Connecting, Communicating, and having those daily Conversations
The list, below, is a list of words or phrases that can be helpful to refer to when having conversations about the school day as a family. The words and phrases connect to some of the things we have touched on and explored in class during the week.
April 29 - May 3
Parkland Region
equivalent fractions
computation review check in
analogies:
synonyms
happy is to cheerful as tiny is to small
antonyms
open is to close as hard is to soft
rhyme
chair is to hair as log is to dog
Homophones
toe is to two as tale is to tail
Parts of a Whole and Groupings:
student is to class as singer is to choir
heel is to foot as palm is to hand
Citrus Fruits: grapefruit, oranges, lemons, limes
Vitamin C
Boreal Forest
coniferous and deciduous trees
poplars
trembling aspen
Western wood lily
bunch berry
fire weed
wild strawberry
mushroom
photosynthesis: sunlight, chlorophyll, water, and carbon dioxide gas (to create their own energy)
hawk
beaver
insects
Kananaskis Area
Peter Lougheed Provincial Park
land and recreation (hike, ski, climb)
tourism - lodge
cylinder pillar
triangular pillar
rectangular pillar
most mass supported by?
lacrosse
carry
scoop up
pass
April 15 - April 26
Paint by the Crosswalk speaker and information
community
action
connections
writing:
Beginning Sentence / introduction
leading to middle with information
Ending sentence as closure
Transition from idea to idea
Varying sentence beginnings
Writing so that explanations are clear to a reader and questions would not be needed to understand what you were saying in your writing.
www.albertaparks.ca/parks/central/goose-mountain-er/information-facilities/
fractions
adding fractions with like (same denominators
showing how adding works (licorice)
Other regions: parkland, grassland, boreal forest, (Rocky Mountain, foothills, Canadian Shield)
Foothills Region of Alberta
foot of the mountain
top, peak, summit, apex
Chinooks
warm moist air from the ocean
West side - drops rain
warm air coming over and warming the area
Sometimes Cold Alberta Clippers -
rolling hills
rolling grasslands
river valleys
forested hills
dam - controls water flow
vegetation - plants
natural resources: fish, oil, gas, coal
Goose Mountain Ecological Reserve
connecting photography to writing poetry
reworking phrases
magazines
magazine article
pillars
beams
span
rectangular beam
box girder beam
accordion beam
pillars / supports
strength
load/mass
April 8 - April 12
identifying fractions
fractions of a whole
fractions of a set
licorice fractions
denominator
adding fractions with the same denominator
Reviewing of finding
the sum
the difference
the product
the quotient
and "checks" to go with them
rectangle
rectanglular prism
volume (capacity - contain - what something could hold - what is inside the 3-D structure)
Bow glacier
Bow river
Bow falls
Calgary's water
What runs but never walks? Water
photography:
exposure
light
eye
pupil
wide circle - letting in more light
small circle - letting in less light
outdoor photography practice
light and shadow
descriptive vocubaulary
nouns
adjectives
verbs
phrases
syllables
Haiku
new students
April 2 - April 5
Alberta
regions
resources:
renewable
non-renewable
fuel
benefit
connection to jobs/occupations
landforms
glaciers
Antarctica
Greenland
All continents
wonderful
vocabulary
new student
music
Operation Earth Day
Oh What a Wonderful World
We Have the Whole World in our Hands
- animals and plants are important to take care of
- animal sound contest as part of our Operation Earth Day!
- plays, skits, word scrambles, trivia, research, announcements, songs
asking questions that are not "yes" "no" questions
cinquain review
cinquain writing - water
math:
statistics
data
estimation
dividing
factors
prime numbers (only two factors - one and itself)
fractions
fraction of a whole
fraction of a set
March 18 - March 21
Which shape will support the most mass?
(arch, rectangular)
racquet sports
problem solving review
sum (answer when adding)
difference (answer when subtracting)
product (answer when multiplying)
quotient (answer when multiplying)
45 678 , 67 894 (Find the Sum)
45 123 , 27 985 (Find the Difference)
456 , 7 (Find the Product)
49 ÷ 7 (Find the Quotient)
factors
angles
acute
right
obtuse
estimate
triangles
acute triange (all three are tiny)
right triangle ("right" wins)
obtuse triangle (obtuse wins)
Labelling to identify an angle
measuring
landforms:
mountains
hills
valleys
glaciers
erosion
library - listening to the picture book Cry.
March 11 - March 15
shapes vs polygons
polygons:
straight lines
closed
regular polygons - all sides are the same length (congruent to each other)
irregular polygons - not all sides are the same length
congruent
triangle ( 3 sides)
quadrilaterals (4 sides):
square
rectangle
parallelogram
trapezoid
rhombus
pentagon (5 sides)
hexagon (6 sides)
heptagon (7 sides)
octagon (8 sides)
nonagon ( 9 sides )
decagon (10 sides )
Landforms
Mountains
March 4 - March 8
current events - events (things happening) in our world today
- for example - The City of Calgary talking about Water Conservation
- connecting this to Earth Day and working on Operation Earth Day leading toward an Earth Day assembly.
cinquain
cinquain poem - 5 lines
specific parts:
title - subject of the poem
adjectives about the subject (2)
verbs about the subject (3)
feeling about the subject (4 words)
synonym for the subject (1 word)
quatrain
4 line part of a larger piece
A verse in a poem
Connecting couplets and quatrains to music class and picture book read alouds
Verbs - action words (walk, walking, smile, smiling, think, thinking...
Verbs connected to an icicle
Paragraphs:
Beginning
Middle
End
Like a hamburger
First Sentence (top bun) - Topic Sentence
Middle - filled with the interesting facts connected to the topic
Last sentence (bottom bun) - Sentence to end/wrap up the paragraph topic - similar to the topic sentence (not exact, but has some of the same words in it).
Writing a paragraph about the topic of plants/flora of the Canadian Shield Region of Alberta
couplets - in poetry - looked at in music - two lines that rhyme
I saw a comical bunny,
It was very funny.
Boreal Forest Region of Alberta
- Largest natural reagion of Alberta
- noticing how the people and the land are connected - First Nations people using resources, such as the trees (wood) in the past - snow shoes, sleds; hunting the moose and fishing and using all parts and not wasting any.
Canadian Shield Region
Precambrium time period - 600 million to 4.6 billion years ago.
Many fossils are found in the Canadian Shield.
Cold climate
(climate vs weather)
Winter - about six to eight months - snow up to approximately 160 cm.
Long "daylight" hours in the summer
watch Northern Lights
Social Studies Research
Colour coding jot-note categories: fauna/animals, flora/plant life, Fort Chipewyan, Landforms, jobs/industries, history, First Nations, climate, location
Ordering jot-notes (using numbers) - having a reason for this order
Math
Dividing Group
- finding factors or traditional long division with multiplication check or problem solving (depending on which group you were working in)
- dividing - some groups working on initial stage of dividing down the side and other groups working on traditional algorithm dividing with muiltiplication checks.
- dividing efficiently (pulling out the most number of groups possible at once)
- dividing - placing the answer down the side and then on the top (leading toward dividing using the traditional algorithm)
Fraction Group
- fraction - 7 / 10 7 out of 10 7 shaded in pieces out of ten pieces.
- basic fraction terminology: numerator, demoninator, equal, parts...
- equivalent fractions - the how to create in number (not yet knowing how to show or explain)
[ 2 / 3 = 4 / 6] We times the denominator and the numerator by the same number
Cross Multiply to check
Finding the missing number ? / 4 = 2 / 8 ? x 8 = 4 x 2
Wild Winter Weather - writing prompt - notice the alliteration, notice two major key words to write about if stuck on how to begin.
thermometer - measuring device of heat (therm)
At 0 degrees Celsius water freezes (turns to ice)
Above 0 degrees Celsius we say + (plus() a number degrees Celsius
Below 0 degrees Celsius we say - (minus) a number degrees Celsius
If the temperature was - 30 degrees Celsius and rose to +10 degrees Celsius, the temperature would have risen 40 degrees Celsius.
Today our temperature outside felt like - (minus) 27 degrees Celsius
February 26 - March 1
Canadian Shield Region of Alberta
more jot noting such as but not limited to
North West Trading Company
Hudson's Bay Company
settlements
demographics
population
Wood Buffalo National Park
remote location
flora
fauna
Photography:
rule of thirds
(and learning to fold a paper into thirds)
horizontal
vertical
intersecting lines
horizon
distractions
subject
why
Venn diagrams (some of us looked at these today).
Music - great singing and knowing of the words!!!
factors
factor x factor = product
What factors go into making a Rice Krispie Square product?
What factors go into making a "6" product?
1 x 6 = 6
2 x 3 = 6
Photography - creating a slide show presentation of our first set of outdoor photos and labelling what viewpoint was used (look up (ant's eye) , look down (bird's eye), move around, back up, move in, Take it for a sping, go high, get low)
February 12 - February 23
Parts of Speech: Noun, adjective, verb, adverb
icicle - adjectives
Focus on photography outdoors
abstract art: shape, line,value, form, colour, texture
concrete/specific art image: constructed to be something recognized such as a face, house - viewer can identify it as what it is.
Probem Solving
Act out, draw out the parts of the "story" to help you understand what it is about
units (g,kg, cm, m, km...)
units must be the same when you add them to start with: 1 kg = 1000 g so 2 kg = 2000g
components = specific parts of
Sweet Spot 14
Using only 7, 4, 9, 8, 10, 2
Use two or more of the numbers in an equation (challenge is to try and use all six of them)
See how many different equations you can get to equal 14.
Can only use a number once
May use any of the operations (plus, minus, times, divide)
Trying to get answer to equal 14
Over and Under the Snow
heavy eyes = tired
morsel = small piece of (as in food that the vole left from the year before)
Nouns - snow, leaf, deer, tree(s), people
Adjectives (describe or 'ADD' decription to a noun) - white, cold, icy, smooth, wavy, airborne ...)
robotics:
coding
distance
direction
angle
program
brain
Motors:
- move the robot exact distances and at exact speeds
- small cameras inside the motor tell it how much to rotate
Ultrasonic Sensor
- The speaker plays a sound no humans can hear and the microphone listens to the sound.
- A computer inside measures the time the sound takes to echo and calculates the distance away from a wall.
