Home Journals
Please read your child's home journal, comment or write them back if you can, and return to school.
Our Arctic Stories
We have also been using our knowledge of Arctic stories to write our own stories inspired by the Arctic stories that we have studied. Students have been brainstorming, characters and setting features for their stories. Ask your child what a protagonist and antagonist are.
This week we read the story Baseball Bats For Christmas by Michael Kusugak.
As well we watched the short film Tuurngait which you can watch here:
Inquiry
We had a busy week in Inquiry. We had a visit from and Environmental Scientist who works in the Arctic monitoring past and present oil drilling sites.
We also learned about Arctic architecture and Arctic animals.
We are starting to think about the problems hat the Arctic might face in the future, such as the Permafrost melting or the Sea Ice melting.
Environmental Scientist
Arctic Architecture
Arctic Animals
We looked at each of the animals mentioned on the slide and we also watched some short nature videos that you can see here:
Math
Subtraction
We have started to learn about how addition and subtraction are related and how being experts at addition can help us to develop our understanding of subtraction.
Fact Families
Students started to work on fact families for a variety of numbers. the numbers 7, 5, and 12 can be arranged into four corresponding equations.
7 + 5 = 12
5 + 7 = 12
12 - 7 = 5
12 - 5 = 7
Dentist
We also had a visit from the dentist and team from Shine Orthodontics. Students learned how to brush and floss effectively and had the opportunity to participate in many oral hygiene activities, such as brushing pop off of a soaked egg.
Maker Materials!
Hello families,
We are about to begin the design process of our Environmental Scientist inquiry. We need many craft and maker materials:
- cardboard
- string
- masking tape
- saran wrap
- styrofoam
- egg cartons
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