Happy Halloween!

It was great fun in Room 2 today-Mary Poppins came to visit! We had a lot of fun with Ms. Poppins. She talked with a funny accent and said some interesting words, but nonetheless we had an exciting day of learning.
One of our activities was reading the story Room on the Broom. We then had to design a broom for the witch and her animals.

3 Things We Learned Today:
1. "In Math we continued our aquarium problem today." V.C.
2. "In Gym we learned some new games. The first game was Zombie tag, then it was blob tag. The last game was called Halloween signals." A.C.
3. "In Science we learned that if we did not have a skull, our brain would not be protected and then we did an activity where we got to make a paper skull mask. Then we got to decorate it. " A.D.

Reminders:
1. I would love some more volunteers for the zoo. If you can help out please email me!
2. Please remember to send your child's home folder back to school. I haven't seen some home folders in weeks! it helps to keep important papers together.
3. Please return home reading. Some of us haven't gotten our stickers for exchanging books in a long time.

Measuring and Recording Temperatures

3 Things We Learned About Today:
1. "In Science we learned how to measure and record temperatures." H.B.
2. "In Music we played a spooky song. Some people did instruments. Some people acted as a witch and some people were a ghost and some people were a pumpkin." O.C.
3. "In Gym  we learned how to shoot the basketball." A.Z.

Reminders:
1. Students can come to school in their costume tomorrow. Please no masks, gore or weapons.
2. We still have room for our zoo field study next week. If you are able to help, please email me.

Ecosystem Engineers

We had a great time at Telus Spark today. Part of our time was spent in the Ecosystems Engineer Program. We learned what the word 'ecosystem' meant and went to explore a secret ecosystem right at Telus Spark!

3 Things We Learned About Ecosystems today:
1. "I learned that there about 1 million blood vessels in a dog bodies and a bunnies brain is so small; about the size of an eraser." A.H.
2. "Me and my group learned that white tailed Jackrabbits make a cave underground." J.T.
3. "Today I saw a lot of different shaped bones. A lot of long bones and short bones in animals and humans." A.B.

Reminders:
1. Halloween: I can wear my costume in the morning. No masks, weapons or gore. Please do not send candy to school.
2. No school on Friday.

Learning About Landforms

Today we began an exploration of what the word 'landform' means. We looked at a large picture of Calgary and identified all the different landforms we saw. We learned that trees, bushes and plants are actually not a landform in and of itself, but may be found within a specific landform (i.e. a tree on a plain). We will begin comparing landforms to 3 other Canadian Communities as part of our Social Studies learning.

3 Things We Learned Today:
1. "In Gym we played Simon Says and I think about half the class got out. We learned shooting and passing while shooting. We were trying to get it on the dot." M.C.
2. "In Music we learned how to play a new game Match the rhythm with the pumpkin. We also learned a song called 'The Cat Came Back." A.D.
3. "In Science we had an experiment, what is the temperature for cold, warm and hot water. Some of us had some right hypotheses, and some of us didn't have all of it right." K.O.

Reminders:
1. On our trip to Telus Spark we will be spending sometime outside. Dress for the weather as we will be outside for 30 minutes.
2. We can dress up for Halloween on Thursday. We can wear our costumes to school because the parade is in the morning. No masks or weapons.

Celebration of our Park!

Thank you so much for coming to our Celebration of Learning! We would like to share our favourite parts of today:
1. " My favourite thing about our Celebration of Learning was when we went to Room 1 and Room 11's exhibit." R.L.
2. "My favourite thing about our Celebration of Learning was people reading our books." A.B.
3. "My favourite thing about our Celebration of Learning was that so many people were asking me questions. One question was: How old do they live to be?'" J.T.
4. "My favourite thing about our Celebration of Learning was when the parents came because they asked people so many awesome questions." D.T.

Reminders:
1. Telus Spark field study on Tuesday. This is an all day field study. Please pack a non-heatable lunch.
2. Zoo field study forms due back now.

