January 11, 2017- Is it biodegradable?

Agenda:

Read 30 min

Homework: math mystery case due tomorrow, science garbage audit due Monday, practice multiplication facts

www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQCz3Ygs568 (Too good to waste)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zhv-Dv9h3J4  (how recycling is sorted)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4tEbAm3cCA (what is biodegradable)
We will be trying out the new snowshoes tomorrow, please be dressed to go outside.

What did we do today?

• At the start of the day, we were given a newspaper and we had to highlight numbers in two colours. One colour was for an estimated number and the other was for an exact number.  We shared some of the numbers we found. After gym, we were given different situations and we had to figure out if it needed an estimate or an exact answer.
• In gym, we practiced our setting and bumping passes in groups in a game called Countdown.  After that we played a mini game of volleyball, where we had to serve the ball over the net and the other team got to catch it and pass it two times before bumping it over.
• In science, we re-watched the videos we saw yesterday and we watched a new one about what is biodegradable.  Someone dug a hole and put different materials such as, glass, styrofoam, lettuce, aluminum foil, cotton cloth, an apple, paper and cardboard inside before covering it up.  After two weeks they returned to see what was breaking down.  We then got more time to work on our Too Good to Waste journals.
• Mrs. Wilkens put us in partners in health and we shared our Unthinkable situations with each other.
• In music we learned a song called Kookaburra on the ukulele.  We also learned two new notes on the ukulele- F and G.
• During Daily 5, we are working hard to finish our tasks for the week.

Questions:

1. What is our next word work and work on writing tasks going to be next week?

January 10, 2017- Too Good to Waste!

Agenda:

Read 30 min

Homework: math mystery case due Thursday, science garbage audit due Monday, practice multiplication facts

www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQCz3Ygs568
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zhv-Dv9h3J4

What did we do today?

• At the start of the day, we were given a number in the hundreds on our backs.  We had to figure the number by asking questions.  Using that number, we then put ourselves around the room near the nearest hundred.  This was our introduction to rounding.
• In gym, we learned how to set, which is an overhead pass.  We played a game called SET, where we had to set to the wall and they had to return it.  We also learned how to serve underhand.  At the end we had a serving "shower", where we all served the ball at the same time.
• During buddies, we helped them get onto the computer to a site called Make A Flake.  They got to make a number of snowflake designs using scissors.
• In read aloud/ language arts, Ms. Jones read us two books, Little Red Gliding Hood and Stanley's Party.  We had to identify the story starters as an action, dialogue, a thought or sound.
• During Daily 5, we are working hard to finish our tasks for the week.
• At the end of the day in science, we watched two videos from the City of Calgary.  One was about the landfill and composting, and the other was about how the recycling is sorted. We started to journal about what we learned.

January 9, 2017- Curling Champions!

Agenda:

Read 30 min

Homework: math mystery case due Thursday, science garbage audit due Monday, social timeline picture due tomorrow, practice multiplication facts


What did we do today?

• At the start of the day, we had 20 minutes of reading because of the bad roads.  Then we worked on our multiplication ninja tests.
• In gym, we had a special guest, Leona from Rocks & Rings, to teach us how to curl.  We learned how to throw a rock and sweep.  We learned about the house, which has the button, the 4th, 8th and 12th, which are the rings we throw the rocks to.  Curlers sweep to clean the ice, to make the rocks go faster, to heat the ice to make the ice pebbles melt and develops a path for the rock to travel on. 
• In science, we did a classroom audit of our class garbage.  We sorted it into recycling, compost, refundables, landfill and paper towel compost.  Then we completed a chart with estimated percentages of how much those categories were of our garbage.  We will be doing one of these audits at home too.  We also got a poster sheet of what we can and cannot recycle at home.  If a plastic container has the number 1-7 on it, it can be recycled.
• In language arts, we finished our nutrient tag journals that we started on Friday.  We also worked on finishing our story starter activity for Daily 5.
• At the end of the day, we had time to finish our 50-200 million years ago timeline art.  We have to finish it at home for homework if we did not finish.

Questions:
1. Will we have another curling day? Next week or next year?
2. When are we going to start reading our next read aloud novel?
3. What will the results of the home garbage audit be?

January 6, 2017- We are environmental scientists!

Agenda:

Read 30 min

Curling residency Monday

What did we do today?