(like echolocation used by a bat)
Chasis Blocks
- used to control both motors on the robot, which are connected to the wheels
- controls BOTH. motors at the same time (For example [move FORWARD 100 centimeters / TURN left 90 )
Challenge:
Get through the maze without crashing into a wall.
gears:
diameter
rotation
ratio (if one goes all the way around, how many times did the other one go around)
speed - smaller in diameter gear - more speed
bicycle
bevelled gears (at 90 degree angles - see if you have a hand mixer with one
gears - noticing the direction they move (2 gears, 3 gears, more...)
multiplication - 2-digit x 1-digit - traditional method
Storybook - working on illustrations to go with the important parts of the story.
Floor hockey continues
February 5 - February 9
Dance Performance!
Kindness - writing prompt
current events - things that are currently (right now) happening
in the news - conserving water
conserving - not wasting or overusing
ideas:
- shut off tap when brushing teeth
- keeping jug of water in fridge so not running water to make it cold
physical basic needs:
food
clothing
shelter
angles:
right = 90 degree
acute - less than 90 degrees
obtuse - more than 90 degrees
straight - 180 degrees
circle - 360 degrees
measuring angles
protractor
line up target with vertex
place line on horizon line
go out to the zero (0)
follow the line from 0 to the other line and look at the number there
Math activities - focussing on place value and multiplication
gears
teeth
sizes
circle
diameter ( d ) (distance aross a circle)
Circumference (C) - distance around a circle (basically perimeter of a circle)
movement
direction
Rectangle:
4 right angles
4 vertices
opposite sides are parallel
opposite sides are equal in length (CONGRUENT)
Congruent (equal in length or measurement as in length of the sides of a rectangle.
Square:
4 right angles
4 vertices
opposite sides are parallel
all sides are equal
all sides are congruent
factors
factor x factor = product
3 x 4 = 12
basic FACTS - helpful to remember what a factor is (what can be multiplied together to get a product.
1 x 20 = 20
2 x 10 = 20
4 x 5 = 20
Angle
Viewpoint
Perspective
Math Angle:
2 lines meet and an angle is formed
Right angle
90 degree angle
square angle
(signal for turning right when riding a bicycle)
A rectangle has four right angles.
lIbrary - Book about Canadian Animals
January 29 - February 2
Simile - figure of speech - comparison of similar things using "like" or "as"
The ball was red like a cherry.
The ball was red like a cherry.
Perimeter - distance around a shape.
Today we calculated the perimeter of a rectangle.
We then calculated the perimeter of a rectangle with a quarter of it gone.
Using ( ) to show our brain path in math.
Authors extraordinaire! - fine tuning dialogue, paragraphs and then some are "chunking"
Fort Chipewyan. (named after the Chipewyan people who lived in that area).
Fort chip
hamlet
By Wood Buffalo National Park
about (approximately) 200 km north of Fort McMurray.
one of the oldest European settlements in Alberta
trading post
North West Company 1788
Dance Moves:
start pose
grape vine: ( step, behind, step, together - clap) change directions ( step, behind, step, together - clap)
prep: dust shoulder, dust shoulder, wash palms in, wash palms in
funky jumping jack: count ( 1and, 2and, 3and, 4and, 5,6,7,8 ) (arms wide, hands together - other direction arms wide, hands together /
arms open, pose, kind of a dab, arms up wide shake head, point eight counts, other way point eight counts, stamp bend knee forward - clap, other foot stamp bend knee forward - clap, step back stamp foot knee bend - clap, other side step stamp foot knee - clap, step/stamp forward left, step/stamp forward right, step/stamp left back, step/stamp right back, criss cross, palms up cookie left, palms up cookie right...
more dance moves...
Alberta
Canadian Shield
ice road
more animals
lichens, ferns
jack pine, aspen trees, black spruce
bogs
Bearberry, Common Blueberry, Bog cranberry and Labrador Tea.
climate
wood harvesting
fishing
trapping
subject
predicate
sentence
fragment
problem solving:
Quest/Question:
Data:
D.M.U.:
Findings:
syllable
vowel sound
closed syllable (at, bat, dig, hog, lug...)
open syllable (me, my, he, ...)
vowel team syllables:
ea - tea, beat, clean...
oa - float, boat...
ee - seed, feed...
ai - pail, sail, plain...
January 22 - January 26
3-D
3 Dimensional (length, width, height)
cube - 6 faces
net of a cube - we could outline connected squares flat and fold up to make a cube
rectangular prism:
6 faces
8 vertices
12 edges
erosion
rocky cliffs
Jack Pine, Aspen Poplar
Peregrine Falcon, Sandhill Crane, Pelican
roots anchored in rocks and little soil
moose, gray wolf
Canadian toad
Lake Athabasca
Canadian Shield
jot notes - how
text features - bold text, coloured text, text, pictures
photographer residency
subject
viewpoint
up
down
around
back up
move in
take it for a spin
get high
get low
Multiplying
two-digit by one-digit
three-digit by one-digit
box method
tried two-digit by two-digit for fun using box method
Now working on doing the steps under the vertical question, starting with the tens and also starting with the ones (working our way to the traditional algorithm.)
Review of reading our work to "the wall" or another person (using a dramatic stage voice listening for and feeling punctuation stops (periods) and pauses (commas).
Review of paragraphing
Review of how to set up dialogue punctuation (quotation marks and commas)
Library - book Hidden Gems
Daily writing - response to building a "vehicle that moves / moved "
January 16 - January 19
paragraphing
paragraph punch (purple paragraph punch)
Same ideas withing a paragraph.
Each time there is dialogue (conversation; quotation marks) - indent for a paragraph punch
A paragraph for the story is sort of like a part of a film. The camera would be focused on that part of the story (that paragraph), when it would move to someone specific talking it would adjust and focus on that (new paragraph), then when the story is talking about something else the photographer would be focussing the camera on something else - new paragraph...
We looked at a chapter book and noticed how the author had indented for paragraphs and dialogue.
times tables for multiplication - practice
music - recorders - practise
Drafting - in writing and in building vehicles
First draft
Modifiy (outline - build - change - fix - edit - revise - test out - read again...)
Another draft
Modifiy (change - fix - edit - revise - test out - read again...)
Another draft ...
library time - "Thing-a-ma-gig"
Calgary Humane Society
"Don't Feed the Bears"
jot- notes coming tomorrow
building our vehicles that will "move"
paragraphing our stories
new paragraph indent each time a character speaks
new paragraph indent when topic in story changes
Building with a variety (different) materials
Choosing materials based on what would be best for what you are doing and what works best with the other materials that you are using.
For example even with tape - picking the right one for what you are using it for.)
Scotch tape
masking tape
duct tape (it was and can be used to wrap air ducts)
duct
skewer
straw
plastic bottle cap
wheel
box / base / body
safety!!!! (when making holes, using tools, ...)
measuring to have opposite sides of a 3-D (box) have a hole in exactly the same spot on each side.
screw
screw driver
Robertson (square head)
Philips (star head)
plan
sketch
label
Land and Food Snack Connections:
imported from
exported to
ingredients
labelling on package
(popcorn bag today- review of ingredients and nutrition labelling)
postal code
plant
factory
making a good, better, even better observation
floor hockey - blade, shaft, how to hold, touch point game, puck, control, turns, pivots, stick-handling.
story - drafting, proofreading, drafting...
simple machines - review so far
wheel and axle
box to hold the load
area = regions
Regions of Alberta
Focussing on 6 regions of Alberta:
Canadian Shield
Boreal Forest
Foothills
Rocky Mountain
Parkland
Grassland
Infer
inferring
observing / see / notice / evidence
problem solving group working on problem solving
mutliplication group looking at (method examples in Math Vocabulary page on this website)
multiplication - vertical
multiplication - box method
multiplication chart and how to use and how it works
Alberta - province
British Columbia - province
map
geography
graph
scale
library
The Treasure - book read to us today
Connection to books (texts):
text to self
text to the world
text to text
urban - city
rural - outside of city
Number Sense
What connections to New Year 2024 can we make using what we know about "number sense"
For example:
even
all digits in the number are even
can be divided by 2 (1012)
4-digit number
2 is in tens and thousands place
2's value is 20 if in the tens and 2000 if in the thousands
4 is in ones place and its value is 4
expanded form - 2000 + 20 + 4
expanded form using place value - (2 x 1000) + (2 x 10) + (4 x 1)
algebra - figuring out and replacing a symbol/picture with a number using the clues in each equation
Handwriting: Now should know and be able to do c and a
Spelling - vowels, consonants, syllables
affixes - what we add onto words
prefix - we add at the beginning ( pre, semi , re, un...)
suffix - we add at the end of a word. (ly, y, ing, ...)
semicircle (2 dimensional - half a circle)
hemisphere (3 dimensional - half a sphere)
December 17 - December 22
Chirby is the name of Shadow's friend
Our traditional foods connected to the land
ingredients grown in that land area
now - ingredients can be found around the world because of shipping by boat or plane
grocery story - international food aisle - many of the spices found in other countries such as India, China...
sushi
kimbap
symmetry
algebra
unknown
solving for the unknown
a symbol or picture for a number
showing steps
Building a box:
rectangle
diagonal lines
vertex
vertices
intersect
intersecting lines
parallel lines (the corner marker lines for where to cut)
crease
fold
Math Variety
Mental Math - with times tables
Multiplication and then Division
3 x 2 = 6
6 ÷ 3 = 2
Drawing arrays and grouping them to show for x
Drawing arrays and grouping them to show ÷
Division and then use a Multiplication check
10 ÷ 2 = 5
2 x 5 = 10
Some working on two and three digit dividends
32 ÷ 8
351 ÷ 3
Problem Solving - Problem Solving steps - including "proof" if it would verify answer (ie. subtraction used for a last step - check with addition to be sure that it would get you to the "altogether" answer.
Solstice Lunch
Community Spirit - flash mob line dance
consensus - one fish now has a name: Shadow
naming the fish this week
carolling
story writing
- developing it from our very basic ladder
- using each of the steps we developed (*, **, ***, ****, *****, ******)
- a process
library - books for reading during the break could be signed out
theme spelling words using the rules for the list words
December 4 - December 15
basketball game
30 to 19
difference in scores - won by (11)
consensus - agree together (not a vote)
listen/ hear each other, give and take
Inclined Plane
Does an inclined plane make work easier?
Using different heights, creating greater and smaller angles and measuring the effort to move different weights to answer the question.
Yes, an inclined plane makes work easier.
the, a, an (determiners or articles)
The apple is green.
An apple can be green.
A ball can be green.
The ball was green.
a or an? It depends if the noun following it starts with a vowel or not.
