Counting down...

I'm sorry I forgot to take a picture of all the bridges that came to school today!  It was great to see the work that went into the project and how proud your student was to share their bridge!!  Thank you for supporting your student at home!

Please bring an extra backpack or strong bag to school tomorrow as we will clean out desks.  Everything will come home - be on the look out for some great pieces of work.

Nose Hill is within the CBE walk zone and therefore does not require field trip forms to be signed by parents.  Weather permitting Wednesday Nose Hill is our morning plan.  If you can join us feel free.

Getting There

We used magazines this morning to cut out pictures of structures.  Everyone wrote about their structure - what it might be used for, the materials used to make it, types of pillars, and how it was fastened together.  It was a great exercise in thinking like a scientist!

Ms. Cokar worked with us this morning to write a little comic strip.  Watch for those in backpacks.

We are planning on walking up Nose Hill on Wednesday morning - if you can join us for a walk in the park please let me know.

Bridge projects are due Monday along with the writing booklets.

Nose Hill

We would like to end our year off with a walk up Nose Hill.  It fits into many parts of our curriculum and it is in our neighborhood.  To do so we will need your help.  Volunteers will be required for Wednesday June 27 in the morning.  We would like to walk up to Nose Hill, snack, note some of the features of Nose Hill, play Coyotes and Hares and return to the school for lunch.  If you can help out please drop me an email or call.  Thanks for helping us make that happen for our students.

Our work continued today and we found out that a cylindrical pillar will hod more mass because the weight is distributed evenly.  This is something to keep in mind as you are building bridges at home.

Animals belong to a classification system and today we dumped everything we know about mammals, fish, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and insects onto our papers.  We talked about things like eggs, teeth, wings, fur etc. as we continue our work with life cycles.

Bridge project due Monday June 25

Inferring

We continue to work and work hard in our classroom.  Our work is never done.

Inferring.  Rather a difficult skill for some of us to master.  It involves using the clues left behind by the author and what we already know to make conclusions.  Author's don't always give us all the information, so rather like being detectives we must read the clues and figure things out for ourselves.    I like to use the Pixar short films for practice.  We looked at 'Geri's Game' today and discussed all the things we saw, what we knew and then the inferences we could make.  Tons of fun.

We were shape shifters in math this morning.  Starting with a triangle and working our way up to shapes with 10 sides.  We then compared and contrasted the quadrilateral family.  I have to say, a good job was done by all.

We looked at different types of bridges in Calgary - noting the arches, beams, foundations and spans.
       Bridge projects are due Monday June 25.

Our Day Plan

Kamp Kiwanis Daytrip

June 14, 2018

8:00 – attendance in the classroom/students will prepare their belongings to leave the building

8:15 – bus will leave the school

9:00 – bus arrives at Kamp Kiwanis

9:00 – 9:30 – orientation for the students and volunteers to Kamp with community meeting/snack/washroom break

9:30 – 11:30 – the large group of students will be broken into smaller groups for activity time.  Students will go with the counselors and volunteers to complete their activities:

Pond Study

Forest Realty

Sense Us Change

Forest of Sound

11:30 – 12:00 – campfire lunch break – students will eat at K ring area.  In the event of weather they will be able to eat in the day lodge.

12:00 – 1:30 - Coyotes and Hares – a large group learning activity in the forest

1:30 - 1:45 – washroom and clean up time

1:40 – leave the camp

2:30 – arrive back at Beddington Heights

Packing List

Please be on time tomorrow - we expect the Kamp Kiwanis bus at 8:00 and the sooner we can get out of here the longer time we will have to play.
I would recommend a bigger than usual lunch - one gets hungry playing in the forest.
A water bottle.
A morning snack.
Extra socks and perhaps pants.
Dressed in layers.  So that when the sun comes out we can strip down.
Rain gear.  So then it won't rain.
A can-do attitude that this is a great new adventure and we will make the most of it no matter the weather.

In a backpack near you is the instructions for a bridge project to be built at home for Monday June 25.  Keep the bright yellow papers handy.  Not only are they the instructions but they need to come back to school for self evaluation and marking.  Please make sure the yellow papers come back with the planning and materials part filled out.

Keep on the sunny side!

Please excuse my lack of communication - I went down.  And I went down hard.  All the germs and all the little bugs that have been in this room all year long took their toll on me and the best place to be when sick is at home.  It's quiet at home.

Kamp Kiwanis Thursday.  Rain or shine.  Keep your fingers crossed that the rains hold off until we leave the area in the afternoon but send your child prepared with rain gear and a change of clothing as we will be outside.  Even in the rain.  Keep on the sunny side.

ALL library books needed to be returned this week.  We no longer have the ability to sign reading materials out from the library.  Check under beds clean out closets Mrs. Paolini will be hunting you down.

We reviewed the names, edges, faces and vertices of 3D-shapes.  Which ones can roll?  What real world thing has the same shape?

We have finished The Tale of Despereaux but our work continues with the story elements and our favorite characters.  Ask your child if they enjoyed the story.