Week of October 21st

Last week we were busy getting back into the swing of things after fall break. We wrapped up our Science unit of Light and Shadow with a test (ask your student how they did). Starting this week we have Mr. Barker for Science and he is teaching us all about Classroom Chemistry.
Check out this awesome Romero Britto inspired pumpkin art we started, we aren't quite finished, but they look great so far.

 

 

Ralph Klein Park

Our field trip to the Wetlands this week was incredible!! It was a little chilly but with everyone bundled up and the sun out we had a wonderful time!

We did a guided nature walk where we were able to spy many wildlife footprints, scat and other evidence of wildlife. Then we had the opportunity to conduct a pond dip to find invertebrates that are able to survive in our wetland giving us an idea of how healthy our water is.

Ask us about what we were able to find!

Changing shadows

Over the past few weeks the students have been busy at work studying Light and Shadows. We have explored sources of light, translucent, transparent and opaque materials and using flashlights we explored the shadows opaque materials cast. This week we got the opportunity to head outside in the beautiful sunshine (despite all the snow) and explore our own changing shadows as the sun moved in the sky.
On Friday we created some beautiful tin foil sculptures, check out their shadows!

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Field Trip Rescheduled

Hello Parents and Guardians of Room 18,

Due to inclement weather and poor road conditions we made a decision this morning to cancel the field trip today. We were however, able to reschedule the field trip and it will now take place next week, Thursday, October 10^th.

This is a fun lunch day so if you are ordering your child pizza, it will be kept at school and distributed at the end of the day before they go home, so please ensure they have a snack and lunch for the day.

The students will all still need to be dressed for the weather in warm layers and with appropriate footwear. They must bring water as the water at Ralph Klein Park is not drinkable.

Thank you for your support and understanding,

Mrs. Gartner

T.W.A.S.
Week of Sept 3rd

• "We had our first Family Friday this week." N.C.
• "We are going to change up how we do gym" B.T
• "We learned about speaking positively to ourselves so that we can work hard and do our best" W.T
• "In P.E. the grade 5s played camouflage, it is our favourite game" J.F.
• "On Friday we got to play Prodigy on the iPads, it is a math game" C.J.
• "The Moose group got to play parachute games and squirrel tag during Family Friday" L.C. and M.S
• "In our novel The City of Ember one of the main characters Doon is feeling discouraged about his new job" B.O and C.F.
• "We watched a video about team work and how important it is. In our turtle group we did a scavenger hunt in the school." N.B.
• "Go check out Raz-kids at home, we are all signed up for it." S.A.
• "This week we watched a Bill Nye video about light, we learned about the difference between concave and convex lenses, ask me about it" K.S.
• "We learned about nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs, I can tell you what they are!" Z.L.
• "Mindful mouthfuls is something we are going to do during lunch times, it is 10 minutes of quiet eating" B.T. 

T.W.A.S (this week at school)
Week of August 19th, 2019

• "This week in our classroom we worked on our bookmarks using watercolours" B.T
• "We started our math groups this week" K.T.
• "We had a lockdown practice" N.C.
• "We started reading The City of Ember for our novel study" M.H.
• "This week we had our library orientation and we can now sign out books" K.S.
• "In Science we started learning about Light and Shadows" Z.L.
• " In writing we used pictures to create a story" W.T.
• "This week we had music twice" L.C.
• "We watched a video on how wolves being reintroduced to the area changed Yellowstone National Park" B.A.
• "Patrol practice was this week at lunch" D.M.
• "We started Social Studies, we are learning about mapping" M.R.

Sincerely, students in Room 18

Welcome Back

Hello student and parents of Room 18,

Welcome to our 2019-2020 school year, we are very excited to see you back. We have many wonderful learning experiences planned for this year and look forward to sharing them with our students. Please continue to check back on our blog to see some sneak peaks into our classroom and school to see some of the things we are up to. Here on the blog we will also have important dates coming up and any other pertinent reminders.