Thursday

Ted Harrison paintings were our inspiration for our special bookmarks for our special Dr. Coffin volunteers today!
He lived with his family in Yukon and was inspired by the beautiful land around him to paint.
You can look up more of his paintings and his story at www.tedharrison.ca
Ask me which colours I chose for my painting.


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Wednesday

In the morning we started Arctic Tales - story writing with a plan! One was about a fox that was hungry...ask me who my characters are and what the problem will be.

In Math groups,  Mrs. Armour's group picked a handful of yellow blocks and sorted them into groups to find out if the number was odd or even and then divided them into groups of 2, 3, 4, 5...

Mrs. Hamby's group tried to show all the different ways to make a number. 

In Mrs. Yoon's group we worked on double facts (4+4, 5+5, 6+6).

Ask me what I worked on.

After recess, we worked on final details of our Arctic paper bag book. 

Swimming this afternoon! Some of us are quite hungry after swimming so thank you for packing an extra snack for the end of the day. 

TOMORROW IS LIBRARY but we will be swimming so we will try and find a time in the morning.

Important date to remember! Wednesday, May 22nd we will be going to GLENBOW MUSEUM for a field trip. Details coming soon. We will need volunteers so if you can check if you are available that would be great. 

Tuesday - Swim Day!

Monday today! Tuesday swim tomorrow!

We split into Math groups today. Ask me what we did. In Mrs. Armour's group we tried to show a number in 3 or 4 different ways.  (So if the number was "8" we could write 4+4, or 10-2, or 8+0)

We started a page in our Art Journal to document our Acadian Adventure. Ask me what pictures and words I started with today.

For Gym we played mini soccer games.

TOMORROW, Wednesday and Thursday we are going SWIMMING! Thank you for packing a
SWIM SUIT, TOWEL, in a separate plastic (waterproof) bag. 

Fresh Air Friday - April showers bring May flowers

Today we studied how to draw flowers for a special surprise! We drew a tulip, daisy and then went outside to hunt for crocuses! We discovered from the First Nations people that the leaves can be used for both harm (sting and cause possible blisters!) and good (made into a mush and put on skin to relieve inflammation) but we decided the best thing was to just observe and not touch!

Happy Birthday to Emmaline!

We also worked on adding details to our Signs of Spring posters.

Have a great weekend!

SWIMMING DAYS and VOLUNTEERS (here is what I have - please confirm with Mrs. Armour if the days are different or have changed for you - thank you so much!) We will be walking with Room 1 and Room 4.

Swim Time: 1:40 - 2:20pm We will leave by 1:15 to walk to the pool and plan to be back at school no later than 3:00pm.

Tuesday May 7 - Larysa
Wednesday May 8 - Larysa, Emily
Thursday May 9 - Larysa, Candice

Monday May 13 - Adrienne, Precious, Emily
Tuesday May 14 - Larysa, Adrienne, Jessie
Thursday May 16 - Adrienne, Larysa

Thursday - Salute!

Today we learned a new math game called, "Salute!" All you need is a deck of cards. You can play with 2 - 4 people. If you have 3 or 4 people, choose one person to be the "general" (and switch every turn). If only have 2 people, you don't need a "general"

Start with a pile of cards in the middle (use only the number cards you want 1- 5 or 1 - 10 Ace being 1, or all the face cards being 10, or for a challenge Jack being 11, Queen being 12, King being 13!)

2 people take a card and without looking at it, put it on their own forehead (a salute), then the general looks at both cards and says, "Altogether your cards add up to...." Whoever looks at the other person's card and figures out what their card is first wins those cards and someone else takes the turn to be general.

There are a lot of variations to this game so please ask or email if you want more clarification! Playing cards are a great, fun way to practice number facts because you can always find easier or more challenging ways to add, subtract, multiply and divide. You can even give clues by saying "more than..." or "less than..."

It was Library day today.

We had gym outside and ran a big "Terry Fox" lap! We practiced with frisbees.

If we were finished our Arctic Paper Bag book, we could work on our Chromebooks. Ask me if I did writing, math, or reading games!

FRESH AIR FRIDAY - Dress for the weather!

Family Dance tomorrow night!

May 1st - Acadian Adventure

It's the first of May even though it doesn't feel like it outside!

Today we had a great Acadian Adventure!

Ask us what we discovered and what Ms. Mac discovered with her friend when they went to her great, great grandparents house in Nova Scotia!

Thanks to Jared's mom and Joel's mom for volunteering to help us run the stations!

Ask us what games, musical instruments, jobs, buildings, chores and transportation the Acadians used hundreds of years ago!