Continuing to build and develop sections of our story:
"Finally" ... The Climax of the story
Plot diagram:
Introduction/Exposition
Problem
Rising Action
Climax
Falling Action
Ending
Multiplication and Division
Connections
Groups of
Arrays
Splitting Arrays into groups
2 x 3 = 6
6 ÷ 2 = 3 (Check 2 x 3 = 6)
6 candies divided by 2 people = 3 each
Take out 2 groups of 3
Library - now on Mondays
Story sections developing
Beginning (4 different ways):
action
dialogue
thoughts/wonder
sound
Middle * (First Section):
Noting :
1. What did the character
see, hear, feel, (smell)
2. What did the character do? (action)
3. What didthe character wonder/worry? (thoughts/feelings)
4. What did the charcter say? (dialogue/exclamation)
5. Sound effects.
Middle ** (Second section)
Noting :
1. What did the character
see, hear, feel, (smell)
2. What did the character do? (action)
3. What didthe character wonder/worry? (thoughts/feelings)
4. What did the charcter say? (dialogue/exclamation)
5. Sound effects.
Hanukkah
8 days
Menorah
8 candles
shamash candle (The candle to light the others.)
dreidel (dreidel game)
latkes
presentation
sky scape
arrays
even rows/columns and how that affects the array.
odd rows/columns and how that affects the array.
managing, fitting, different arrays along and within a specified amount of space.
Winter Solstice
December 21 this year
sun
moon
day
night
light
dark
new moon
quarter moon, 1/4 moon, crescent moon
half moon, 1/2 moon, half moon
three quarter moon, 3/4 moon, gibbous moon
full moon
three quarter moon, 3/4 moon, gibbous moon
half moon, 1/2 moon, half moon
quarter moon, 1/4 moon, crescent moon
new moon
(We did not get to talking about waxing or waning yet. )
arrays
city skyscape
Dialogue - conversation
Quotation Marks
punctuation EXPRESSION
Bob said, "I see a frog."
Bob wondered, "I see a frog?"
Bob exclaimed, "I see a frog!"
"I see a frog," Bob said.
"I see a frog?" Bob wondered.
"I see a frog!" Bob exclaimed.
"Where is my book?" asked the student.
"It is here," replied Bob.
"Thank you," answered the student.
"Wow, look at all the snow coming down!" shouted Susan.
Bob replied, "What are you talking about?"
Susan said, "Look outside, it is snowing."
Multiplication
x 2 x 4 = 8
* 2 * 4 = 8
product
8 is the product (answer when multiplying) of 2 x 4
Creating / drawing arrays for numbers:
9
4
12
20
Some students:
Arrays
Basic FACTS
Basic Fact TREES
(Circling while listing)
List factors - creating a set of factors
Rainbow check
November 20 - December 1
story beginning - 4 different ways to develop beginning:
Working on one way: "action" beginning.
spelling
adverbs
add description to a verb
describe verbs (actions)
twirling - slowly, quickly, frantically, boldy, angrily, softly
floating - happily, sadly, awkwardly
time to the nearest minute
effort
inclined plane
grams
difference
verbs
action words
twirling - twirl - twirled
swirling - swirl - swirled
floating - float - floating
library - read aloud - Building a Snowman
gymnastics:
mats
trestle
climber - ladder, rope, bars
bench
pose
high pose
medium pose
low pose
one point
two points
three points
four points
donkey kick
tuck in chin
tuck squat
time to the nearest quarter hour
15 minutes after
15 minutes past
quarter past
15 minutes to
quarter to
Problem Solving - continued for some
synonyms - words that have a similar meaning
job / occupation / profession
apparel / clothing
fractions - parts of
numerator (on top)
denominator (on bottom)
1/2 (half)
1/1 = 1 whole
Skittles - Fractions of each colour:
1/14 - purple
3 / 14 - yellow
6 / 14 - orange
4 / 14 - green
snowflake
characters
protagonist - the character the reader wants to be successful in the end, the "good" one, the reader is "for" or "pro".
antagonist - the character the reader does not want to succeed, is against the protagonist causing the protagonist problems, the "bad" one, the reader is "anti" / against this character.
setting: place and time (where and when)
beginning
middle
end
problem
solution - trial 1, trial 2, finally trial 3
picture prompt writing
rounding to 10's and 100's review
presenting Recess Rules! work to another class.
rivers
glacier
kilometers
kilometers per hour
watershed
Bow River - river
Bow Lake
Parkland Region
equivalent fractions
computation review check in
analogies:
synonyms
happy is to cheerful as tiny is to small
antonyms
open is to close as hard is to soft
rhyme
chair is to hair as log is to dog
Homophones
toe is to two as tale is to tail
Parts of a Whole and Groupings:
student is to class as singer is to choir
heel is to foot as palm is to hand
Citrus Fruits: grapefruit, oranges, lemons, limes
Vitamin C
Boreal Forest
coniferous and deciduous trees
poplars
trembling aspen
Western wood lily
bunch berry
fire weed
wild strawberry
mushroom
photosynthesis: sunlight, chlorophyll, water, and carbon dioxide gas (to create their own energy)
hawk
beaver
insects
Kananaskis Area
Peter Lougheed Provincial Park
land and recreation (hike, ski, climb)
tourism - lodge
cylinder pillar
triangular pillar
rectangular pillar
most mass supported by?
lacrosse
carry
scoop up
pass
April 15 - April 26
Paint by the Crosswalk speaker and information
community
action
connections
writing:
Beginning Sentence / introduction
leading to middle with information
Ending sentence as closure
Transition from idea to idea
Varying sentence beginnings
Writing so that explanations are clear to a reader and questions would not be needed to understand what you were saying in your writing.
www.albertaparks.ca/parks/central/goose-mountain-er/information-facilities/
fractions
adding fractions with like (same denominators
showing how adding works (licorice)
Other regions: parkland, grassland, boreal forest, (Rocky Mountain, foothills, Canadian Shield)
Foothills Region of Alberta
foot of the mountain
top, peak, summit, apex
Chinooks
warm moist air from the ocean
West side - drops rain
warm air coming over and warming the area
Sometimes Cold Alberta Clippers -
rolling hills
rolling grasslands
river valleys
forested hills
dam - controls water flow
vegetation - plants
natural resources: fish, oil, gas, coal
Goose Mountain Ecological Reserve
connecting photography to writing poetry
reworking phrases
magazines
magazine article
pillars
beams
span
rectangular beam
box girder beam
accordion beam
pillars / supports
strength
load/mass
April 8 - April 12
identifying fractions
fractions of a whole
fractions of a set
licorice fractions
denominator
adding fractions with the same denominator
Reviewing of finding
the sum
the difference
the product
the quotient
and "checks" to go with them
rectangle
rectanglular prism
volume (capacity - contain - what something could hold - what is inside the 3-D structure)
Bow glacier
Bow river
Bow falls
Calgary's water
What runs but never walks? Water
photography:
exposure
light
eye
pupil
wide circle - letting in more light
small circle - letting in less light
outdoor photography practice
light and shadow
descriptive vocubaulary
nouns
adjectives
verbs
phrases
syllables
Haiku
new students
April 2 - April 5
Alberta
regions
resources:
renewable
non-renewable
fuel
benefit
connection to jobs/occupations
landforms
glaciers
Antarctica
Greenland
All continents
wonderful
vocabulary
new student
music
Operation Earth Day
Oh What a Wonderful World
We Have the Whole World in our Hands
- animals and plants are important to take care of
- animal sound contest as part of our Operation Earth Day!
- plays, skits, word scrambles, trivia, research, announcements, songs
asking questions that are not "yes" "no" questions
cinquain review
cinquain writing - water
math:
statistics
data
estimation
dividing
factors
prime numbers (only two factors - one and itself)
fractions
fraction of a whole
fraction of a set
March 18 - March 21
Which shape will support the most mass?
(arch, rectangular)
racquet sports
problem solving review
sum (answer when adding)
difference (answer when subtracting)
product (answer when multiplying)
quotient (answer when multiplying)
45 678 , 67 894 (Find the Sum)
45 123 , 27 985 (Find the Difference)
456 , 7 (Find the Product)
49 ÷ 7 (Find the Quotient)
factors
angles
acute
right
obtuse
estimate
triangles
acute triange (all three are tiny)
right triangle ("right" wins)
obtuse triangle (obtuse wins)
Labelling to identify an angle
measuring
landforms:
mountains
hills
valleys
glaciers
erosion
library - listening to the picture book Cry.
March 11 - March 15
shapes vs polygons
polygons:
straight lines
closed
regular polygons - all sides are the same length (congruent to each other)
irregular polygons - not all sides are the same length
congruent
triangle ( 3 sides)
quadrilaterals (4 sides):
square
rectangle
parallelogram
trapezoid
rhombus
pentagon (5 sides)
hexagon (6 sides)
heptagon (7 sides)
octagon (8 sides)
nonagon ( 9 sides )
decagon (10 sides )
Landforms
Mountains
March 4 - March 8
current events - events (things happening) in our world today
- for example - The City of Calgary talking about Water Conservation
- connecting this to Earth Day and working on Operation Earth Day leading toward an Earth Day assembly.
cinquain
cinquain poem - 5 lines
specific parts:
title - subject of the poem
adjectives about the subject (2)
verbs about the subject (3)
feeling about the subject (4 words)
synonym for the subject (1 word)
quatrain
4 line part of a larger piece
A verse in a poem
Connecting couplets and quatrains to music class and picture book read alouds
Verbs - action words (walk, walking, smile, smiling, think, thinking...
Verbs connected to an icicle
Paragraphs:
Beginning
Middle
End
Like a hamburger
First Sentence (top bun) - Topic Sentence
Middle - filled with the interesting facts connected to the topic
Last sentence (bottom bun) - Sentence to end/wrap up the paragraph topic - similar to the topic sentence (not exact, but has some of the same words in it).
Writing a paragraph about the topic of plants/flora of the Canadian Shield Region of Alberta
couplets - in poetry - looked at in music - two lines that rhyme
I saw a comical bunny,
It was very funny.
Boreal Forest Region of Alberta
- Largest natural reagion of Alberta
- noticing how the people and the land are connected - First Nations people using resources, such as the trees (wood) in the past - snow shoes, sleds; hunting the moose and fishing and using all parts and not wasting any.
Canadian Shield Region
Precambrium time period - 600 million to 4.6 billion years ago.
Many fossils are found in the Canadian Shield.
Cold climate
(climate vs weather)
Winter - about six to eight months - snow up to approximately 160 cm.
