Thursday February 12, 2014

Happy Long Weekend,

Here are some projects that we are working on in our class...

Yesterday we had the chance to have Constables Sue and Dan from the Calgary Police Service visit our class to share and discuss how we all have super hero Inside Strengths (honesty, courage, kindness, etc)  The students came up with an impressive list of inner strengths and really understood how they can use their personal strengths to be a hero in their every day lives.

Their talk also connected to the Virtue of the Month: Initiative and the students were asked to ponder the question:  "Can you be a hero without demonstrating Initiative?"  We will follow this lesson by creating our own superheroes.



To further understand Initiative, in language arts, we are reading and reflecting on the book, Ryan and Jimmy and the Well in Africa That Brought Them Together"  Stay Tuned to find out more or ask your child to share what they have learned thus far.

On Tuesday, we started a project for our science topic, Waste in Our World.  Along with the grade 3/4's in Mr. Vanderlinden and Mrs. Turk's class, we collected, sorted and gather data about the trash in our school.   Using this data and our learning in science, we will analyse the data and create a presentation for next month's assembly.

In our Humanies studies, we are learning about the regions of Alberta.  Along with the other grade 3/4 class we are writing scripts and creating "Green Screen" news reports about the regions.  Ask your child for more details.

Homework:
- nightly reading, math problem of the week.

Problem of the Week (P.O.W)  We will review the problem on Friday in class!
 Bring in your answers!

At a school in Calgary, students collected 6 large bags of garbage after lunch.  If this is the average number of bags per day, how many bags would they collect after one week?

After 3 weeks, 5 weeks.  Challenge:  After one year?

Ask your child:
- About Initiative 

-Green Screen
-Ryan and Jimmy

Reminders:

Fancy Friday is on February 21st.  Students may dress in their fancy clothes and bring their fancy manners to school.  Don't have fancy clothes?  Wear a fancy TIE, SCARF, BELT etc... 

Please do not buy any special clothes for this day!!!