Pajama, stuffy pizza day!

Tomorrow room 10 will be having a make-your-own pizza lunch. The dress code is your most comfortable pajama's! Feel free to bring a stuffy friend too.

Poetry

Room 10 students are writing poems about animals and bugs. We wrote this poem together:

If I were a Painted Lady Butterfly 

By: Mrs. M and the students in room 10

If I were a Painted Lady Butterfly I would start my journey as a little blue egg. 

I would hatch out of my comfy egg and eat my delicious shell. 

I would eat, eat, eat yummy green leaves until I’m too big for my skin.

I would wiggle out of my skin, molting the too tight layer.

I would wrap my silky layer all around my body forming a golden chrysalis.

In a few weeks, I will push my way out of my cozy home and flap my wings until they dry and then I start to fly.

I would use my tongue as a straw to drink sweet nectar. 

I would hunt for the leaf that I was born on.

I would lay some tiny blue eggs continuing my butterfly lifecycle.

This weeks math centres

This week room 10 students are working on the following math centres:

1. Tug of war
2. Doubles Math
3. Odd and Even
4. Make 10
5. Solve the dice problem. What groups do you see?

We are focusing on addition and subtraction strategies.

Bug Lady!

We had a bug lady as our guest today! She had some really amazing bugs with her that we got to see, feel and even hold. We even invented a new word "ticklish"! This is how it felt to have the painted lady dance on our hands. We had a Isopod (Rolly Polly) walk over our hands but he kept trying to escape. The millipede was named Mr. Mustashio because it look like his little feelers were a mustache. One student described holding him "it feels like a little massage"-Sam. We also met Camilla the tarantula, we didn't hold her because she was shy but we did get to "shake her hand". Lastly, we learned about and held a great, big Vinegerou, which sprays vinegar out of his tail when he is frightened and as we headed out the door we looked closely at a scorpion. It was all super interesting and we learned a ton about their exoskeletons, what they eat and what kind of defenses they have.

Scientific Sketching of Flowers

Today room 10 looked closely at three types of flowers two of which we have in our outdoor classroom and one that came from my sister-in-laws house.

Lily of the Vally (smells amazing!)
Bleeding Hearts
Lavender

We started with the Legend of the Bleeding Heart, this is a story about how the flower was given it's name (the students were very interested in this). We then talked about where we might find these flowers and if they have other purposes like calming or medicinal. The students enjoyed using our art materials to sketch and record what they saw in their visual journals.

Nature Sketching

With this beautiful weather we have had this week room 10 students have been enjoying our outdoor spaces. We have been spending time in our outdoor classroom scientific sketching, writing, using a variety of art materials, collecting and studying bugs as well as spending time with our grade 3 buddies. The students have been working hard at drawing what their eye sees and adding descriptive words and labels to their work.

Maple Ridge Talent Show

Maple Ridge will be having a Talent show this year for Grades 1-4. There will be 2 shows; June 11 @ 2:30pm and June 17 @ 11:00 am. Auditions for Grade 1 students will be held during music class. If your child takes music/dance lessons or has a planned routine and would like to perform for the whole school they are asked to audition in front of their peers beginning this week. The last day for auditions will be Wednesday, June 5. Each student will be given 90 seconds for their performance. Song choice must be appropriate (no bad language or negative messages)

If you have any questions please email jmhebenton@cbe.ab.ca

Thank you

Mrs. J Hebenton

Music Teacher

Exploring Prince's Island Park

Today the grade 1 students explored Prince's Island Park. We observed and documented signs of animals, the Peace Bridge and used our scientific sketching skills that we learned from Ms. Rebecca to sketch some of the beautiful flowers. There were so many geese along the water and a large group of fuzzy, yellow babies. It was super interesting seeing all the shapes and designs that make up the Peace Bridge. We then had a lovely lunch together and made our way back to the bus. We were working on our observational skills, iPAD documentation skills and our scientific sketching skills today.

Math with Ms. Moore

Yesterday Ms. Moore presented us with this math problem:

The answer is 15 what is the question.

Our challenge was to come up with as many different number combinations that could end in the number 15. We had to show a number sentence and a picture that matched the problem. It was interesting to see how many of us saw different groupings and solved the problem in different ways.

* Please remember Monday is our field study to Prince's Island Park. Please dress for the weather and bring a healthy lunch and water. 

Today in room 10

For the last couple of months room 10 students have been starting their day at math centres. This week we are working on number bonds, number sense, exploring numerals and addition and subtraction.

Happy long weekend!

Remember tomorrow is a PD day, no school for students.
Monday is Victoria Day.

Field Study forms went home today for Prince's Island Park. Please have them back by next Thursday and e-mail sdmccaw@cbe.ab.ca if you would like to volunteer for this trip.

Have a wonderful long weekend!

Today in room 10...

Today in room 10 we attended the morning kindergarten assembly. We enjoyed learning about all the cool things they are working on in morning kindergarten.

Follow Your Passion Friday: Today was our last F.Y.P Friday. The students all enjoyed engaging in activities that they are passionate about. Ask your child how their F.Y.P went today.

Happy Mother's Day to all the wonderful mother's out there!

Today in room 10

Today in room 10 we:

Started off the day with math centres: we are working on number sense, adding, subtracting and subitizing

Research Groups: we continue to working in small groups finding research about animals in Alberta

Music: During music we learned about our vocal cords. We also had a fire drill and did really well straying calm and quiet.

Gym: We are practicing our skipping skills

Coding: We are learning about Binary Coding and how to speak "computer"

Follow Your Passion Friday (FYP)

All students participated in Follow Your Passion groups today. Each student came back to the class excited about what they did. Ask you child what they participated in or made during F.Y.P today!

Have a great weekend!

Today in room 10!

Today in room 10 we started a research project. In small groups we are researching animals of Alberta. We are interested in their appearance, habitat, winter activity, defenses and food. We are using voice recognition on the iPADS as our researching tool. Stay tuned for an update on our progress.

Story Workshop Explore Centres: Some new provocations this week are small looms and string and old and broken electronics, safety goggles and gloves and tools. The question is can you make a robot?

Friday: Choir and kindergarten are performing this Friday at 10:00 am. Everyone is welcome.