• As environmental scientists, we were given pieces of paper that we had to sequence to figure out the nutrient cycle in nature.  This is how natural waste in nature is recycled.
• After that, we had to play a game called Nutrient Tag.  We were assigned as either a producer, a herbivore consumer, a carnivore consumer or a decomposer.  The producers had a "nutrient" ball, which the herbivores needed.  The carnivores could take a nutrient ball away from a herbivore and a decomposer could take the nutrient ball away from a producer, herbivore or carnivore.  If a decomposer got a ball, they would put the nutrient ball in a hoop, representing that the nutrients went back into the soil.  They could then be picked up by the producers.
• When we came in, we wrote in our Fresh Air Friday journals about our part in the game.  We needed to make sure we used the proper science terms and sentence starters.

Questions:

1. Will our Fresh Air Friday next week be science related?
2. How many animals and plants survived, other than the decomposers?

January 5, 2017

Agenda:

Read 30 min

Homework: science definition pictures, practice multiplication facts
Fresh Air Friday tomorrow- be dressed and ready to go outside to learn.

What did we do today?

• At the start of the day, in math, we continued to work on and finish the math assessment we started yesterday.
• In gym, we played PASS back and forth to warm up.  Then we played a game called Forearm 21 where we had to bump to each successfully.  We got 1 point if we bumped after a bounce and 3 points if we were able to bump off the pass.
• After recess, we continued to work on our 50-200 million years ago timeline picture of Alberta.
• Today in music, we played the ukelele and we learned the g note.  We also had to answer questions about the ukelele.
• During our computer lab time, we had to delete old files and pictures and make sure our files were in our network drive, as our school server will be changing at the end of January.
• We chose an activity to complete on our passports during Daily 5.
• At the end of the day, we had to match five words to the definitions and draw a picture to help us remember the meaning.  The words were: garbage, decomposer, natural waste, producer, and consumer.

Questions:
We ran out of time today.

January 4, 2017

Agenda:

Read 30 min

Homework: no math mystery this week, practice multiplication facts

What did we do today?

• At the start of the day, we worked on our first brainstretch of 2017 and we reviewed our math skills by working on a math assessment.
• In gym, we started our volleyball unit.  We played a game called Pass, where we had to bump the ball back to your partner against the wall.  If you let it bounce twice, your partner earned a letter.
• In math, we reviewed our addition, subtraction, multiplication and division skills by playing ATTACK.
• After recess, we got a rubric to help us with our title pages for our new unit in science. We started writing what we already know in our KWHLAQ charts.(what you know, what I want to know, how am I going to find out, what I learned, what action will I take and what further questions do I have).
• In health, we wrote about our Topic Twistermeister moment.  We also watched the video Meet Doug.
• Today in music, Ms. Stephure introduced us to an instrument called the ukelele. She taught us different strings and how to play them.  We played the tune "Row, row row your boat" after.
• During Daily 5, Ms. Jones introduced us to another word work activity and went over her expectations for story beginnings.  They are action beginnings, using thoughts and feelings, exclamations and what the character might hear.  Then we worked on choice activities.  

Questions:
1. What was the most popular story starter chosen to revise in four new ways?
2. When will we play our first game in volleyball?
3. How many people will bring ukeleles to music?  What other songs will we play?

Happy New Year! (January 3, 2017)

Agenda:

Read 30 min

Homework: no math mystery this week, practice multiplication facts

What did we do today?

• At the start of the day, we had a class meeting where we were able to share what we did over the winter break.  Some of us skied, watched movies and a few were sick.
• In gym, we split the gym into two sections.  One half played hockey while the other half played a ringette game.
• In math, we practiced and tested our multiplication ninja skills, since we were not in school on Monday.
• After recess, we made our second timeline picture for Alberta, which is 50-200 million years ago.  We have to include a dinosaur found in Alberta, sand, water and animal/plant remains.  We also found out that the water during this time were becoming more shallow.
• Ms. Jones read a book called Bone Poems.  We also found out that we are born with 270 bones but some of those fuse together as we become an adult, so as a grown up, we will have 206.
• During Daily 5, Ms. Jones introduced how we can start our stories better.  We went over action beginnings, using thoughts and feelings, exclamations and what the character might hear.  Then we worked on choice activities.  
• At the end of the day in science, we were introduced to our new unit, Waste In Our World.  Ms. Cowdy showed us the different types of bins we should be using at the school- compost, paper towel compost, recycling paper and plastic and refundables, which is for juice boxes.

Questions:
1. What book will Ms. Jones read next for read aloud?
2. What drills will we be doing for our volleyball unit?
3. What will we learn about in our Waste in Our World unit?  What do we need to Rethink about   our garbage?