Good afternoon families!
Here is a recap of our past two days:
In math we continued to explore patterns and were challenged by increasing patterns that increase in ways that are not so straight forward, such as skip counting by the same number. We will continue to work with this topic next week. We wrote a mad minute today but due to our new gym time on Friday (we are in gym for the last 30 minutes) we did not get these as well as the math quizzes handed back to all students. These will come home on Monday.
Social Studies: We discussed the creation of the Canadian flag and how various symbols were considered prior to the final decision being made. We looked at the many symbols of Canadian Identity that come to mind to us as Calgarians, and then discussed how these may differ for Canadians who are originally from the East Coast or the West Coast. We continued our discussion of peacekeeping and how our role as peacekeepers has changed since it began.
Language Arts: Story writing continues! Students are currently being challenged to thoughtfully plan a TWO-PAGE story according to organizers that we have provided them. The limitation on story length has been designed intentionally to help students focus in on what actions and events in their story are absolutely critical toward the development of their plot. Students at this age often have a difficult time discerning between information that is useful toward the plot versus information that is extra and does not need to be included (even as detail to develop parts of the story).
Reminders:
-Aggie Days permission forms due next week
-Fun Lunch on the 10th
Have a great weekend!
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