Wednesday, September 23, 2015

Good Evening Everyone,

This morning we met two lovely ladies who are coming to our class to work on their first Mt. Royal University student teaching experience.  They will be coming in every Wednesday morning to learn about teaching and to start working with students.

We looked at a cartoon picture today and had a wonderful discussion about what it means to be a HERO.  The students had so many interesting and thoughtful ideas to share.  We spent some time writing about this in our journals and will share tomorrow.

After snack and our outdoor movement break, we met again with Mrs. Peterson's class to review our work form yesterday and to give it another try now that we know a bit more about how to work together to accomplish the task.  We discovered a few interesting things through our discussions such as:
Sometimes we pick a leader and we don't always agree with their decisions.
We can use voting to help ensure everyone has a say.
It is challenging to get things done when some people don't follow the rules.
Maybe we should have the people prove how they would be good for the job of leader.

We watched a video about democracy and will go over it again tomorrow to build understanding of that concept!  You can watch it at home and discuss if you are interested!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgBBfM8SYPA&feature=youtu.be

This afternoon was a little on the crazy side after our Subway lunch.  We needed a little quiet time after all of that excitement so we watch a video about Terry Fox.  It was interesting to see him and hear him speak. We learned about the Order of Canada and how many people came out to see him.  The video was called "I Have a Dream" and we discussed how we are keeping his dream alive.

In math, we did a Terry Fox math problem.  This is what we were working on:

 Inspired by Terry Fox, Mrs. Bowles decided she would like to run a marathon. A marathon is 42 km long. On the first day, she ran 1 km, on the next day she ran 2 km.  The day after that, she ran 3 km.  If she continues that pattern, how many days will it take her to run a TOTAL of 42 km?

We learned that sometimes making a chart will help us keep our learning organized and easy to follow. We then learned a new game called "Hundreds Board Tic Tac Toe."  This will help us with the place value learning that we are moving on to.

We had a number of handouts today, so we spent some time going over everything.  Tonight there will be Scholastic Book orders, demographic forms and Terry Fox Treat Order Forms in your backpack.

Dance was a lot of fun today.  We learned a new dance which Miss Janelle taught us as a game.  We moved from one corner of the gym to the next and had a whole dance by the time we got back to the starting point.

Things to Remember:

1.  Parents - The demographic forms went home today - this form is coming home today and they must verify the information and only if we need to make corrections do they need to return it to the school.  Meet the Teacher night is an excellent time to return it.

2.)  Terry Fox Fun Snack order forms went home today - Due Date is MONDAY, September 28

3.)  Scholastic Order Forms  went home today. Please read the note about how you can sign up online to pay with a credit card.

4.)  Mrs. Bowles will be at a workshop tomorrow afternoon - please show your Cranston hospitality and that we are great ambassadors of good behaviour

5.)  Cranston School Open House tomorrow.  Please check the time of your session.

6.) No school on Friday as teachers are at a Professional Development Workshop.

Question of the Day:

Today we talked about Terry Fox a lot.  Do you think that he is hero?  If so what makes him a hero?