Hello Room 5 students and parents! Last week was a very short week for us with only three days of school! I want to thank the students for their hard work during this time and also a big thank you to the grade 2 classes for creating a very moving Remembrance Day virtual assembly that was shared with all the school on Wednesday. It makes us realized how lucky we are to live in a country that respects diversity and has created many rights and freedoms that we get each and every day here in Canada.
In Mathematics, we have started to look at 3D objects and we had a scavenger hunt in the classroom as students had to identify a variety of 3D objects such as spheres, cubes, rectangular prisms, cones and cylinders. The students found many rectangular prisms, but we struggled to find many spheres (though we did find some tennis balls on the bottom of our chair legs!).
In Science, we were finishing off our animal riddles where the students had to provide clues as to what type of animal it was and then draw a thumb print picture on the page below so the other students could guess their animals. Next week we are taking part in another virtual field trip to the Bow River Fish Hatchery to learn about the adaptations that rainbow trout have made to survive in and around Alberta.
In Writing, we focused on sharing our ideas of What Peace Means to Me to coincide with Remembrance Day this Thursday. We brainstormed the many ways that our quality of life has been effected by those brave soldiers who fought for the rights and freedoms we currently enjoy in Canada and what that means for peace in our present time.
In Social Studies, we looked at the landforms of Ukraine, it position in the world and what resources they are able to use to produce various types of products that are either used by people in the country or exported to other countries to use. We also spent some time focused on hearing the activities that went on in a number of our students' households in order to celebrate the Indian celebration of Diwali.
Next week, we will be having a Hip Hop dance residency in place for our Physical Education classes and it is important that students have proper gym shoes that they can use as we have moved inside for our PE classes. Also a reminder to wear formal uniforms on Monday and that homework is due this Friday for the homework #9. Thank you and have a wonderful Sunday!