Week in Review Week 9 (October 28-31) "Toys!"

Hi Everyone,

Science

A big focus of this week in Science was our building of our toys that utilize magnets. This is our conclusion project to our magnet unit. In groups of three, students have been tasked to design and create toys where magnets are a prominent aspect. There have been many great ideas such as puzzles, fishing games and even robots. All groups had to start with a blueprint of what they wanted to build. They needed to ensure that the blueprint showed a picture of their toy as well as have detailed labels outlining what materials they would need. Following this, they began to build their designs. We are in the finishing stages of construction and the toys are looking amazing! Next week we will have the opportunity to present our toys to the class as well as write and play with them!

Social Studies

In social studies this week, we have continued with our photo project that Ms. Hinder started with us last week. We have been learning about what adjectives and verbs are. Adjectives are describing words that give our sentences more detail, while verbs are action words. We are using this knowledge to brainstorm adjectives and verbs for the different groups of pictures we took. We have come up with some very descriptive words to describe aspects of nature such as "delicate, curious, breezing, flowing and peaceful. Next week, we are going to use these adjectives and verbs in our writing!

Math

Place value, place value, place value!!! We have continued with our practice and understanding of place value. We are getting very confident at identifying the value of the tens and ones of each number and being able to build numbers using the appropriate tens and ones blocks. This week we used some math games online that have supplemented our learning. Feel free to use these games to practice at home (We are just working with tens and ones right now.

Base 10 Bingo
Base 10 Fun

Word Work

This week in word work, we worked on a couple different sounds. We worked on the "A" sound, which can be made using "ai" or "ay" like in the words today, brain and again. We also worked on the "sh" and "ch" sounds which sound very similar, however have a subtle difference. We practiced words such as child, ship and show.

Art

We did some fun Halloween art of Thursday as a part of our Halloween activities. We painted a background using water colours, then with black paper, created a foreground of things such as a haunted house and jack-o-lanterns.

Well, that is all for know. As always, if you have any questions or concerns please feel free to contact me at mdnishimura@cbe.ab.ca

Hope everyone has a great weekend

-Mr.N-