January 23rd, 2015.

We were very fortunate to have one of our parents come to our classroom to complete a project using clay.  As a connection to our study of Alberta and our look at owls, the students created beautiful owl piggy banks.  They put a great deal of effort into their work and the results are incredible.  We cannot wait for them to be glazed and fired.  A huge thank you to our special volunteer who made it all happen!

In Language Arts and Social Studies, we continued with our winter bird research.  The students have been working on locating information on the internet and reading through text for specific information such as their birds appearance and types of sounds made by their bird.  We have been working on taken information read and recording it in the students own words in the form of jot notes.  The students also worked on sketches and watercolour paintings of their birds.  We are still working on our paintings, but here are some images of the start of our creations.

In Mathematics, we began looking at measuring area and perimeter.  We used cm grid paper to create shapes with a variety of different perimeters.  We also worked to calculate the perimeter of shapes where the measurement of all sides was not given.

In Science, the students worked on a class poster, representing the different elements of weather.  Each student wrote a definition of a given weather word.  The words were then placed into categories including; extreme weather, relating to water and weather instruments.

Report cards will be coming home on Monday and conferences will take place the evening of Thursday, January, 29th and the morning of Friday, January 30th.  We look forward to meeting with you then.  Have a wonderful weekend.