Announcements:
- Thank you to students and families who came to Parent-Teacher Interviews this week!!! If anyone was unable to attend and would like a meeting please email (lebowen@cbe.ab.ca) or call the school to book a time
- Spring break begins Friday, March 22nd (No school Friday) - Have a great break!!!!
- This week was Math Week and we had fun activities in the studio at lunch and we had fun celebrating Pi (3.14...) Day on March 14th
- Please do some Math practice (Mathletics, Khan Academy or worksheets - see Ms. Bowen for more information) over the break!
- We are also recommending that students read at least 15 minutes a night to increase their literacy skills as well as vocabulary
Math:
Students continue to work on understanding patterns and expressing patterns in tables, graphs, and rules (equations). This week much of the focus has been on graphing. Students observe the changes in a pattern, make an input/output (x/y) table and graph the coordinates (x, y). Their graphing skills have really been improving! They are beginning to be able to graph in all four quadrants of the Cartesian Plane. We will continue to practice graphing next week.Science:
Show and Tell: A relative of mine just came back from New Zealand with black sand. This sand is magnetic and students really enjoyed playing with it! This was a good connection back to the Planet Earth Unit.
Ms. Baillargeon, our literacy coach, taught two classes on visual note taking in the past two weeks. Students learned many techniques and then applied some of them to heat transfer concepts. It was really impressive to see how well they were able to connect and personalize key ideas.
Ice Box Challenge: After practicing drawing simple 3D shapes, students learned to draw 3D diagrams and cut diagrams of their Ice Box Challenge projects. They completed their design blueprints this week and will begin building on Monday.
**** Make sure to bring in any recycled materials you may need for Monday!!
Have a wonderful weekend!
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