June 10th, 2022

 Hello families, 

This week in writing we were busy sharing our completed fictional stories, and then having some fun by developing superheroes. We discussed how superheroes need origin stories and reasons why they have their powers and what their mission is. We also dove deeper on our superheroes by including what would be in their fridge, or what their favourite karaoke song would be. It was awesome to see the collaboration between students as they shared ideas about their original superheroes while they practiced character development. We then took our superheroes and began writing an original comic book for them. 

Notes:

-Our last field trip of the year is scheduled for June 22nd at the Inglewood Bird Sanctuary. If you are interested in volunteering please email Mr. Jackson at: dajackson@cbe.ab.ca 

Students in Ms. Yasin's math class worked on estimating this week! They used their previously learned friendly numbers to estimate "to the nearest 10". In estimation, we call these multiples of 10 "benchmarks". The group learned about the "midpoint" of each set of 10 numbers - for example, the midpoint between 20 and 30 is 25.  Any number that is at the midpoint or higher will round up to the multiple of 10 that comes directly after it. Any number that is lower than the midpoint will round down to the multiple of 10 right before. For example 27 will round to 30 while 22 will round to 20. 

Students had the opportunity to apply their estimation skills to addition and subtraction questions where we did not need to know exact answers!