Long "daylight" hours in the summer
watch Northern Lights
Social Studies Research
Colour coding jot-note categories: fauna/animals, flora/plant life, Fort Chipewyan, Landforms, jobs/industries, history, First Nations, climate, location
Ordering jot-notes (using numbers) - having a reason for this order
Math
Dividing Group
- finding factors or traditional long division with multiplication check or problem solving (depending on which group you were working in)
- dividing - some groups working on initial stage of dividing down the side and other groups working on traditional algorithm dividing with muiltiplication checks.
- dividing efficiently (pulling out the most number of groups possible at once)
- dividing - placing the answer down the side and then on the top (leading toward dividing using the traditional algorithm)
Fraction Group
- fraction - 7 / 10 7 out of 10 7 shaded in pieces out of ten pieces.
- basic fraction terminology: numerator, demoninator, equal, parts...
- equivalent fractions - the how to create in number (not yet knowing how to show or explain)
[ 2 / 3 = 4 / 6] We times the denominator and the numerator by the same number
Cross Multiply to check
Finding the missing number ? / 4 = 2 / 8 ? x 8 = 4 x 2
Wild Winter Weather - writing prompt - notice the alliteration, notice two major key words to write about if stuck on how to begin.
thermometer - measuring device of heat (therm)
At 0 degrees Celsius water freezes (turns to ice)
Above 0 degrees Celsius we say + (plus() a number degrees Celsius
Below 0 degrees Celsius we say - (minus) a number degrees Celsius
If the temperature was - 30 degrees Celsius and rose to +10 degrees Celsius, the temperature would have risen 40 degrees Celsius.
Today our temperature outside felt like - (minus) 27 degrees Celsius
February 26 - March 1
Canadian Shield Region of Alberta
more jot noting such as but not limited to
North West Trading Company
Hudson's Bay Company
settlements
demographics
population
Wood Buffalo National Park
remote location
flora
fauna
Photography:
rule of thirds
(and learning to fold a paper into thirds)
horizontal
vertical
intersecting lines
horizon
distractions
subject
why
Venn diagrams (some of us looked at these today).
Music - great singing and knowing of the words!!!
factors
factor x factor = product
What factors go into making a Rice Krispie Square product?
What factors go into making a "6" product?
1 x 6 = 6
2 x 3 = 6
Photography - creating a slide show presentation of our first set of outdoor photos and labelling what viewpoint was used (look up (ant's eye) , look down (bird's eye), move around, back up, move in, Take it for a sping, go high, get low)
February 12 - February 23
Parts of Speech: Noun, adjective, verb, adverb
icicle - adjectives
Focus on photography outdoors
abstract art: shape, line,value, form, colour, texture
concrete/specific art image: constructed to be something recognized such as a face, house - viewer can identify it as what it is.
Probem Solving
Act out, draw out the parts of the "story" to help you understand what it is about
units (g,kg, cm, m, km...)
units must be the same when you add them to start with: 1 kg = 1000 g so 2 kg = 2000g
components = specific parts of
Sweet Spot 14
Using only 7, 4, 9, 8, 10, 2
Use two or more of the numbers in an equation (challenge is to try and use all six of them)
See how many different equations you can get to equal 14.
Can only use a number once
May use any of the operations (plus, minus, times, divide)
Trying to get answer to equal 14
Over and Under the Snow
heavy eyes = tired
morsel = small piece of (as in food that the vole left from the year before)
Nouns - snow, leaf, deer, tree(s), people
Adjectives (describe or 'ADD' decription to a noun) - white, cold, icy, smooth, wavy, airborne ...)
robotics:
coding
distance
direction
angle
program
brain
Motors:
- move the robot exact distances and at exact speeds
- small cameras inside the motor tell it how much to rotate
Ultrasonic Sensor
- The speaker plays a sound no humans can hear and the microphone listens to the sound.
- A computer inside measures the time the sound takes to echo and calculates the distance away from a wall.
(like echolocation used by a bat)
Chasis Blocks
- used to control both motors on the robot, which are connected to the wheels
- controls BOTH. motors at the same time (For example [move FORWARD 100 centimeters / TURN left 90 )
Challenge:
Get through the maze without crashing into a wall.
gears:
diameter
rotation
ratio (if one goes all the way around, how many times did the other one go around)
speed - smaller in diameter gear - more speed
bicycle
bevelled gears (at 90 degree angles - see if you have a hand mixer with one
gears - noticing the direction they move (2 gears, 3 gears, more...)
multiplication - 2-digit x 1-digit - traditional method
Storybook - working on illustrations to go with the important parts of the story.
Floor hockey continues
February 5 - February 9
Dance Performance!
Kindness - writing prompt
current events - things that are currently (right now) happening
in the news - conserving water
conserving - not wasting or overusing
ideas:
- shut off tap when brushing teeth
- keeping jug of water in fridge so not running water to make it cold
physical basic needs:
food
clothing
shelter
angles:
right = 90 degree
acute - less than 90 degrees
obtuse - more than 90 degrees
straight - 180 degrees
circle - 360 degrees
measuring angles
protractor
line up target with vertex
place line on horizon line
go out to the zero (0)
follow the line from 0 to the other line and look at the number there
Math activities - focussing on place value and multiplication
gears
teeth
sizes
circle
diameter ( d ) (distance aross a circle)
Circumference (C) - distance around a circle (basically perimeter of a circle)
movement
direction
Rectangle:
4 right angles
4 vertices
opposite sides are parallel
opposite sides are equal in length (CONGRUENT)
Congruent (equal in length or measurement as in length of the sides of a rectangle.
Square:
4 right angles
4 vertices
opposite sides are parallel
all sides are equal
all sides are congruent
factors
factor x factor = product
3 x 4 = 12
basic FACTS - helpful to remember what a factor is (what can be multiplied together to get a product.
1 x 20 = 20
2 x 10 = 20
4 x 5 = 20
Angle
Viewpoint
Perspective
Math Angle:
2 lines meet and an angle is formed
Right angle
90 degree angle
square angle
(signal for turning right when riding a bicycle)
A rectangle has four right angles.
lIbrary - Book about Canadian Animals
January 29 - February 2
Simile - figure of speech - comparison of similar things using "like" or "as"
The ball was red like a cherry.
The ball was red like a cherry.
Perimeter - distance around a shape.
Today we calculated the perimeter of a rectangle.
We then calculated the perimeter of a rectangle with a quarter of it gone.
Using ( ) to show our brain path in math.
Authors extraordinaire! - fine tuning dialogue, paragraphs and then some are "chunking"
Fort Chipewyan. (named after the Chipewyan people who lived in that area).
Fort chip
hamlet
By Wood Buffalo National Park
about (approximately) 200 km north of Fort McMurray.
one of the oldest European settlements in Alberta
trading post
North West Company 1788
Dance Moves:
start pose
grape vine: ( step, behind, step, together - clap) change directions ( step, behind, step, together - clap)
prep: dust shoulder, dust shoulder, wash palms in, wash palms in
funky jumping jack: count ( 1and, 2and, 3and, 4and, 5,6,7,8 ) (arms wide, hands together - other direction arms wide, hands together /
arms open, pose, kind of a dab, arms up wide shake head, point eight counts, other way point eight counts, stamp bend knee forward - clap, other foot stamp bend knee forward - clap, step back stamp foot knee bend - clap, other side step stamp foot knee - clap, step/stamp forward left, step/stamp forward right, step/stamp left back, step/stamp right back, criss cross, palms up cookie left, palms up cookie right...
more dance moves...
Alberta
Canadian Shield
ice road
more animals
lichens, ferns
jack pine, aspen trees, black spruce
bogs
Bearberry, Common Blueberry, Bog cranberry and Labrador Tea.
climate
wood harvesting
fishing
trapping
subject
predicate
sentence
fragment
problem solving:
Quest/Question:
Data:
D.M.U.:
Findings:
syllable
vowel sound
closed syllable (at, bat, dig, hog, lug...)
open syllable (me, my, he, ...)
vowel team syllables:
ea - tea, beat, clean...
oa - float, boat...
ee - seed, feed...
ai - pail, sail, plain...
January 22 - January 26
3-D
3 Dimensional (length, width, height)
cube - 6 faces
net of a cube - we could outline connected squares flat and fold up to make a cube
rectangular prism:
6 faces
8 vertices
12 edges
erosion
rocky cliffs
Jack Pine, Aspen Poplar
Peregrine Falcon, Sandhill Crane, Pelican
roots anchored in rocks and little soil
moose, gray wolf
Canadian toad
Lake Athabasca
Canadian Shield
jot notes - how
text features - bold text, coloured text, text, pictures
photographer residency
subject
viewpoint
up
down
around
back up
move in
take it for a spin
get high
get low
Multiplying
two-digit by one-digit
three-digit by one-digit
box method
tried two-digit by two-digit for fun using box method
Now working on doing the steps under the vertical question, starting with the tens and also starting with the ones (working our way to the traditional algorithm.)
Review of reading our work to "the wall" or another person (using a dramatic stage voice listening for and feeling punctuation stops (periods) and pauses (commas).
Review of paragraphing
Review of how to set up dialogue punctuation (quotation marks and commas)
Library - book Hidden Gems
Daily writing - response to building a "vehicle that moves / moved "
January 16 - January 19
paragraphing
paragraph punch (purple paragraph punch)
Same ideas withing a paragraph.
Each time there is dialogue (conversation; quotation marks) - indent for a paragraph punch
A paragraph for the story is sort of like a part of a film. The camera would be focused on that part of the story (that paragraph), when it would move to someone specific talking it would adjust and focus on that (new paragraph), then when the story is talking about something else the photographer would be focussing the camera on something else - new paragraph...
We looked at a chapter book and noticed how the author had indented for paragraphs and dialogue.
times tables for multiplication - practice
music - recorders - practise
Drafting - in writing and in building vehicles
First draft
Modifiy (outline - build - change - fix - edit - revise - test out - read again...)
Another draft
Modifiy (change - fix - edit - revise - test out - read again...)
Another draft ...
library time - "Thing-a-ma-gig"
Calgary Humane Society
"Don't Feed the Bears"
jot- notes coming tomorrow
building our vehicles that will "move"
paragraphing our stories
new paragraph indent each time a character speaks
new paragraph indent when topic in story changes
Building with a variety (different) materials
Choosing materials based on what would be best for what you are doing and what works best with the other materials that you are using.
For example even with tape - picking the right one for what you are using it for.)
