Thoughts of the day- November 27

What did we do today?

• We did a job that civil engineers do, which is to plan and look at where to build a community.  We went to Barrett Park and did a survey where we assessed the area to see if it would be a good place to build our community.  We used a pros and cons list and looked at if the area had sufficient food, shelter, water, space, and washrooms.  Group 3 found a large branch that could be used as a sled.  We also found items that would not be a pro such as smashed pudding cups and pellets.  Right now it is a possible site, but we will check Nose Hill next Fresh Air Friday.

What questions do we have after today?

• What will the pros and cons for Nose Hill Park be?
• What place will we eventually choose to build our community?
• Will the sled branch still be there when we visit Barrett Park next time?
• What will we be building?

Thoughts of the day-November 26

What did we do today?

• Today was Shave Your Lid for a Kid and two portable students accepted that challenge and helped raise over $5600 towards cancer research.
• In art, we continued to create our aluminum sculptures and keep them standing!
• It was also crazy hat and hair day and fun lunch!
• We played a game in music where every verse of a song would change the directions of the wall, making it easier or harder for the farmer to catch the pig.
• In math, we did a center called candy counting where you chose two cards to skip count numbers.  Unfortunately it did not have real candy.

What questions do we have after today?

• How long does it take to grow back your hair when you lose it?  Does it grow back the same way?
• What will we do next in music?
• Will the amount of raised money stay the same or increase?
• Will we do candy counting again?
• Will we do another big charity fundraiser this year?

Thoughts of the day- November 25

What did we do today?

• It was book CAFE! We learned how to evaluate our peers better.  Recommended reads include: Land of Stories, I Survived series, Magnus Chase, Harry Potter series, Glass Sentence, Precious Moments, Land or Sea, Wings of Fire series and All Fall Down.
• In math we played Place Value Yahtzee.  You had 3-4 dice and you rolled numbers to put in certain categories.
• We started to type out our alien excuses.
• In social we started to finish up our centers.  We are aiming to have them done by the end of next week.
• Rafiki bracelets- The We to Me club are selling these bracelets to help provide education and clean water to the people of Kenya and Ecuador.

What questions do we have after today?

• What will everyone look like tomorrow for crazy hair day?
• What are we doing next Fresh Air Friday?
• What are all the books recommended about?
• Will some of our classmates read the books recommended next CAFE?
• What are we covering next in math?

Thoughts of the day- November 24

What did we do today?

• In science, we explored what items were opaque, transparent and translucent with flashlights.
• We learned how to come up with math expressions with representing a number.  Some of us tried a number in the ten thousands.
• In health, we finished choosing a Superflex strategy to defeat our Unthinkables.
• Today in LA we started to type our alien excuses.
• We continued to work on our social centers, the music one is very popular!
• A sub taught us a tag game and we played take away with basketballs in gym.
• We learned the notes for the song Shake the Papaya.

What questions do we have after today?

• Will we learn a new song using the instruments?
• How much money will be raised for the Shave your Lid for a Kid campaign?
• What will we do in Health next?
• What objects will we have found that are opaque, transparent, or translucent?

Thoughts of the day- November 23

What did we do today?

• It was our first day of basketball in gym.
• In science, we did an experiment where we had to line up three index cards and shine a flashlight through the holes on the cards.  We had to move the second card 2cm to the left.  In conclusion, we found out that light travels in a straight line.
• Our big word this week for spelling is communication.
• We worked more on our alien excuses and added connective words to them.  Some of us are now typing.
• In math, we added expanded form as a way to represent numbers.  We also played Go Big with a partner, where you had to create the biggest number.

What questions do we have after today?

• What will our big word be next week?
• When will we start Ms. Pearson's centers in social?
• What will be our next country/ region to study?
• What are the alien excuses that other people wrote sound like?  Will they be intriguing?
• What read aloud book is next?
• What will our next science experiment be?
• When will we start games in basketball?

Agenda- November 23-27

Read 30 min
Alien excuses due Tuesday
CAFE Wed afternoon-have book and sheet with you
Crazy hat/hair day Thurs
Fun lunch Thurs
Shave a lid for a kid Thurs
POW due Fri
Spelling test Fri
Health homework- finish Superflex strategies
Rafiki bracelets-$10 Monday last day to buy them
Social centers
Fresh Air Friday tomorrow- be ready to be outside at Barrett Park

Thoughts of the day-November 19

What have we done over the last three days?

