Week 10 Update
ECOSCHOOL UPDATE: The cost of ECOSchool is $278.25 per student. This
amount can be paid through your child’s school fees online or in the office.
Please contact Mrs. Kawohl at likawohl@cbe.ab.ca with any
questions or concerns =)
Important Dates:
-
Remembrance Day Assembly is tomorrow at 10:45
in the Cambrian Heights Gymnasium. All family is welcome to join us.
- NO SCHOOL MONDAY NOVEMBER 11 IN HONOR OF REMEMBRANCE DAY!
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Grade 5/6 Assembly on Wednesday December 4 at
9:00 am. We will be showcasing the learning we have done so far, this year!
Science:
Starting this week, in Mrs. Kawohl’s Base
Camp, we have a Teacher Candidate from Mount Royal University who will be with
us daily until Friday December 6th, 2019. Her name is Shenaé
Richards. Ms. Richards is in her third year of the education program. She is
excited to be with us and teach us educational activities that can be used in
the classroom to consolidate our learning. We have been using exit slips and a
learning target visual to demonstrate our understanding of learning intentions
at the end of each lesson.
Last week, students finished up their multi-media
presentations on the Wetlands. They engaged in a self-reflection task about the
overall process of researching, extracting information, consolidating
information and collaborating with peers to demonstrate their understanding of
why the wetlands are so important to our ecosystem.
In Science this week, we began looking at
different types of weather phenomenon. Students were challenged to extract
research information to support the 5 W’s (i.e. why does this phenomenon
happen? Who does it impact? How does it impact people and our environment?
Where does the phenomenon occur? When does the phenomenon occur?) as well as
how dangerous the phenomenon is. Students created Google Slides presentations,
became experts on the phenomenon they were given (i.e. thunderstorms,
hurricanes, meteors, tornadoes and hailstorms) and shared their weather
phenomenon with their peers.
In Math this week, we worked on ordering,
comparing, visualizing and adding decimals as a class. We were introduced to
fun games, manipulatives and videos to help us understand decimals. We also
used number lines and grids to help us visualize ways to represent decimals. We
are excited and cannot wait to start turning fractions into decimals and vice versa.
Stay tuned!
In Humanities this week, we started a new
region on our Amazing Race Canada journey called the Atlantic region. We have
dived deeply into the issue of overfishing of cod fish and how it is impacting
the way of life for people in the Maritimes. Students will be using the format
of a newspaper article to share their learning about the Atlantic region. We
have brainstormed the 5 W’s for our articles as a class.
Now, we are working on gathering relevant information
and interesting facts to support our development of the body of an article.
Students have started writing their opener of the article and providing
feedback to their peers. We are also brainstorming titles and opening sentences
to put in our newspaper article.
Students also worked on building up their
reading stamina this week. Through large group discussions, we came up with
some expectations for what read to self should look and sound like.
Remembrance Day Activities
In Art this week, we are showing our appreciation
for the soldiers who continue to fight for Canadians, and those who passed away
during the war. Remembrance Day is very important to each and every one of us. To
show our appreciation, we created a Mosaic using tissue paper and a poppy
template. Each poppy is going to be represented on a classroom created wreath tomorrow
at our Remembrance Day Assembly. During literacy, we read the book “A Poppy is to Remember” by Heather
Patterson and we wrote about what freedom and peace means to us.
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