Scotch tape
masking tape
duct tape (it was and can be used to wrap air ducts)
duct
skewer
straw
plastic bottle cap
wheel
box / base / body
safety!!!! (when making holes, using tools, ...)
measuring to have opposite sides of a 3-D (box) have a hole in exactly the same spot on each side.
screw
screw driver
Robertson (square head)
Philips (star head)
plan
sketch
label
Land and Food Snack Connections:
imported from
exported to
ingredients
labelling on package
(popcorn bag today- review of ingredients and nutrition labelling)
postal code
plant
factory
making a good, better, even better observation
floor hockey - blade, shaft, how to hold, touch point game, puck, control, turns, pivots, stick-handling.
story - drafting, proofreading, drafting...
simple machines - review so far
wheel and axle
box to hold the load
area = regions
Regions of Alberta
Focussing on 6 regions of Alberta:
Canadian Shield
Boreal Forest
Foothills
Rocky Mountain
Parkland
Grassland
Infer
inferring
observing / see / notice / evidence
problem solving group working on problem solving
mutliplication group looking at (method examples in Math Vocabulary page on this website)
multiplication - vertical
multiplication - box method
multiplication chart and how to use and how it works
Alberta - province
British Columbia - province
map
geography
graph
scale
library
The Treasure - book read to us today
Connection to books (texts):
text to self
text to the world
text to text
urban - city
rural - outside of city
Number Sense
What connections to New Year 2024 can we make using what we know about "number sense"
For example:
even
all digits in the number are even
can be divided by 2 (1012)
4-digit number
2 is in tens and thousands place
2's value is 20 if in the tens and 2000 if in the thousands
4 is in ones place and its value is 4
expanded form - 2000 + 20 + 4
expanded form using place value - (2 x 1000) + (2 x 10) + (4 x 1)
algebra - figuring out and replacing a symbol/picture with a number using the clues in each equation
Handwriting: Now should know and be able to do c and a
Spelling - vowels, consonants, syllables
affixes - what we add onto words
prefix - we add at the beginning ( pre, semi , re, un...)
suffix - we add at the end of a word. (ly, y, ing, ...)
semicircle (2 dimensional - half a circle)
hemisphere (3 dimensional - half a sphere)
December 17 - December 22
Chirby is the name of Shadow's friend
Our traditional foods connected to the land
ingredients grown in that land area
now - ingredients can be found around the world because of shipping by boat or plane
grocery story - international food aisle - many of the spices found in other countries such as India, China...
sushi
kimbap
symmetry
algebra
unknown
solving for the unknown
a symbol or picture for a number
showing steps
Building a box:
rectangle
diagonal lines
vertex
vertices
intersect
intersecting lines
parallel lines (the corner marker lines for where to cut)
crease
fold
Math Variety
Mental Math - with times tables
Multiplication and then Division
3 x 2 = 6
6 ÷ 3 = 2
Drawing arrays and grouping them to show for x
Drawing arrays and grouping them to show ÷
Division and then use a Multiplication check
10 ÷ 2 = 5
2 x 5 = 10
Some working on two and three digit dividends
32 ÷ 8
351 ÷ 3
Problem Solving - Problem Solving steps - including "proof" if it would verify answer (ie. subtraction used for a last step - check with addition to be sure that it would get you to the "altogether" answer.
Solstice Lunch
Community Spirit - flash mob line dance
consensus - one fish now has a name: Shadow
naming the fish this week
carolling
story writing
- developing it from our very basic ladder
- using each of the steps we developed (*, **, ***, ****, *****, ******)
- a process
library - books for reading during the break could be signed out
theme spelling words using the rules for the list words
December 4 - December 15
basketball game
30 to 19
difference in scores - won by (11)
consensus - agree together (not a vote)
listen/ hear each other, give and take
Inclined Plane
Does an inclined plane make work easier?
Using different heights, creating greater and smaller angles and measuring the effort to move different weights to answer the question.
Yes, an inclined plane makes work easier.
the, a, an (determiners or articles)
The apple is green.
An apple can be green.
A ball can be green.
The ball was green.
a or an? It depends if the noun following it starts with a vowel or not.
Continuing to build and develop sections of our story:
"Finally" ... The Climax of the story
Plot diagram:
Introduction/Exposition
Problem
Rising Action
Climax
Falling Action
Ending
Multiplication and Division
Connections
Groups of
Arrays
Splitting Arrays into groups
2 x 3 = 6
6 ÷ 2 = 3 (Check 2 x 3 = 6)
6 candies divided by 2 people = 3 each
Take out 2 groups of 3
Library - now on Mondays
Story sections developing
Beginning (4 different ways):
action
dialogue
thoughts/wonder
sound
Middle * (First Section):
Noting :
1. What did the character
see, hear, feel, (smell)
2. What did the character do? (action)
3. What didthe character wonder/worry? (thoughts/feelings)
4. What did the charcter say? (dialogue/exclamation)
5. Sound effects.
Middle ** (Second section)
Noting :
1. What did the character
see, hear, feel, (smell)
2. What did the character do? (action)
3. What didthe character wonder/worry? (thoughts/feelings)
4. What did the charcter say? (dialogue/exclamation)
5. Sound effects.
Hanukkah
8 days
Menorah
8 candles
shamash candle (The candle to light the others.)
dreidel (dreidel game)
latkes
presentation
sky scape
arrays
even rows/columns and how that affects the array.
odd rows/columns and how that affects the array.
managing, fitting, different arrays along and within a specified amount of space.
Winter Solstice
December 21 this year
sun
moon
day
night
light
dark
new moon
quarter moon, 1/4 moon, crescent moon
half moon, 1/2 moon, half moon
three quarter moon, 3/4 moon, gibbous moon
full moon
three quarter moon, 3/4 moon, gibbous moon
half moon, 1/2 moon, half moon
quarter moon, 1/4 moon, crescent moon
new moon
(We did not get to talking about waxing or waning yet. )
arrays
city skyscape
Dialogue - conversation
Quotation Marks
punctuation EXPRESSION
Bob said, "I see a frog."
Bob wondered, "I see a frog?"
Bob exclaimed, "I see a frog!"
"I see a frog," Bob said.
"I see a frog?" Bob wondered.
"I see a frog!" Bob exclaimed.
"Where is my book?" asked the student.
"It is here," replied Bob.
"Thank you," answered the student.
"Wow, look at all the snow coming down!" shouted Susan.
Bob replied, "What are you talking about?"
Susan said, "Look outside, it is snowing."
Multiplication
x 2 x 4 = 8
* 2 * 4 = 8
product
8 is the product (answer when multiplying) of 2 x 4
Creating / drawing arrays for numbers:
9
4
12
20
Some students:
Arrays
Basic FACTS
Basic Fact TREES
(Circling while listing)
List factors - creating a set of factors
Rainbow check
November 20 - December 1
story beginning - 4 different ways to develop beginning:
Working on one way: "action" beginning.
spelling
adverbs
add description to a verb
describe verbs (actions)
twirling - slowly, quickly, frantically, boldy, angrily, softly
floating - happily, sadly, awkwardly
time to the nearest minute
effort
inclined plane
grams
difference
verbs
action words
twirling - twirl - twirled
swirling - swirl - swirled
floating - float - floating
library - read aloud - Building a Snowman
gymnastics:
mats
trestle
climber - ladder, rope, bars
bench
pose
high pose
medium pose
low pose
one point
two points
three points
four points
donkey kick
tuck in chin
tuck squat
time to the nearest quarter hour
15 minutes after
15 minutes past
quarter past
15 minutes to
quarter to
Problem Solving - continued for some
synonyms - words that have a similar meaning
job / occupation / profession
apparel / clothing
fractions - parts of
numerator (on top)
denominator (on bottom)
1/2 (half)
1/1 = 1 whole
Skittles - Fractions of each colour:
1/14 - purple
3 / 14 - yellow
6 / 14 - orange
4 / 14 - green
snowflake
characters
protagonist - the character the reader wants to be successful in the end, the "good" one, the reader is "for" or "pro".
antagonist - the character the reader does not want to succeed, is against the protagonist causing the protagonist problems, the "bad" one, the reader is "anti" / against this character.
setting: place and time (where and when)
beginning
middle
end
problem
solution - trial 1, trial 2, finally trial 3
picture prompt writing
rounding to 10's and 100's review
presenting Recess Rules! work to another class.
rivers
glacier
kilometers
kilometers per hour
watershed
Bow River - river
Bow Lake
map
scale on a map
1 cm equals a certain number of kilometers
distance from Calgary to Edmonton (measuring on a map using the scale)
effort arm longer, easier to lift load
Quest: How does the length of the effort arm make a difference to lifting a load?
Data: Chart/table we filled in
Observations:
Findings: Answer to the question
FLE
123
first class lever (teeter totter, lifting a rock out of ground lever pole, scissors)
second class lever (wheelbarrow)
third class lever (broom, hockey stick)
Continuing to read analog clocks:
- nearest hour
- nearest 5 minutes
- nearest 30 minutes (half hour)
- time past / after (half past two)
- time to (ten minutes to nine)
-elapsed time (how much time has gone by)
birthdays
music
library
Veterans Food Bank Announcements
lever
fulcrum
effort arm
load arm
lifting a large rock with a lever
everyday things such as a fork
expanded form
5432 = 5000 + 400 + 30 + 2
expanded form with place value
5432 = (5 x 1000) + (4 x 100) + (3 x 10) + (2 x 1)
subtraction
vertical form
addition check
province
Alberta
1905
mountains - natural border
man made borders
city
Calgary
country
Canada
continent
North America
community / neighbourhood
University Heights
common noun
Proper noun
attribute - characteristic
range
time - 5 minute intervals, carefully watching when the hour hand is close, but not at the next hour.
word work
nouns
common noun (city, school, girl)
Proper noun (Calgary, University, Matilda)
Science - Findings: and then Making Connections / Further Questions:
November 6 - November 17th
Veterans Food Bank Boxes - ready to be filled
Group / Team work
Listening to and saying (not writing) sounds, syllables
Simple Machines Challenge:
How to get Baymax from one end of the table to the other using three different simple machines.
Rounding to the nearest ten - review for some
Saying number to the millions - review for some
conserve - save
perishable vs. non-perishable
simple machines - preview:
lever
wheel and axle
wedge
inclined plane
screw
pulley
spring scale (weight) - grams
machine - makes work easier
expanded form - review
expanded form using place value - review and new learning for some
time - continuing
Remembrance Day Assembly
Ms. Robins - training uniform, her husbands air force uniform
canteen
gas mask
first aid kit
veterans
Veterans Food Bank
Food and other groups working as steward to lead our upcoming Veterans Food Bank Drive.
