details and to use those observations to think about the artifacts and to ask good questions about the artifacts.
-Adventure Maps- These are great tools for summarizing a story or a lesson! We have read a couple stories this year where we practiced creating a map. We just started our first novel study called Dream Catcher. We will be summarizing our story through an adventure map! We will use the borders we have created to identify other important information such as characters, settings, problems and solutions
We will be learning a few more journal techniques this week to support us as we spend our first of three days at the zoo on Thursday!
Ms. Ferrari has started creating sculptures with us! We have talked about contour lines and creatures. We had a lot of fun getting started on our projects with her.
We have been reading some stories to help us understand that no all school experiences have been positive for everyone in the past. We are using this understanding to start working towards reconciliation in Canada for Indigenous people. We will be focusing on creating our assembly for the school next week! A couple of the books we have read were called When I was 8 and Not My Girl.
We started a KWL chart and began talking about what we know about Rocks and Minerals. We have been reading some books and even watched a short video. Ask me if I know what the three types of rocks are!
We created our BEST copy of The Best Part of Me writing assignment. We were learning how to formulate a paragraph- which included talking about what a sentence is. Ask me what I know about writing paragraphs.
We've had some Not Done Yet time to work on pages in our visual journal. We have also talked about what it means to be a responsible learning and why it is important to focus during work times.
We learned how to send an email, how to click a link to fill out a Google Form which focused on what we think about writing, how to open a new tab in Google Chrome and how to send a picture as an attachment (not to mention how to save a picture and then delete it when we are finished). We also spent a bit of time playing math games on www.mathplayground.com and tried out an initial session of coding.
We started talking about patterns: what makes a pattern, where they exist, what they can be made out of and what some of the different types of are as well.
We've continued to play math games that work on computation skills too :)
Here is some information about our assembly:
September 27th- Field Trip: Calgary Zoo
September 28th- Orange Shirt Day Assembly (9am)
-Grade 3's will be hosting the assembly :)
-Parents are welcome to attend the assembly
Due:
Field trip forms!
Please bring in pictures and a magazine (if you have one related to something you are interested in) to create a collage on your visual journal :)
Curriculum updates:
We have been working on different thinking routines to help us document our learning in meaningful ways. These have included:
-See/Think/Wonder/Sketch- We have 5 mystery artifacts that we are looking at that Ms. Parent has brought in. They are all related in some way or another...but all we know so far is that they are a mystery! We have to use our observational skills to look closely at the objects, to notice small details and to use those observations to think about the artifacts and to ask good questions about the artifacts.
-Adventure Maps- These are great tools for summarizing a story or a lesson! We have read a couple stories this year where we practiced creating a map. We just started our first novel study called Dream Catcher. We will be summarizing our story through an adventure map! We will use the borders we have created to identify other important information such as characters, settings, problems and solutions
We will be learning a few more journal techniques this week to support us as we spend our first of three days at the zoo on Thursday!
Ms. Ferrari has started creating sculptures with us! We have talked about contour lines and creatures. We had a lot of fun getting started on our projects with her.
We have been reading some stories to help us understand that no all school experiences have been positive for everyone in the past. We are using this understanding to start working towards reconciliation in Canada for Indigenous people. We will be focusing on creating our assembly for the school next week! A couple of the books we have read were called When I was 8 and Not My Girl.
We started a KWL chart and began talking about what we know about Rocks and Minerals. We have been reading some books and even watched a short video. Ask me if I know what the three types of rocks are!
We created our BEST copy of The Best Part of Me writing assignment. We were learning how to formulate a paragraph- which included talking about what a sentence is. Ask me what I know about writing paragraphs.
We've had some Not Done Yet time to work on pages in our visual journal. We have also talked about what it means to be a responsible learning and why it is important to focus during work times.
We learned how to send an email, how to click a link to fill out a Google Form which focused on what we think about writing, how to open a new tab in Google Chrome and how to send a picture as an attachment (not to mention how to save a picture and then delete it when we are finished). We also spent a bit of time playing math games on www.mathplayground.com and tried out an initial session of coding.
We started talking about patterns: what makes a pattern, where they exist, what they can be made out of and what some of the different types of are as well.
We've continued to play math games that work on computation skills too :)
Here is some information about our assembly:
On Friday, September 28th, we will be hosting an Orange Shirt Day Assembly to acknowledge Indigenous people's experiences in the Residential School System from the 1880's to 1996, where by Indigenous kids were removed from their homes and taken to schools. The students attending these schools were often mistreated and were forced to adapt to European culture, language and ways of being. Orange Shirt Day was created to honor the stories of First Nation children, like Phyllis Webstad, who attended St. Joseph's Residential School in Williams Lake, BC. Phyllis was excited to start school wearing a new, shiny orange shirt that her grandmother bought for her, however, it was taken away from her on her first day attending the school and it was never seen again. Orange Shirt Day is designated to tell the stories and experiences, as difficult as they are, so that we can move forward as a country and work towards reconciliation.
On Friday, we ask that all students where their favorite shirts to school to honor Phyllis and other First Nation children who attended residential schools. We also ask that students practice the song in the link below, which is a Cree song. Classes can talk about languages that we like to honor on Treaty 7 land.