Crazy Hair Day!

Our students and teachers promoted some new hair styles this week!!! 

In Language Arts, the students organized their sunflower information and typed them into paragraphs. We have been working all year on topic sentences, details and confusions. The paragraphs were posted with their sunflower art! 

As a class we read a levelled reader called "Weird Bird Beaks". Then the students wrote a multiple choice quiz to show their understanding of this non-fiction book. 

We also learned about a Haiku. The students wrote these 3 line poems about their spring trees that they created in art. Each poem followed the format of 5 syllables, 7 syllables and 5 syllables. Once their poem was constructed they typed them on their chrome books and individualized them with font, size and colour changes. 

We continued working in our Spring Joke Handwriting booklets.

In Math, we started talking about the perimeter of regular and irregular shapes. They measured the distance around these shapes in metres. Students also constructed different shapes for a given perimeter to demonstrate that there can be many shapes for a given perimeter. We also discussed mass and the students explored the unit kilograms (kg). We learned that our math textbook was about 1kg. 

 

In Social, we continued our research on Ukraine using the Blackgold Engaging Students website. 

To go with our sunflower research and our Life Cycles unit in Science, we planted sunflower plants. The students really enjoyed this activity! 

For Art, the students drew unique trees, painted them and added their choice of sequins for buds. Their haiku was then attached to their art. They turned out fantastic!!

Six of our students participated in the Klondike Relays at the U of A Butterdome last week! They were presented with certificates for participating. Way to go Raptors! 

Congratulations to our students who flew to another country. Please continue to read at home with your child. At this point in the year, they should be at or beyond 3000 home reading minutes. 

Congratulations to our new Student of the Week!