Daylight Saving Time
Analog clock
small hand - hour hand
long hand - minute hand
o'clock
4:00 (four o'clock)
telling time
poppy
100 years
scale
weigh
weight
observing changes
measuring differences
book fair
basketball
warm up
dribble
pivot
take away
octopus
chest pass
bounce pass
three person weave
cookie jar
aim
shoot
pumpkin remains observing further
moisture evaporating
moisture squeezing out
dehydrating
October 30 - November 3
Waste and Our World
pumpkin observations
- freezing, changing its structure, connections to our ground freezing and melting, waiting to see what is now going to happen, comparing to pumpkins molding that haven't been frozen, ...
subtraction, including addition check (two to five-digit numbers)
problem solving - focussing on the steps and doing word problems
pumpkin
starting our responses - beginning/introduction sentences were strong and could lead to next sentences in writing
Music - three ways to do percussion: rub, shake, hit/tap
closed syllable (consonant after vowel, closes the syllable and makes the vowel short). For example: at, cat, bath, bas...
bas ket (basket) A 2 syllable word made up of two closed syllables.
jowl vowel
vowel sound = syllable
word work - do a pretest and practise in coil book
orange duotang - spelling tests, new word lists, tasks
rations
rationing Halloween Candy
ratio (2 candies each day). ( 2 candies : 1 day )
rate - eating at the speed of 2 candies per day (2 candies a day)
Math Problem Solving:
1. read, read, read
2. highlight key words / pieces of information
3. Quest: (What is the question we are trying to discover the answer to?)
4. Data/Clues: (LISTING the pieces of information/clues that you will use to get the answer.
5. D.M.U.: Showing how you work to get and answer (calculations, drawings, charts, tables,...)
6. Findings: In a complete meaningful sentence, stating the answer to the quest. (Part of the quest wording will be in the Findings' sentence.)
October 16 - 27
assembly
grateful
thankful
appreciate
5 Minutes
student picture book read aloud
text to self (connections)
double beam balance
grams - going up by ones
grams - going up by tens
see - saw or teeter totter (similar to a this balance scale)
balancing a weight to figure out a weight
How much did the blueberry yogurt weigh ? [Total weight - weight of the container ]
Friday Quiz
Spelling Test
Problem Solving:
Read, read, read
Highlight key words
Quest: (What is the question you are trying to find the answer to?)
subtraction
subtraction check ( addition ) - do each time
Library - Hallo-weiner ( picture )
North America - continent (Canada is on this continent)
snow
snowfall
snowflakes
atmosphere
vapour
temperature
cold
condense on particles in sky
hexagonal crystals
Why does it snow in Fall?
Earth tilt
Earth revolves around sun
Where we are in relation to the equator
How high (elevation)
proofreading our daily writing
creating a critical thinking question from our own writing and then developing it to become deeper (asking something that one could research or investigate to really answer and understand.
grids (review)
graphs
plotting points on a graph
x axis
y axis
ordered pairs
(x,y)
coordinates
O Canada
Questions we have connected to that
Basketball: warm up, dribbling, stop and pivoting
Thriller - movement piece
Pond Measurement Referents
cm (baby finger)
mm (10 mm in a cm)
0.1 = 1 mm
4.7 cm = 4 whole cm + 0.7 of a cm
tape measure - 1 meter = 100 cm
trundle wheel - measuring meters
measuring our hallway and route around the school
Library time - story - character Little Boo
Basketball - warm up drills, dribbling practice, keep away
Math - place value - yahtzee
Writing - critical thinking question
Pond Walk ( - 2 degrees Celsius )
leaf pressing
Mental Math strategy - using place value in our heads to add larger numbers quickly.
For example:
457 + 328
(400 + 300 ) = 700
then
( 700 + 70 ) = 770
then
( 770 + 15 ) = 785
It takes time and practise; it is not easy
music - first day learning about recorders (Today's note to learn and practise is B )
basketball has begun - warm up/ skills practice: taught/reviewed
Pond Walk - North, West, South, East
+1 degrees Celsius
dropped to -2 degrees Celsius
word work - spelling
proofreading review
October 10 - 13
Calculator - Place and Value Game
Rounding
Inky Math Puzzle
Proofreading for sentence end (red), sentence beginning capital (green), cross of conjunction if it is at the beginning of a sentence (brown), underline possible misspellings (orange)
Picture Prompt
Prefix - A small piece that goes in front of a word. It changes the meaning.
Example:
pretest - a test that is not the real one that you have before the real one.
pre = before
prewash - a washing before you wear the clothing
re = again
renew - take out the book new again
redo - do something AGAIN
Salute! - math fact for a team of 3 (currently doing Addition Salute!)
Google Classroom - flashcards
Rounding to the nearest 10, 100, and for some (1000, 10 000, 100 000)
Skipping the basic facts
recorders
whole note
dotted half note
half note
quarter note
4 count/ta
3 count/ta
2 count/ta
1 count/ta
Hey Bob, "Is this a sentence?"
Proofreading for complete sentences.
Rounding to the nearest hundred
Creating, editing playground rules slide show presentations
October 2 - October 6
Terry Fox Run - run 1 minute, walk 2 minutes, ...
Assembly
spelling test
Friday quiz
Splat!
Rounding to the nearest ten
Number line mountain peaks 0 to 10 with the peak at 5, then 10 to 20 and the peak would be 15 and so the pattern goes.
Review of estimating - data, range, mode, median
paragraphing - indent - one topical idea
Synonyms - words that mean sort of the same - For example hard / difficult / challenging (Each of those words kind of means the same thing.)
Print making
Adding - finding the sum - review and test questions
Music - syllables - 4 syllable responses to what you are grateful for
Writing - reasons for why you made the colour choice that you did - your "rationale" for why you chose the pencil crayon colours that you did to do your leaf rubbing.
Salute (One person gives the sum while the other two try and figure out their card.)
Medium - coloured pencil crayon
long rope
Home strength and conditioning - practice
September 25 - September 28
- States of matter: gas, liquid, solid (water vapour, water liquid, ice )
- How does a thermometer work? - molecules moving and spreading out with heat, and coming together when cooler. Making a type of homemade thermometer.
- Question from yesterday's question (thinking about a next idea) - Who invented the thermometer; or how did someone come up with the idea of a thermometer?
- Leaf Observation:
What do you see - be specific and clear (colour including creating a colour swatch, length, width, margin (edge of leaf), shape
What do you feel / texture (front of and back of)
What do you smell?
Science-Art - Leaf Rubbing (Medium - writing pencil ) - on white photocopy paper. Shading technique with edge of pencil.
- art reflection on the sketch of the twig:
What I would want you to notice, and why. Explain
What I did well, with an explanation
What was challenging/hard/difficult for me doing this art sketch (explain)
What would I do next time; explain
- add / sum / +
- using dice and working at own personal level for now (one-digit, two-digit, three-digit ...)
- double dutch - some are now able to turn the rop
- raining leaves
- thermometer
- temperature in degrees Celsius
- "yellow" leaf??!! - no - what kind of yellow? mustard yellow, banana yellow, maple sugar browned yellow...
- art
- sketch
- twig
- blind contour
- modified blind contour
- drawing from out to in
- drawing from in to out
- final draft
- artist's workshop and tone
- Fall / Autumn Rainbow
- daily writing
- photo day
September 18 - September 21
- Fall equinox
- Autumnal equinox
- 12 months in a year
- Each season is 1/4 of a year
- 1/4's on a number line
- 1/4's shown as sections in a circle
- Balance - equinox - equal =
- 12 hours daylight = 12 hours night light
- Colour coding the seasons (orange, blue, green, yellow)
- Library
- puddling
- Field trip - reflection
- Skipping - warm up then long jump focus
- Teddy Bear, teddy bear turn around, Teddy Bear, teddy bear, touch the ground, Teddy bear, teddy bear reach the sky, Teddy bear, teddy bear say good-bye
- Teaching / Coaching the grade 3's skipping
- Music - beats, rhythm
- bison
- valley
- foothills
- bow river
- filtering water
- fescue grass
- artifacts
- ecofacts
- archaeology
- archaeology dig
- train
- flatbed cars
- c-cans
- quarry
- sandstone
- Standard Form 456
- Expanded Form 400 + 50 + 6
- Expanded Form Using Place Value (4 x 100) + (5 x 10) + (6 x 1)
- 7 Continents: North America, South America, Africa, Europe, Asia, Australia, Antarctica
- Compass Rose with North, East, South, West and North-East, South-East, South-West, North-West
- Long Rope: you need three on each team (Each member of the team is critical - two turning the rope and one skipping)
- Jump when the rope hits the ground
- Recess Rules! - Panel of guests to help us revise our first drafts
September 11 - September 15
- EV EN numbers end with 0, 2, 4, 6, 8
For example, these are even numbers 58, 318, 114, 506, 3570
- team work
- skipping personal goals:
forward / front
backwards / back
cross overs
turning a long rope
skipping a long rope
jumping into a long rope
- finishing off taking photos and looking at yesterday's photos
- photographer
- director
- actors
- how to hold the camera
- thousands house for place value - using it to read a number.
- music - patterns and switching - increasing temp
- Above the Land - writing prompt
- Playground Rules - Recess Rules!
(Safe play rules for playground equipment, photographer, director, actors)
- Leaf Man - picture read to class today - author creates illustrations using things/parts of things she has found
- Library - choosing a just-right book and reading
- units/ones house
- thousands house
- standard and expanded form
- greater than and less than signs - look for the large opening for the large ball or large number
- (for some, expanded form using place value)
-
- Under the Land
- Prepositions: We DID NOT dictionary define it. We talked about what a preposition is and looked at examples of prepositions and showed them in action with a felt marker. a PrePOSITION can show the POSITION - and be where a PREPpy rabbit can go - to, under, beside, through, above, at, on, in...
- Dictionary Definition - A preposition is a word used before a noun, pronoun, or noun phrase to show direciton, time, place, location, or spatial relationships.
- Reading - punctuation makes a difference (. ? ! ) - We imagined a different picture for "In the bag are Jim's snacks." " In the bag are Jim's snacks?" "In the bag are Jim's snacks!"
- Skipping - always working on personal goal - not what others are doing; step by step following the progression as one is ready: rope over head, jump once over rope, jumps twice in a row, three times, as many as possible, remembering to stand up and also to be able to put a bounce in after the jump, then backwards, then cross overs. Everyone is AT a personal level.
- Place Value: ones' / units' house: hundreds, tens, ones
- digit (A single number ( 0 to 9 ) that then we can use to make show the value of based on where it is in the digit is in a number.)
