February 28, 2020

This week:

Room 5 has begun our research project involving waste in our world.  Each student has chosen a product that they use regularly in their lives.  We are focusing on documenting the materials used, environmental advantages and disadvantages, consumer advantages and disadvantages as well as alternatives to be able to see the impact of each product on the environment.  We will share our learnings with each other and the school community.

We continued to build on our knowledge of photography with Ms. Sarah.  Pictures below show the ways we practiced bird's eye view, ant's eye view, symmetry and the rule of thirds.
We've enjoyed playing floor hockey this week.  Many of us are very passionate about team sports!

February 25, 2020

This morning we attended 2 different presentations in the iLab.  The first was with Green Calgary.  We started with planning and building our own mini landfill using the materials we had.  Our goal was to create a landfill that would not allow the leachate to contaminate the ground water in our model.  Many of us designed successful models.  We then learned about the components used in Calgary landfills and how similar our models were to actual designs.   

Our second presentation was with our Artist in Residence, Ms. Sarah.  She taught us about what a camera must have:  a shutter and an aperture.  We also learned that you can't take a picture without light.  We did an experiment where we exposed our eyes to different levels of light and we were able to see how our pupils changed with the amount of light in the room.  At the end we got to test our knowledge with a demonstration using props.

Reminder:  Tomorrow is pink shirt day.  

February 24, 2020

Today in math we did each got the opportunity to practice addition, subtraction or estimation to prepare for our check-in tomorrow.  Ask me what I chose to work on.

We continued belts in music.  We demonstrated our cooperation, team-work and active participation during floor hockey.  In writing, we discussed the power of kindness and have begun writing special notes to important people in our school.  In social we finished sharing our knowledge of the forestry industry in a concept map.  Our science learning involved examining the ways different products are packaged and the advantages and disadvantages of the packaging materials. 

Reminders:  Green Calgary will be visiting us tomorrow.  Students have the option to come into the school a few minutes early in the morning.  Ask your child about this.

February 21, 2020

Room 5 finished our read aloud of The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane today and this is what some had to say about it:

• Awesome! (KB)
• Exciting! (MM)
• It was amazing how the story ended for Edward (LM)
• It was interesting (SM)
• It was adventurous (DE)
• So much detail and inspiration (GPC)
• Surprising (KK)
• Through happy and sad times, the book ended in an awesome way (SD)
• It messes with your emotions - it's an emotional story (MF)

We also printed the written components to go with our art, which helps to identify the different perspectives we used in our paintings.

Reminder:  Book orders are due on Monday (online or at school).

February 19, 2020

We hope everyone enjoyed the extra long weekend!  Here are some learning highlights from room 5:

• Today we made a bar graph of natural and man-made systems that we saw on our community walk (GPC)
• We learned about the removal strategy during our number talk (ZS)
• This week we have been playing floor hockey in gym (MF)
• Today we watched 2 videos about the forestry industry in Alberta (SD)
• Yesterday we did a check-in for social studies.  We had to talk about natural resources and alternate sources of energy (KK)
• We also had to show what we know about renewable and non-renewable resources (MM)
• In music we got the opportunity to get belts.  If you didn't get a belt you could go in at lunch (AC)
• In music some people have to learn how to do a song to earn more belts (MH)
• We practiced the stacking method in math.  Some of us would like to demonstrate our skills for our parents so please ask your child to solve this:    
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Note:  Book orders went home today.  These are due by Monday.

February 12, 2020

💝 Happy Valentine's Day from room 5! 💘

This week students have been writing about people they love, times they've felt most loved and even whether or not they believe animals feel love.  We also wrote some poetry using rhyme, shapes and acrostics.

This afternoon we had a gallery walk presentation where we were able to visit room 4 and view the Beakerhead art/inventions and share what our class created as well.  Some of our greatest take-aways were:

• It was cool to see lots of different ideas (KK)
• People had different ideas that I never thought of (SM)
• The kids in room 4 worked alone and our class did it in groups (SD)
• There were different ideas in both classrooms (AV)
• Everyone figured out a way to include elastic bands in their inventions (MH)

We ended the day with our valentine card exchange.  Students will bring home cards and treats today.

Reminders:  Teachers' Convention Thursday & Friday - No school 

Family day Monday - No school

February 10, 2020

Reminders for field study tomorrow:

• Please bring and wear snow pants (may be sitting on the ground)
• Pack a litter-less lunch
• Dress for the weather (hats, gloves, boots etc.)

Valentine exchange will take place on Wednesday afternoon 💘

February 7, 2020

Buddies, Beakerhead and beautiful works of art!  That's how students in room 5 spent the morning.  Have a look at some of the amazing creations our class designed to show movement using elastic bands.  We wrote reflections about our artwork that discussed the ways we addressed background, middle ground, foreground, horizon line, depth and realism within our art inspired by gorgeous Alberta landscapes.

Reminder:  Field study forms for Fish Creek Park are due Monday.

Have a great weekend!

 

 

February 6, 2020

Learning and take-aways from this week:

• In music we started to earn belts on the recorder
• We went on a community walk yesterday and were searching for examples of natural and man-made systems
• Today we visited the science fair at R.T. Alderman
• Yesterday we had a 50 word spelling test that we couldn't study for.  We did our best with the challenging words.  
• Tomorrow is Miss Kerr's last day and we have made her a card
• We have filled up another page of our visual representation of Edward Tulane