Week 5

BREAKING NEWS:

We are very excited for our field trip to Heritage Park on Wednesday, October 9! Please sign and return your forms if you have not already done so. If you are able to volunteer, please let your child's teacher know as soon as possible.

Please remember to send your child with a lunch, water bottle, and weather appropriate clothing on Wednesday! Thank you!

In LITERACY we have been working hard to learn the value of EMPATHY and how important it is to understand other people's feelings. We have been discussing different scenarios and exploring how we could show empathy to familiar characters and each other through role play and writing. 

We have also been practicing our letter writing and beginning to experiment with writing compound sentences by using the word "and" (only 1 "and" per sentence!).

Our sight words next week are:
-want
-eleven
-tomorrow
-sixth
-cousin

In MATH we have been exploring ordinal numbers, meaning we can put numbers and objects in a sequence by first, second, third, etc. We have been ordering numbers we know, objects in pictures, and characters from familiar stories all week long! We are also learning how to use the correct ordinal number words when reading the date on our calendar!

In SCIENCE we learned how to be scientists by observing and participating in experiments with temperature. We know that good scientists are always safe and in control! We are also learning about the scientific method, and how it's important for scientists to always record their predictions and observations when conducting experiments. We know a good scientists always starts with a question. Our question was "How will hot and cold water change my crayon?" We made predictions and were amazed when the hot water melted the crayon into a flat puddle! We recorded our observations, and we are so excited to conduct more experiments with hot and cold.

In SOCIAL STUDIES we continued our inquiry on Calgary in the Past by focusing on Calgary in the Present. We watched videos, read books, and used our own experience to brainstorm the things the make Calgary a unique community, like the Calgary Tower, the Calgary Flames, and our very own community of Saddle Ridge. We reflected on our Calgarian identities by drawing pictures of the things that make us proud to be Calgarians

Thank you for growing with us!
-Ms. Meier and Ms. McBride