- one-digit number , 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, , or 9
- two-digit numbers - SOME examples of because there are many: 10, 11, 12, 13, 24, 26, 30, 46, 57, 61, 72, 84, ... 99
- three-digit numbers - SOME examples: 100, 101, 102, 256, 321, 457, ...999
- four-digit numbers - SOME examples: 1000, 1001, 1002, 3567, ... 9999
- value (worth) - If the number is 349 , the value of the digit "3" is 300, the value of the digit "4" is 40, the value of the digit "9" is 9
- On the land
- sit spot
- skipping
- snack math - estimating:
- data
- mode
- range
- median
- Recess Rule! project:
- equipment
- rules or how to use
- state in the "positive" - Do not push - Keep hands to yourself
- order
- draft slides
September 5 - September 8
- Welcome Back Assembly (Including minute to win it fun! )
- Listening to. picture book
- Add = SUM
- Addng Vertically - keep digits LINED UP based on PLACE VALUE (Draw a place value grid to help)
- Recess Rules! (team work)
- expanded form (72 = 70 + 2, 764 = 700 + 60 + 4 )
- place value houses (periods) - three sections in each. For example ones/tens/hundreds are in the ones/units house.
- reading - picking a word - expressing it in a special way out loud
- music partner sonegs/rhymes
- spelling, vowels, syllables
- using a personal spelling dictionary
- add "ly" to a word - usually, simply add "ly" to the base/root word ( usual / usually, light / lightly, total / totally )
- Stewards
- Library Time
- The Book Hog - picture book read
- Signing out library books
- Drawing - draw what you see, not what you think you see
- Blind contour drawing
- 4-square - skills really developing
- Nimbus clouds - dark rain clouds (the contain a large amount of water droplets)
- Daily writing - strategy of finding a key word in the last sentence to help you come up with a next idea
- leaf
- Where is the math with a Smartie Box?
- Place Value
- Base Ten: groups of ten / to get to the next place you x by 10
- ones
- tens
- mental math (trying tens then ones - opposite to how we do it when we write)
- 4 + 5 = 9
- 40 + 50 = 90 (Why is there the 0?)
- 62 + 23 = 80 + 5 = 85
- standard form ( 3 )
- roman numeral ( III )
- word form ( three )
- music
September 1
- vowels: a, e, i, o, u, and sometimes y
- vowel sound
- syllables - each one contains a vowel SOUND
- How many syllables/vowel sounds: clap, tap, or jowl
- breaking words into syllables can often help us spell the words
- consonants: b, c, d, f, g, h, j, k, l, m, n, p, q, r, s, t, v, w, x, y, z
- coming up with ideas from a prompt - taking what we know and supporting other students
- Mental Math 2, II, two - working on this routine using one digit equations
- Math puzzle:
- involving equations with unknowns using a defined set of numbers, in this case (1, 2, 3).
- 4 square
- Community Building - Recess Rules OR Recess Rules! A beginning brainstorm leading to our class developing a presentation on rules or ways to use the equipment, structures, and areas of the playground.
August 31
- Daily Writing - prompt - ?
- Math Journal - prompt
- Basic Addition Facts - warm up
- Mental Math - routine - today was a practice method
- Fire Drill practice
- Stop, Drop, Roll
- Physical Education - two-square
- Acquaintances - new and old
- Name Game Circle
- Snack Math - today's connection was with division - we ended up looking at how we could come up with a denominator for a lunch snack kit's compartments. We were reminded that the denominator is for how many EQUAL parts it is divided into, or could be divided into. In this case, there were three sections, but to come up with a fraction we needed to divide the larger section into two and then each section would be the same size so the denominator could end up being 4 . Altogether the lunch kit was 1/2 + 1/4 + 1/4 . We also saw how a dividing sign was like a fraction with a numerator dot and a denominator dot. 6 / 2 is the same as 6 divided by 2. After drawing pictures to provide a visual meaning to this, it led to talking about if Ms. Smart could really eat 3 pizzas... at first it seemed an absolute no, but then, "Could she?" - some then added yes depending on the size (could eat 3 mini snack lunchable pizzas, or someone added it could depend on how long the time was (because we didn't say she could eat three at once, but maybe over the summer time in total...) - Super thinking! (All this and more just from our snack time - think of all the math you could find at dinner.)
scale on a map
1 cm equals a certain number of kilometers
distance from Calgary to Edmonton (measuring on a map using the scale)
effort arm longer, easier to lift load
Quest: How does the length of the effort arm make a difference to lifting a load?
Data: Chart/table we filled in
Observations:
Findings: Answer to the question
FLE
123
first class lever (teeter totter, lifting a rock out of ground lever pole, scissors)
second class lever (wheelbarrow)
third class lever (broom, hockey stick)
Continuing to read analog clocks:
- nearest hour
- nearest 5 minutes
- nearest 30 minutes (half hour)
- time past / after (half past two)
- time to (ten minutes to nine)
-elapsed time (how much time has gone by)
birthdays
music
library
Veterans Food Bank Announcements
lever
fulcrum
effort arm
load arm
lifting a large rock with a lever
everyday things such as a fork
expanded form
5432 = 5000 + 400 + 30 + 2
expanded form with place value
5432 = (5 x 1000) + (4 x 100) + (3 x 10) + (2 x 1)
subtraction
vertical form
addition check
province
Alberta
1905
mountains - natural border
man made borders
city
Calgary
country
Canada
continent
North America
community / neighbourhood
University Heights
common noun
Proper noun
attribute - characteristic
range
time - 5 minute intervals, carefully watching when the hour hand is close, but not at the next hour.
word work
nouns
common noun (city, school, girl)
Proper noun (Calgary, University, Matilda)
Science - Findings: and then Making Connections / Further Questions:
November 6 - November 17th
Veterans Food Bank Boxes - ready to be filled
Group / Team work
Listening to and saying (not writing) sounds, syllables
Simple Machines Challenge:
How to get Baymax from one end of the table to the other using three different simple machines.
Rounding to the nearest ten - review for some
Saying number to the millions - review for some
conserve - save
perishable vs. non-perishable
simple machines - preview:
lever
wheel and axle
wedge
inclined plane
screw
pulley
spring scale (weight) - grams
machine - makes work easier
expanded form - review
expanded form using place value - review and new learning for some
time - continuing
Remembrance Day Assembly
Ms. Robins - training uniform, her husbands air force uniform
canteen
gas mask
first aid kit
veterans
Veterans Food Bank
Food and other groups working as steward to lead our upcoming Veterans Food Bank Drive.
Daylight Saving Time
Analog clock
small hand - hour hand
long hand - minute hand
o'clock
4:00 (four o'clock)
telling time
poppy
100 years
scale
weigh
weight
observing changes
measuring differences
book fair
basketball
warm up
dribble
pivot
take away
octopus
chest pass
bounce pass
three person weave
cookie jar
aim
shoot
pumpkin remains observing further
moisture evaporating
moisture squeezing out
dehydrating
October 30 - November 3
Waste and Our World
pumpkin observations
- freezing, changing its structure, connections to our ground freezing and melting, waiting to see what is now going to happen, comparing to pumpkins molding that haven't been frozen, ...
subtraction, including addition check (two to five-digit numbers)
problem solving - focussing on the steps and doing word problems
pumpkin
starting our responses - beginning/introduction sentences were strong and could lead to next sentences in writing
Music - three ways to do percussion: rub, shake, hit/tap
closed syllable (consonant after vowel, closes the syllable and makes the vowel short). For example: at, cat, bath, bas...
bas ket (basket) A 2 syllable word made up of two closed syllables.
jowl vowel
vowel sound = syllable
word work - do a pretest and practise in coil book
orange duotang - spelling tests, new word lists, tasks
rations
rationing Halloween Candy
ratio (2 candies each day). ( 2 candies : 1 day )
rate - eating at the speed of 2 candies per day (2 candies a day)
Math Problem Solving:
1. read, read, read
2. highlight key words / pieces of information
3. Quest: (What is the question we are trying to discover the answer to?)
4. Data/Clues: (LISTING the pieces of information/clues that you will use to get the answer.
5. D.M.U.: Showing how you work to get and answer (calculations, drawings, charts, tables,...)
6. Findings: In a complete meaningful sentence, stating the answer to the quest. (Part of the quest wording will be in the Findings' sentence.)
October 16 - 27
assembly
grateful
thankful
appreciate
5 Minutes
student picture book read aloud
text to self (connections)
double beam balance
grams - going up by ones
grams - going up by tens
see - saw or teeter totter (similar to a this balance scale)
balancing a weight to figure out a weight
How much did the blueberry yogurt weigh ? [Total weight - weight of the container ]
Friday Quiz
Spelling Test
Problem Solving:
Read, read, read
Highlight key words
Quest: (What is the question you are trying to find the answer to?)
subtraction
subtraction check ( addition ) - do each time
Library - Hallo-weiner ( picture )
North America - continent (Canada is on this continent)
snow
snowfall
snowflakes
atmosphere
vapour
temperature
cold
condense on particles in sky
hexagonal crystals
Why does it snow in Fall?
Earth tilt
Earth revolves around sun
Where we are in relation to the equator
How high (elevation)
proofreading our daily writing
creating a critical thinking question from our own writing and then developing it to become deeper (asking something that one could research or investigate to really answer and understand.
grids (review)
graphs
plotting points on a graph
x axis
y axis
ordered pairs
(x,y)
coordinates
O Canada
Questions we have connected to that
Basketball: warm up, dribbling, stop and pivoting
Thriller - movement piece
Pond Measurement Referents
cm (baby finger)
mm (10 mm in a cm)
0.1 = 1 mm
4.7 cm = 4 whole cm + 0.7 of a cm
tape measure - 1 meter = 100 cm
trundle wheel - measuring meters
measuring our hallway and route around the school
Library time - story - character Little Boo
Basketball - warm up drills, dribbling practice, keep away
Math - place value - yahtzee
Writing - critical thinking question
Pond Walk ( - 2 degrees Celsius )
leaf pressing
Mental Math strategy - using place value in our heads to add larger numbers quickly.
For example:
457 + 328
(400 + 300 ) = 700
then
( 700 + 70 ) = 770
then
( 770 + 15 ) = 785
It takes time and practise; it is not easy
music - first day learning about recorders (Today's note to learn and practise is B )
basketball has begun - warm up/ skills practice: taught/reviewed
Pond Walk - North, West, South, East
+1 degrees Celsius
dropped to -2 degrees Celsius
word work - spelling
proofreading review
October 10 - 13
Calculator - Place and Value Game
Rounding
Inky Math Puzzle
Proofreading for sentence end (red), sentence beginning capital (green), cross of conjunction if it is at the beginning of a sentence (brown), underline possible misspellings (orange)
Picture Prompt
Prefix - A small piece that goes in front of a word. It changes the meaning.