Putting on the Finishing Touches

Tomorrow is our big day! We can wear our fancy clothes tomorrow if we would like.
Please do not arrive any earlier than 10:55am. Once you arrive, you may go straight to Rooms 1,2 and 11 at 11:00am.

3 Things We Learned Today:
1. "In Math Workshop some of us finished our pattern fish and our options were Math games, Math Task, Teacher Time and On Your Own." H.B.

2. "In Gym we played Shark attack and we had a relay race that we had to pass the basketball." P.D.

3. 'In Writer's Workshop a lot of us finished our writing about our animals we were studying. After we started doing normal Writer's workshop." A.C.

Reminders:
1. Calgary Zoo field study form went home today. If you would like to volunteer please email me.
2. No school next Friday, November 1st for students.

Getting Ready for our Exhibit

Today's blog is brought to you by Miss. Moore. We had such a busy day that before we knew it, it was 3:25!
 We had a great time practicing our presentations with our big buddies today. We discussed beforehand possible questions that we may get asked. We talked about how to appropriately talk to a guest. We also received feedback from our big buddies to help us improve for Friday.

We are excited to share our learning with you on Friday!
See below for some pictures of our Room 2 students practicing with each other and their big buddies.

We Chose A Name for Our Park!

3 Things We Learned Today:
1. "In Writer's Workshop we continued or finished our brochures, our posters or our books." A.C.
2. "In Inquiry  we picked a name for our park and we talked about silly questions and good questions. " P.D.
3. "In Math Workshop we read a book called Pattern Fish and then  we made our own pattern fish." A.D.












Reminders:
1. Celebration of Learning is this Friday October 25th from 11am-12pm. We will be sharing all of our work around building our park and animal research.
2. Fun lunch on Thursday. It is Subway.

Preparing our Park

This afternooon as we were building and preparing our park for Friday's Celebration of Learning, we also learned the word cooperation and how to work as a team. We talked about what we should see and hear if we know that a team is working effectively together. Sometimes this may involve compromise, and at other times, it may involve coming up with a new idea.

3 Things We Learned Today:
1. "In Math Workshop  we learned the synonym to switch. The synonym is translate. We had a pattern and we had to translate it. The pattern was flower, flower, bird, leaf." A.C.
2. "In Music we learned how to play a new game called Pass the Pumpkin." A.D.
3. "In Gym we played a new game called Knock Out. You need a basketball and start dribbling with some partners. You're trying to knock their ball away without your ball running away from you." K. O.

Reminders:
1. Choir begins tomorrow at lunch.
2. Fun lunch this week on Thursday. It is Subway.

Follow Your Passion Friday is Back!

3 Things We Learned:
1. "In our Science Home Journals we got a problem that there are lumberjacks are cutting down trees in Fish Creek Park. We are trying to solve the problem of keeping our animals warm in the winter and cool in the summer." A.C.
2. " In Writer's Workshop I started making a book for our celebration of learning." A.C.
3. "In  F.Y.P.F.  (Follow Your Passion Friday) the V.I.P. chose who had an idea of what to in November for Follow Your Passion Friday. Some of our ideas were technology, sewing, baking/cooking and making slime." K.O.

Reminders:
1. Our Celebration of Learning is on Friday, October 25th. You are welcome to come between 11:00-12:00pm
2. Telus Spark field study Tuesday, October 29th. This is an all day field study.

Finding patterns in Nature

3 Things We Learned Today:
1. "In Math Workshop we were trying to make a growing pattern by using 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20." A.C.
2. "In Art we finished our cardboard animals that we are going to put in the park." A.H.
3. "In Writer's Workshop I finished turning my jot notes into sentences. Some of us are going to make a book. Some of us are going to make a poster. Some of us are going to make a brochure." O.C



Reminders:
1. Please note the disclaimer on the Telus Spark field study letter regarding the new exhibit, Body Worlds. If you have any questions or concerns regarding potentially visiting this exhibit, please let me know.
2. Science Home Journals due back now.

