Hello Families, 

This week we combined our Science and art as we discussed magnetism. We learned how the Earth has its own magnetic field and that this combined with energy from the Sun creates Aurora Borealis and Aurora Australis. Students demonstrated through experiments this week that they:

-Understood that magnets attract different metals and not other objects.

-Different magnets have more or less magnetism than others. 

-Magnets have a North and a South pole. 

Next, we created our own Aurora borealis landscapes using tempera paint and chalk pastels. 

We were pretty impressed with our art work when it was all said and done!

With Ms. Yasin this week in our literacy groups, we talked about clarifying our understanding while reading. We worked on our comprehension by first understanding any tricky words we came across! We explored dictionaries, what they are used for and how to use them. We are quickly learning how to use consecutive letters in a word and the order of the alphabet to find our tricky words in the dictionary. We have learned so many new words this week! One group learned what “rambunctious” meant, while another group had fun finding words like “velocity” and “sphinx” in the dictionary. 

With Ms. Yasin this week in math, we started by sorting 2D shapes from the environment into groups based on their sides, side lengths and vertices. 

We then continued to focus on mental math strategies by learning how to use doubles facts and doubles + 1 to quickly solve a math equation. We had fun playing the doubles + 1 game with a partner! We finished off the week learning a new mental math strategy using friendly numbers! The number 10 (and all its multiples) is our best friend! 

In music we watched a performance called Napi and the Rock put on by the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra.  Some of the students were away when we watched it and others would like to watch it again. I told the students I would send along the link to the CPO so they could watch if they wanted to.  It. is a 30 minute program and is quite enjoyable to watch. 

https://calgaryphil.com/events/napi-and-the-rock/