We've had an exciting first week, getting to know our new students and teachers. Our science activities have focused on the processes of working as a scientist would. In teams, we have solved two problems, exploring the properties of different materials; an ongoing focus for our year. With "Saving Sam," students were asked to save a gummy worm who had capsized his boat with his life preserver inside. Students demonstrated creativity and excellent communication skills as they used limited resources to get Sam into his life preserver and back into his boat. Will a different surface allow us to blow larger bubbles? This science question provoked the idea that different scientists might find different results with the same materials. We will continue to explore these ideas, of fair testing, and different uses of materials throughout our year. Over the next few weeks we will be exploring animal life cycles, and classification of animals. Students have begun to develop some deep questions, those that make connections between ideas and aren't able to be answered by a Google search, about animals that they would like to explore. Numeracy skills we have been reviewing and developing include:
We have begun to learn about how pattern rules can help us to describe increasing and decreasing patterns. Being able to use charts and tables to record our data and to identify patterns from within a table and using Carroll Diagrams are areas of upcoming focus. Students have written a letter to their teachers about themselves and selected library books for quiet reading during our literacy time. Rosemary Nixon, an author, will be working with us over the next three weeks to support the development of our students' narrative writing. We have been creating riddles using juicy words based upon our four senses.
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AuthorsMrs. Montanaro, Mr. Messer and Mrs. Austman teach grades 3/4 at Elbow Park School in Calgary AB. Archives
April 2017
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