Tuesday, November 30th

Today we made maps of Canada. We are going to start learning about a place called Acadia, so before we could learn where it is, we needed to think about Canada as a whole.

We watched the video of "The Longest Named Place in Canada!" It is a lake called Pekwachnamaykoskwaskwaypinwanik Lake! It's TEN SYLLABLES LONG and it is in the Cree language. If you want to watch the video, you can click here!

We also reached our goal for Free Seating! On Friday we get to sit wherever we want and we get to do a Snowflake challenge!

Another thing we did today was change our Hands On math centres! We now have a graphing centre and an addition centre!

Monday, November 29th

Today we had a substitute teacher! 

We had to come up with a name for the new snowplows, it was a lot of fun. We had some great names: Snow Cleaner, Snow Track, Snowflake, Winter Storm and Snow Burner.  The winning name was “Winter Storm”.

The results are in!  Students were asked for feedback on Fun Lunch and as a result, new restaurants were added.  These are available in Healthy Hunger as well:

January 5 (order deadline December 31) - Boston Pizza

January 11 (order deadline January 6) - Fatburger

January 19 (order deadline January 14) - Subway

January 25 (order deadline January 20) - Edo Japan

February 2 (order deadline January 28) - Coco Brooks

February 8 (order deadline February 3) - Booster Juice

February 16 (order deadline February 11) - Mucho Burrito

February 22 (order deadline February 17) - Fatburger

March 2 (order deadline February 25) - Subway

March 8 (order deadline March 3) - Papa Johns

March 16 (order deadline March 11) - Fatburger

Tuesday, November 23rd

Today we finished out magnetic projects! It was a looooooong cleanup 😜😆

We also started learning about an addition strategy called near doubles. It is when we use the information we already know about doubles (like 1+1, 2+2, 3+3, etc.) to figure out addition questions that are near doubles. For example, since we already know 5+5=10, we can figure out that 5+6=11! We did an activity called Near Doubles Scoot! Let me practice some near doubles with you!

There is no class on Friday, November 26th as it is Parent-Teacher Conferences :) 

Monday, November 22nd

 A reminder that Dalhousie Parent Teacher Conferences are being held on November 25 and 26:

• There are no classes for Kindergarten students on either day
• There are no classes for all students on Friday, November 26.  Thursday, November 25 is a regular, full day (9:05am-3:50pm) for Grades 1-5 students.​​​​​​​

Any changes to bookings after November 24 at 4pm need to be made through the office by calling 403.777.6030

Today we worked on our educational magnetic games for the grade 1 students! I can tell you about my game!😁

Friday, November 19th

Due to some supply chain issues, the Cookie Dough fundraiser pickup has been changed to December 1 between 3-5.  This is still in time for some great holiday baking.  Thank you for your support! 🍪

This week we have been doing "Graph Talk" as part of our morning meeting. We have been learning how to make and read graphs. I can help you read this graph!

Today we did a cup stacking challenge. It was very hard to do but we showed growth mindset and perseverance and managed to make some cool shapes with the cups! These were the shapes we built. In the end, group 4 made the most number of shapes in the time we had! 🥇🥤

Thursday, November 18th

Today we made our first graph! We graphed the donations we brought in for the Veteran's Food Drive. 

Tomorrow we will be doing a cup stacking challenge!

Wednesday, November 17th

Tomorrow we have library! Please bring back your library books so you can take out new ones!📚

Today in math, we counted all of the donations that we brought for the Veteran's Food Drive. We are collecting the data so that we can graph it. When we're making a graph, the first step is to decide how to collect the data. We sorted the donations into four categories: cans (latas), boxes (cajas), bags (bolsas), and bottles (botellas). Then we did tally marks to count how many items were in each category. Tomorrow we will turn this data into a graph 

Today we also started building our magnetic projects. We read a book called "The Most MAGNIFICENT Thing!" by Ashley Spires. We talked about how important it is to persevere and not give up, even when we are angry or frustrated, just like the girl in the book!