Hola Parents and Guardians!
In Spanish, we continue to tackle learning about the house, and have been wrestling with a copy and fill in the blank activity, that required students to conjugate known and practiced verbs such as estar ("to be"), ser (also "to be"), tener ("to have"), and llamarse ("to be named/called").
In Science we are wrapping up "Waste in our World" by exploring the lifecycle of a product, and making some posters of the lifecycle product of an object we use often in school. It has been fascinating learning more about the manufacturing (production) stage of the lifecycle. The teachers even pulled out some old dusty "How it's Made videos" from their youth. ;)
In English we have been expanding our inferencing skills, by learning about how to figure out the meaning of words through context clues! See the picture attached below for some of the things we have been looking at for interpreting context clues.
We are trying to wrap up our novel "Fatty Legs" with a diorama art installation in the learning commons, for which students will be summarizing different chapters in small groups, and then choosing two scenes from each chapter to build dioramas of. We are also tapping into the concept of recycled art for this project, where we have been exploring how art can make a statement or be a protest, and specifically looking at recycled art as a way to draw people's attention to the problem of plastic and garbage pollution. Students will be building their dioramas from only materials found in our recycling bins at home, to explore how to give new life and purpose to things that would otherwise be discarded.
In Social Studies we hope to finish the Natural regions of Alberta before the break.
In Math we have been working to explain our procedure for 4-digit addition, and students have demonstrated their strengths in doing addition, as well as some word problems. We continue to work on the process of extracting the correct information from word problems, to know what we are solving and why (as well as how!). We are also dipping our toe in some estimation in addition.
In Art we have been exploring Recycled art. Stay tuned for some slides to be uploaded onto Google Classroom, to make all of the inspiration we have been given available to students at home as well.
Please do not forget this Friday, December 16 is Crazy Hat Day!
See you soon!
