June 13 - 17th

Wow! June is flying by! We were very fortunate to have an educator from gogreen and CPAWs visit us on Monday for an in school field trip.  We learned about citizen science and how we can make scientific observations in the nature world and submit these to assist the work of professional scientists. Our program also centered on birds in our community of Calgary/Alberta and how we can strengthen our scientific literacy and observation skills and lead to an increase in environmental stewardship. 

We also were able to rent their kit (as well as one from the City of Calgary Parks and Rec) for the week and explore the different activities, artifacts and lessons that they had put together both inside and outside. The kits allowed us to get a first hand look at different animals and birds that call our community home and allowed us to work to deepen our observation and documentation skills. While out on our walks this week, students were more mindful of this deepened scientific literacy and were more observant of the creatures we encountered out in the neighborhood. 

Here are some photos of our adventures:

This week, my math group continued to review and build on our knowledge of 2D and 3D shapes - focussing on the vocabulary - edges, vertices, slide, turn, flip, faces. We enjoyed applying our knowledge to play games with partners to see if we could identify the shapes based on clues, to create shapes on geoboards based on clues and we created tessellations by putting shapes together. We also reviewed math word problems and explored how to write our own word problems.

 

Math with Ms. Yasin this week was full of subtracting and exploring subtraction with regrouping (also called borrowing)! Students learned that we need to regroup in subtraction when there are not enough "ones" in the first number to subtract the second number from. In that case, we borrow a ten from the first number and give it to the ones in the first number. Base 10 blocks were very helpful in visualizing this concept. 

The group was excited to explore the algorithm strategy for regrouping as well. Now they have a few strategies to choose from in order to subtract double digit numbers with regrouping!