Example:
pretest - a test that is not the real one that you have before the real one.
pre = before
prewash - a washing before you wear the clothing
re = again
renew - take out the book new again
redo - do something AGAIN
Salute! - math fact for a team of 3 (currently doing Addition Salute!)
Google Classroom - flashcards
Rounding to the nearest 10, 100, and for some (1000, 10 000, 100 000)
Skipping the basic facts
recorders
whole note
dotted half note
half note
quarter note
4 count/ta
3 count/ta
2 count/ta
1 count/ta
Hey Bob, "Is this a sentence?"
Proofreading for complete sentences.
Rounding to the nearest hundred
Creating, editing playground rules slide show presentations
October 2 - October 6
Terry Fox Run - run 1 minute, walk 2 minutes, ...
Assembly
spelling test
Friday quiz
Splat!
Rounding to the nearest ten
Number line mountain peaks 0 to 10 with the peak at 5, then 10 to 20 and the peak would be 15 and so the pattern goes.
Review of estimating - data, range, mode, median
paragraphing - indent - one topical idea
Synonyms - words that mean sort of the same - For example hard / difficult / challenging (Each of those words kind of means the same thing.)
Print making
Adding - finding the sum - review and test questions
Music - syllables - 4 syllable responses to what you are grateful for
Writing - reasons for why you made the colour choice that you did - your "rationale" for why you chose the pencil crayon colours that you did to do your leaf rubbing.
Salute (One person gives the sum while the other two try and figure out their card.)
Medium - coloured pencil crayon
long rope
Home strength and conditioning - practice
September 25 - September 28
- States of matter: gas, liquid, solid (water vapour, water liquid, ice )
- How does a thermometer work? - molecules moving and spreading out with heat, and coming together when cooler. Making a type of homemade thermometer.
- Question from yesterday's question (thinking about a next idea) - Who invented the thermometer; or how did someone come up with the idea of a thermometer?
- Leaf Observation:
What do you see - be specific and clear (colour including creating a colour swatch, length, width, margin (edge of leaf), shape
What do you feel / texture (front of and back of)
What do you smell?
Science-Art - Leaf Rubbing (Medium - writing pencil ) - on white photocopy paper. Shading technique with edge of pencil.
- art reflection on the sketch of the twig:
What I would want you to notice, and why. Explain
What I did well, with an explanation
What was challenging/hard/difficult for me doing this art sketch (explain)
What would I do next time; explain
- add / sum / +
- using dice and working at own personal level for now (one-digit, two-digit, three-digit ...)
- double dutch - some are now able to turn the rop
- raining leaves
- thermometer
- temperature in degrees Celsius
- "yellow" leaf??!! - no - what kind of yellow? mustard yellow, banana yellow, maple sugar browned yellow...
- art
- sketch
- twig
- blind contour
- modified blind contour
- drawing from out to in
- drawing from in to out
- final draft
- artist's workshop and tone
- Fall / Autumn Rainbow
- daily writing
- photo day
September 18 - September 21
- Fall equinox
- Autumnal equinox
- 12 months in a year
- Each season is 1/4 of a year
- 1/4's on a number line
- 1/4's shown as sections in a circle
- Balance - equinox - equal =
- 12 hours daylight = 12 hours night light
- Colour coding the seasons (orange, blue, green, yellow)
- Library
- puddling
- Field trip - reflection
- Skipping - warm up then long jump focus
- Teddy Bear, teddy bear turn around, Teddy Bear, teddy bear, touch the ground, Teddy bear, teddy bear reach the sky, Teddy bear, teddy bear say good-bye
- Teaching / Coaching the grade 3's skipping
- Music - beats, rhythm
- bison
- valley
- foothills
- bow river
- filtering water
- fescue grass
- artifacts
- ecofacts
- archaeology
- archaeology dig
- train
- flatbed cars
- c-cans
- quarry
- sandstone
- Standard Form 456
- Expanded Form 400 + 50 + 6
- Expanded Form Using Place Value (4 x 100) + (5 x 10) + (6 x 1)
- 7 Continents: North America, South America, Africa, Europe, Asia, Australia, Antarctica
- Compass Rose with North, East, South, West and North-East, South-East, South-West, North-West
- Long Rope: you need three on each team (Each member of the team is critical - two turning the rope and one skipping)
- Jump when the rope hits the ground
- Recess Rules! - Panel of guests to help us revise our first drafts
September 11 - September 15
- EV EN numbers end with 0, 2, 4, 6, 8
For example, these are even numbers 58, 318, 114, 506, 3570
- team work
- skipping personal goals:
forward / front
backwards / back
cross overs
turning a long rope
skipping a long rope
jumping into a long rope
- finishing off taking photos and looking at yesterday's photos
- photographer
- director
- actors
- how to hold the camera
- thousands house for place value - using it to read a number.
- music - patterns and switching - increasing temp
- Above the Land - writing prompt
- Playground Rules - Recess Rules!
(Safe play rules for playground equipment, photographer, director, actors)
- Leaf Man - picture read to class today - author creates illustrations using things/parts of things she has found
- Library - choosing a just-right book and reading
- units/ones house
- thousands house
- standard and expanded form
- greater than and less than signs - look for the large opening for the large ball or large number
- (for some, expanded form using place value)
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- Under the Land
- Prepositions: We DID NOT dictionary define it. We talked about what a preposition is and looked at examples of prepositions and showed them in action with a felt marker. a PrePOSITION can show the POSITION - and be where a PREPpy rabbit can go - to, under, beside, through, above, at, on, in...
- Dictionary Definition - A preposition is a word used before a noun, pronoun, or noun phrase to show direciton, time, place, location, or spatial relationships.
- Reading - punctuation makes a difference (. ? ! ) - We imagined a different picture for "In the bag are Jim's snacks." " In the bag are Jim's snacks?" "In the bag are Jim's snacks!"
- Skipping - always working on personal goal - not what others are doing; step by step following the progression as one is ready: rope over head, jump once over rope, jumps twice in a row, three times, as many as possible, remembering to stand up and also to be able to put a bounce in after the jump, then backwards, then cross overs. Everyone is AT a personal level.
- Place Value: ones' / units' house: hundreds, tens, ones
- digit (A single number ( 0 to 9 ) that then we can use to make show the value of based on where it is in the digit is in a number.)
- one-digit number , 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, , or 9
- two-digit numbers - SOME examples of because there are many: 10, 11, 12, 13, 24, 26, 30, 46, 57, 61, 72, 84, ... 99
- three-digit numbers - SOME examples: 100, 101, 102, 256, 321, 457, ...999
- four-digit numbers - SOME examples: 1000, 1001, 1002, 3567, ... 9999
- value (worth) - If the number is 349 , the value of the digit "3" is 300, the value of the digit "4" is 40, the value of the digit "9" is 9
- On the land
- sit spot
- skipping
- snack math - estimating:
- data
- mode
- range
- median
- Recess Rule! project:
- equipment
- rules or how to use
- state in the "positive" - Do not push - Keep hands to yourself
- order
- draft slides
September 5 - September 8
- Welcome Back Assembly (Including minute to win it fun! )
- Listening to. picture book
- Add = SUM
- Addng Vertically - keep digits LINED UP based on PLACE VALUE (Draw a place value grid to help)
- Recess Rules! (team work)
- expanded form (72 = 70 + 2, 764 = 700 + 60 + 4 )
- place value houses (periods) - three sections in each. For example ones/tens/hundreds are in the ones/units house.
- reading - picking a word - expressing it in a special way out loud
- music partner sonegs/rhymes
- spelling, vowels, syllables
- using a personal spelling dictionary
- add "ly" to a word - usually, simply add "ly" to the base/root word ( usual / usually, light / lightly, total / totally )
- Stewards
- Library Time
- The Book Hog - picture book read
- Signing out library books
- Drawing - draw what you see, not what you think you see
- Blind contour drawing
- 4-square - skills really developing
- Nimbus clouds - dark rain clouds (the contain a large amount of water droplets)
- Daily writing - strategy of finding a key word in the last sentence to help you come up with a next idea
- leaf
- Where is the math with a Smartie Box?
- Place Value
- Base Ten: groups of ten / to get to the next place you x by 10
- ones
- tens
- mental math (trying tens then ones - opposite to how we do it when we write)
- 4 + 5 = 9
- 40 + 50 = 90 (Why is there the 0?)
- 62 + 23 = 80 + 5 = 85
- standard form ( 3 )
- roman numeral ( III )
- word form ( three )
- music
September 1
- vowels: a, e, i, o, u, and sometimes y
- vowel sound
- syllables - each one contains a vowel SOUND
- How many syllables/vowel sounds: clap, tap, or jowl
- breaking words into syllables can often help us spell the words
- consonants: b, c, d, f, g, h, j, k, l, m, n, p, q, r, s, t, v, w, x, y, z
- coming up with ideas from a prompt - taking what we know and supporting other students
- Mental Math 2, II, two - working on this routine using one digit equations
- Math puzzle:
- involving equations with unknowns using a defined set of numbers, in this case (1, 2, 3).
- 4 square
- Community Building - Recess Rules OR Recess Rules! A beginning brainstorm leading to our class developing a presentation on rules or ways to use the equipment, structures, and areas of the playground.
August 31
- Daily Writing - prompt - ?
- Math Journal - prompt
- Basic Addition Facts - warm up
- Mental Math - routine - today was a practice method
- Fire Drill practice
- Stop, Drop, Roll
- Physical Education - two-square
- Acquaintances - new and old
- Name Game Circle
- Snack Math - today's connection was with division - we ended up looking at how we could come up with a denominator for a lunch snack kit's compartments. We were reminded that the denominator is for how many EQUAL parts it is divided into, or could be divided into. In this case, there were three sections, but to come up with a fraction we needed to divide the larger section into two and then each section would be the same size so the denominator could end up being 4 . Altogether the lunch kit was 1/2 + 1/4 + 1/4 . We also saw how a dividing sign was like a fraction with a numerator dot and a denominator dot. 6 / 2 is the same as 6 divided by 2. After drawing pictures to provide a visual meaning to this, it led to talking about if Ms. Smart could really eat 3 pizzas... at first it seemed an absolute no, but then, "Could she?" - some then added yes depending on the size (could eat 3 mini snack lunchable pizzas, or someone added it could depend on how long the time was (because we didn't say she could eat three at once, but maybe over the summer time in total...) - Super thinking! (All this and more just from our snack time - think of all the math you could find at dinner.)