Greetings Room 5 students and parents! I hope you have enjoyed a wonderful weekend that featured some beautiful weather to get outside and spend time outdoors!
In Writing, we spent time this week looking at adding greater details to our body in our climbing stories. Looking at a problem and then thinking of creative ways to solve the problems and adding descriptive details while doing so.
In Mathematics, the students have focused on fraction and looking at the various parts of a fraction - the numerator and denominator and what each means in reading a fraction. The student also worked on reviewing addition, subtraction, number lines and ordering of numbers from least to greatest.
In Social Studies, we spent time researching each country and making notes on the pros and cons of living in each country based on various factors. Each country has good points and next week the students will be sharing their opinions based on what they found out about each country and pick which one they would ultimately choose to live in.
In Science, we continue to explore building and design and discussing how to keep a structure strong and upright. We looked at the work of engineers and how they are able to take a problem and design possible solutions that keep structures safe places that can withstand the natural elements that work against the structure.
****We currently have two upcoming field trips scheduled in a few weeks in May time. The first field trip is Tuesday, May 17th to the Calgary Zoo. The next day, we have our Downtown Bridge Walk on Wednesday, May 18th. Unfortunately because of bussing availability, these were the only days we can schedule for these field trips. I need parent volunteers' help in order to make these trips happen...I need to have 5 parent volunteers for each day and if we don't get the volunteers in place, we won't be able to do the trips! So please, if you can volunteer for both trips that would be amazing. Please email me at adhakes@cbe.ab.ca to let me know you can help... Thank you very much!***
Enjoy the rest of your Sunday and see all of you tomorrow morning!