Oct. 15

This morning we learned about our next project. We are going to make multi-media self-portraits. Multi-media means that we are going to use lots of different tools like paint, markers, paper, and other exciting things to make our portraits.

After recess we had a special assembly about Fresh Air Friday. We have each been given a special Fresh Air Friday backpack and a Dr. Coffin travel mug! We will be keeping these at school to use on Fresh Air Fridays.  We talked about some things that we might want to bring from home to put in our special backpacks. Here are a few ideas:

- travel pack of kleenex
- small hand sanitizer
- a few bandaids
- a little "emergency" snack

It was very warm inside the gym today so we had outside gym. Some of us looked for seed capsules, other people played at the playground, and other people used equipment.

Tomorrow is Fresh Air Friday! We will be going to Barrett Park, Whispering Woods, and doing weeding with our friends from the Calgary Zoo. If you want to come and join us please feel free!

Oct. 14

Today we started with guided reading and centres.  Lots of people are doing really interesting things like creating survey and writing stories at centres.

Today we worked in our new math journals and worked to figure out addition facts using addition bracelets. We used pipe cleaners and pony beads to make bracelets that helped us to figure out addition facts kind of like an abacus.

7+5=12

We learned a new song in music. It was called the Carnival of the Animals.

Our helper tomorrow is: Hussain

Please remember to return photo forms and fun lunch forms if you haven't already done so. 

Oct. 13

Today we spent a lot of time on our journals.  We worked really hard to get to the centre of our targets and shared our work with a buddy.

We also organized our graphing work in math to make sure we are ready to start our next set of math work.  We had inside gym. We did some running warm ups like high skips, kicks, and high knees. Then we did some friendly relay races.

Tomorrow our helper is: Jason

Fun lunch forms are coming home today. Please return them by Thursday. 

Oct. 9

Today was Fresh Air Friday. We went on a seed hunt. We tried to find seeds on the plants in the natureground. We noticed that some seeds were very tiny and inside the flowers. We also found seeds inside rosehips. These were seeds that were inside the fruit of the plant.  We noticed that some plants, like wild blue flax, have seed capsules that hold the seeds.

Today we also dyed our t-shirts using vegetable dye that we made using the beets from our natureground and from purple cabbage. We noticed that the pigment came out of the vegetables when we boiled them. We tied up our t-shirts and now we have left them in the dye baths. We are excited to see what the colours look like next week!

We are also bringing home a few surprises today. There are special projects to share in our backpacks and also 2 potatoes and a carrot from our Sun Circle garden!

Have a Happy Thanksgiving!

OOPS! I forgot to hand out the Fun Lunch Forms! I will be sending them home on Tuesday.

Oct. 8

Today we made soup. It was potato and corn soup. The potatoes came from our Sun Circle garden. It was really really yummy! While the soup was cooking we kept working on our special surprise!

We also got ready for our Fresh Air Friday project today. We used beets, cabbage, raspberries, and blueberries to make dye baths. Tomorrow we will get to test out the dye on our white t-shirts.

Today we got to have a free gym time because we worked so hard on our soccer skills all week. We also had library.

Our special helper for Tuesday is: Aanya

If you still have not brought a white cotton t-shirt please try to bring one tomorrow. 

Oct. 7

Yesterday was the start of our baking week! We are baking using the vegetables we harvested from the Sun Circle. Yesterday we made pumpkin muffins and today we made carrot cookies! We learned how to read some measuring terms like tsp (teaspoon) and we also learned a bit about fractions like 1/2 and 1/4.

We are busy working on a special surprise that will be coming home for the Thanksgiving weekend. We are very excited to share some of our learning with our families through this special surprise!

This week we also began guided reading. Guided reading happens at the very beginning of our day so please make sure to be on time for school.

Oct. 5

Today began with our Monday routine of centers and journals. We kept focusing on hitting the center of our journal target. In gym we kept practicing our soccer skills. Today we worked on passing and running at the same time. In science we continued our Natureground study. Today we focused on painting the coneflower. We really worked on adding the details to the cone part of the flower. That's where the seeds are! In math, we spent some time finishing up our choices graphs and Terry Fox graphs, people who were finished got to play mathletics.

Tomorrow our helper is: Atiksh

Reminders:
If you have not brought in your white cotton t-shirt for our Fresh Air Friday project, please have that here by Thursday. If you need help finding a t-shirt please email Ms. Boyer.

We will continue collecting Terry Fox donations for the rest of this week. We are less than $300 from our goal!