Tuesday, September 29, 2015

Today we worked on our Daily 5 with some choice first round and then working on handwriting and working on writing.  We moved our Election Inquiry to before snack and story as Mrs Peterson's class was in drumming during our usual time.

In writing time, we discussed how being faced with a big empty page can be very intimidating!  The best cure for that, is to write about something they know about and care about.  We drew a big heart on the first page of our writing journal and filled it with topics of personal interest.  Please tell your parents some of the things that you wrote in your heart.

During our Election work, we re-watched the Democracy video from last week.  We then talked about some of the tricky vocabulary used in the video and made connections to what we have been hearing and seeing on television and taking about in our homes.  Our activity today was to read a variety of scenarios and to decide as a small group whether it would be best for one person to decide what to do or should there be a vote?  We will be sharing our results tomorrow.

Another crazy afternoon!  We didn't get half of what Mrs. Bowles had planned, but it was very productive.  We started our afternoon off with music. We were counting beats in some of our favourite songs.

In math, we were introduced to Math by Myself. We talked about the importance of why we would do math by our self. You came up with some great thoughts:
1.)  Build stamina in math
2.)   Become independent
3.)  It is fun
4.) Become better at math

We learned about a math activity that we can try called  "Today's Number" - we learned about standard form, expanded form, word form, greater than and less than, sum of digits, 10 less and more, 100 less and more, and 1000 less and more,  rounding  and place value charts. That was a lot.


We also discussed BYOD - Bring Your Own Device.  We will be sending more information on this home over the next week.

In science, we were true scientists. We examined real "oil sands."  We had to write about our experiences and used our senses to discuss what we noticed.  We didn't use two of our senses: hearing and tasting.  YUCK!!  We wrote like scientists about our experiences.

It was off to gym with Mr. McDougall.  We did a 1 km run and added to our class total. So far we have run 140 km!  Then we played a new game with pool noodles and balls.  It was a great day to be outside.



1.)   Terry Fox Pledges and forms
2.)  Demographic forms - if there are any changes




After almost finishing No Talking we discussed having a Gandhi Day on Thursday.  I know we haven't learned a lot about him yet but think of one thing that we could do as part of our celebration and write about it. You may want to learn a little more about him. How could you find out some information about him?