• We finished our Bollywood routine and practiced new moves with room 4.
• Yesterday we started a new art project, which was to create a human sculpture with aluminum foil, pipe cleaners, paper towel and plasticine.  We will be using these in science.
• In music we learned the melody and read the notes to a canoe song, which we played on the instruments.
• We cleaned our desks-I hope you will be amazed!
• On Tuesday, we started our new social centers, which include looking at music, transportation and how people in Peru live.  The Alberta Grasslands looked at the natural resources.
• In LA, we started these new stories about an alien who was late for school.  They are based on the book Baloney, which we read in class.

What questions do we have after today?

• How will our conferences go?
• What will we do with our people in science?
• What excuses will our aliens come up with?  What will they look like?
• What song will we cover next in music?

Thoughts of the day- November 16

What did we do today?

• Today some of us finished our Ivan art.
• In social, we were introduced to 6 new centers, the Grasslands got three as they will be starting a new region soon.
• We had our second Bollywood class.
• We had a student council meeting- we will be have an art, sports, french and dodgeball club.  There will also be math competitions during blue days. There will be colour days, bring your favourite sport to school day, and privilege day.
• In word work, we got our new spelling words and the big word was elephants.

What questions do we have after today?

• What will next week's big word be?
• What clubs will be offered this year?
• What will the other classes dances look like?
• How long will Ms. Jones's centers be this time?

Agenda- November 16-19

Read 30 min
CAFE next Wed
Treat day Tues.-bring 25¢
Spelling test Thurs
POW due Thurs
Student parent conferences Thurs/Fri- book asap
No school Fri
CAFE next Wed

Thoughts of the day- November 13

What did we do today?

• We went outside with Room 4 and we played this tag game where there are different animals and they had to get their food from other animals (carnivore would "eat" a herbivore).  There were omnivores, carnivores, decomposers and herbivores.  The carnivores could eat the herbivores, the omnivores could go after both, and the decomposers chased everyone.  he herbivores had the hardest job.
• We studied space and area.  We had to fit sheets of paper which were our habitats in a given space.  If they overlapped, you would "die" because you were sharing and competing for food, water, nutrients, shelter.  The space was 4m by 5m and we had to fit 47 kids.  We were able to figure it out on the third try, we went row by row like how a farmer plants their crops. Afterwards we drew or cut out tiny pieces of paper onto a given space to show what we learned.

Thoughts of the day- November 12

What did we do today?

• We started Bollywood dancing in gym.  There is a bit of jazz, a bit of hip hop and tradition Indian dance.  You usually look at your hands when you make a sweeping movement- there is acting involved too.  We also got to listen to the different music they play.
• In social, we did a catch up and next Monday we are starting different centers for the same region.
• We did more work on our Ivan art and we cut out our shapes for the characters body.  Some people started working on their heads, which we will change to a Picasso inspired face.
• In daily 5, we worked on a word work activity.  Ms. Jones introduced a new activity called Place Value Words.
• During music we earned free choice, where we played a lot of games.

What questions do we have after today?

• Will we have the same groups in social?  What will our next centers be?
• What is the next part of our dance for Bollywood dancing?
• What will our next novel be?
• How will our Primate Picasso pictures turn out?

Thoughts of the day-November 10

What did we do today?

• Today in science, we learned about the two types of light: natural and artificial.
• The school participated in the Remembrance Day assembly.
• We did word work today and in health we finished our Wordle art.
• Our big words were coordinates and decorations.  You can spell both words with the same letters!
• In music we played a canoe song with glockenspiels, metalephones and xylophones.

What questions do we have after today?

• What will we do in music on Thursday?
• What will be our next project in health?

Thoughts of the day- November 9

What did we do today?

• We had a catch up day to work on our social centers.
• In science, we learned about how the eye works.  We had to draw a partner's eye with the lights on and off and watched what happened to the pupil.  We missed word work because it was an interesting topic and we lost track of time.
• In gym we played Fish Under the Sea.  
• We planned our shapes for our Ivan Picasso piece.
• A group in guided reading read a book on Greece and myths.

What questions do we have after today?

• What will be our next big word?
• How long can an eye stay open without blinking?
• What is our next novel?
• Will there be more snow next Fresh Air Friday?
• What are we going to do next science class?
• How will the Picasso pieces turn out?

