Happy Monday! PICTURE ORDERS DUE THURSDAY 25th

PICTURE ODERS DUE THURSDAY OCT. 25th

Today we welcomed Mrs.Bacani to our class!  It will be wonderful to have her teach along side me.

Our current writing is focussing on "procedural writing" and recalling facts and re-writing them in our own words.  This week we will write about how to create a spooky house, how to make a grilled cheese sandwich and things that we know about spiders.

This morning we worked on a visual journal page about the Wechia Hippo Sanctuary in Western Ghana. We learned about the Calgary Zoo partnering up with the people from 17 villages to build a safer home for both the hippos and humans.

In Math we are continuing to show a number in a variety of ways.  Some of the students are even attempting to represent a number using money.  We have also begun working on "How Many Ways".  This is taking a number and showing multiple number sentences to express it.

6+6=12
10+2=12
24-12=12
3x4=12
7+5=12

In Science we looked at water droplets. We noticed that we can stack water droplets on a penny and that water is attracted to other water.

Roles and responsibilities at school will be our focus in Social Studies.  We will look at responsibilities in the classroom, hallways, playground, gym and lunchroom.

Making good choices, being happy, and how to be a good friend is what we are learning about in Health.   It is so interesting to hear all of the things that make the kids happy.

QUESTION of the day!!!!

What are some things the Wechai Hippo Sanctuary did to help both the humans and animals?

Famous 5, CPR and Liquids

This week our all Earl Grey students will be learning about the "Famous Five".  A group of 5 Canadian woman who secretly met, planned and petitioned for the woman's rights. As a result of their hard work woman were recognized as "persons" and on Oct. 18, 1929 woman gained the right to vote.  In Social Studies we will continue to look at Calgary's timeline and the important contributors to Calgary's development.

On Thursday Oct. 18th all E.G students will have the opportunity to be entertained and educated by a performance about the building of the CPR.  The performance will take place in the gym at approximately 8:45am.

We are continuing to learn about liquids in Science.  This week we are racing liquids, we will rank them based on their level of viscosity.  They slower or more resistant a liquid is the higher viscosity it has.

In Math we are beginning to explore number concepts and relationships.  This includes; counting by 2s, 5s, 10s, reading and writing number words, ordering numbers from least to greatest and vice versa, representing numbers using tallies, pictures and base 10 blocks and decomposing numbers. Decomposing numbers is when you take a number greater than 10 and break in into parts, ie 34 is actually 30+4 or 3 tens and 4 ones.

Spelling tests will continue to be every Friday unless otherwise specifies.  The weekly words will always be listed in the agenda.  Please email me if you have any questions.

Student Teacher

I would like to welcome Mrs. Gennerose Bacani to our class.  She is an Education student at  St.Mary's University Student. Mrs.Bacani will be joining our class from Oct. 22nd through Dec. 14th.  Please introduce yourself and say hello whenever you see her. 

Walking Field Trip

Just a heads up that we have tentatively set Wed. Oct 24th as a walking field trip date.  Our class will be walking to the Law's house (Ashlyn, Lucas and Trenton's house).  While at the Law's house we will be writing the "Steps to Making a Spooky House".  This is inline with our current writing unit on procedural writing.  Students will also be provided with a lunch of chicken fingers, hot dogs and vegetables.  This walking field trip is free of charge and is being provided by Deb and Darrel Law.  I will be asking 2-3 parents to accompany us for the walk.  More information to come.

Animal Ark Photo Gallery

Today I briefly introduce the Animal Ark to the class.  Photographer Joel Sartore is trying to capture an image of every animal in the world (or at least in captivity).  His goal is to increase. animal awareness and conservation. 

check him out here....
Animal Ark