Agenda-November 9-13

Read 30 min
Bring donation for poppy
Assembly Tues @ 10:45 am
No school Wed
Book orders due Thurs
Spelling test Friday
Social center homework due Thurs
Fun lunch forms due Nov 19
Choir forms for Hitmen game due
Sign up for conferences on Saturday for next week

Thoughts of the Day- yesterday November 5

What did we do yesterday?

• We did a math test.
• We read more Ivan and he was moved from the Big Top Mall to a zoo.  He met his new troop of gorillas and watched them on television and through the glass.
• We got our science tests back, and had library.
• In art, we painted a background based from the book The One and Only Ivan.  We also learned about an artist named Picasso.

What questions do we have after yesterday?

• How will Ivan end?
• Will Ivan ever see Ruby again? How about Julia, George or Bob and Not Tag?
• What will Ivan's new troop think of him?  Will he be a good silverback?
• How will our Primate Picasso pictures turn out?

Thoughts of the Day- Fresh Air Friday November 6

What did we do today?

• We went outside to the Whispering Woods and we looked at the woods as 4 different people/animals: as ourselves, as a dog, as a senior and as an early settler.
• As ourselves: watched a woodpecker and chased a bunny; balanced on a fallen branch; avoided thorns; looked for trees to climb; heard the crunching of grass, birds tweeting, kids laughing and footsteps; could smell the fresh snow and the aroma of pancakes.
• As a dog: saw sticks and bunny scat; felt rocks; the snow felt cold on my paws; felt thorny branches and saw long grass; saw dogs playing in the snow; found scissors, a broom and Hershey's wrappers; looked for bunny tracks; found stinky foam; fell in a hole; smelled dirt and an old feather; felt hot in the sun; felt the wet leaves; saw a mouse and a squirrel and felt a cold wind.
• As a senior: was very hilly, slippery and gravelly; heard loud pesky children; blurry trees and grass; confusing pathways; it felt cold, windy and wet; saw sticks I could trip on; heard branches swaying; saw signs and bumpy bark; the walk was tiring after a while; and I saw a water bottle on the ground.
• As an early settler: no water to be found; saw berries for paint, food and medicine; plants for medicine; bunny tracks; found sap for candles; saw trees and cut branches for a shelter; and animals for food and clothing.

Thoughts of the day- November 4

What did we do today?

• In science we started a new unit called Light and Shadow.  We wrote down things we already know.
• In Ivan, Julia and George spelled out Ivan's "Home" sign.  Mack took responsibility for the sign.  A television station came to do an interview and filmed the claw stick so now protesters are out with signs to free Ruby.
• We played a new game called Bump to practice our spelling words.
• In social, we worked on our centers.
• In math we used SMARTIES to figure out place value and got to eat them afterwards! Two students got the same number!  We also built numbers using base ten blocks and your partner got to guess.
• Ms. Jones ACTUALLY taught gym again.

Questions after today?

• How fast does light travel from the Sun?
• What are we doing next in gym?
• Will Ivan get moved into a zoo with Ruby?
• How did we do on our science tests?

Thoughts of the day- November 3

What did we do today?

• We started new centers in social.  We went to different classrooms and started our first centers there.
• In Ivan, he got angry for the first time because Julia and George did not understand his paintings and they were going to give them to Mack to sell.
• In music we learned a French Canadian song.
• In daily 5, we all did a different activities and some of us helped the kindergartens on the computers.
• In health, we worked on our positive wordles.
• We did hula hoop routines that included all the stuff we have learned in this unit.
• We started place value in math.

What questions do we have after today?

• What are we doing this Fresh Air Friday?  Will it snow?
• I wonder what Julia and George will do with Ivan's paintings?
• Will we learn more French songs?

Thoughts of the day- November 2

What did we do today?

• We worked on our social centers and tried to finish three of them.
• We read a dark part in Ivan today, but now he has a plan to save Ruby.
• We have new spelling words.
• When we read to self in Daily 5, we now have to choose activities from a menu to complete.
• We completed two easy problem of the days.

Agenda- Nov 2-6

Read 30 min
Math quiz Thurs- review page 
No POW
Choir Wed
Library Thurs
Spelling test Fri
Bring in items for the Food Bank
School photos due Nov 9
EverActive consent due Friday
Science quiz to go home