Sketching Like a Scientist

3 Things We Learned Today:
1. "In Music we read a Remembrance Day story about World War 2." F.O.
2."In  Science we did scientific sketching. We learned  that you need labels, details and do it realistically." A.C.
3. "In Writer's Workshop we were writing the habitat, food, enemies, special characteristics and appearance into full sentences." A.H.

Reminders:
1. Telus Spark forms due back.
2. Fun Snack on Friday.
3. Science Home Journals due back now.

Creating 3-D animals

3 Things We Learned Today:
1. "In Art we started building our animals that we're going to put in our park." M.C.
2. 'In Inquiry we finally started building our park. We have to decide what the name is and we have to build everything we put down on the list." K.O.
3. "In Music we watched a video. There was a machine with 2000 marbles and the marbles made music in the machine." O.C.

Reminders:
1. Telus Spark field study forms went home today. Please sign and return.
2. Important letter went home today regarding student services. Please let me know if you have any questions.

Plugging Along on Park Plans

3 Things We Learned Today:
1. "In Writer's Workshop I learned that cougars hunt on their own and they look like an orange color. When they are 2 they hunt on their own." E. A.
2. "In Inquiry we decided what should go in the park and what should not. We decided who will go in our park and who will not go in our park. Our homework is this weekend is to think of a name of our park." F.O.
3. 'In Phys. Ed we played anew game. This is how you played it. There be flying saucers around the gym. We have to try and knock over the saucers." V.C.

Reminders:
1. No school tomorrow or Monday. Happy Thanksgiving!

Learning to be a Writer

Today we began researching and collecting information regarding our animals to go into our park.
We learned that writers always have a plan to help them organize their information. You will see a picture of our planner below. If your child does some research at home that they would like to include on their planner, please just have them write it down on a separate sheet of paper.

3 Things We Learned Today:
1. "In Inquiry we talked about what we need for our park." A.B.
2. "In Science we did an experiment about which liquid would freeze first. Water froze first." "P.D.
Now our Science homework is, why did the water freeze first?
3. "In Writer's Workshop I found out what the food, enemies, and habitats for my animal in the park." A.H.

Reminders:
1. Last day to submit book orders is tomorrow, Thursday, October 10th.

Planning for our Park

1. "In Inquiry we picked animals and we are going to research them. These animals are going into our park." K.O. 
2. "In Math we made growing patterns and had a problem. We didn't know who was right-Miss. Moore or Ms. Watts. Ms. Watts said "yes, the pictures are patterns." Miss. Moore said 'no, they aren't." A.H.
 Please see below for some examples of growing patterns that we created this afternoon.
3. "In Music we learned a new game with dots. To play the game we put dots down on the floor for as many people that were playing." A.C.

Today we started really planning for our park. We each chose an animal that we are going to research to go into our park. We discussed the types of wildlife found in Calgary and then everyone got to choose one. We will be working on building our non-fiction writing skills through our animal research.

Reminders:

1. Science Home Journals due back now. Thanks to all the parents that did their homework and responded to the question-we had some great thinking this week!

2. If you are able to help out one morning a week or every couple of weeks, we'd love to have some parent volunteers for our class. Please email Miss. Moore if you can help. It's approximately 20-30 minutes. 

We've Got Important Work to Do!

3 Things We Learned Today:
1. "In Inquiry we decided what playground a new school should build. It helped us learn what the word optimal means." A.Z.
2. "In Math we made number patterns and we learned what the words core and element mean." A.B.
Parents-ask your child what these words mean!
3. "In Writer's Workshop we learned to make sentences more interesting for readers to read. We add more details." V.C.

Parents-we have been given a very important job. We need to design a new park in Calgary that will have some animals in it that we saw at Fish Creek Park and Prince's Island Park. We need to choose an animal to learn about. Ask your child which animal they want to research and become an expert at.We will share this project at our Celebration of Learning on October 25th.

Reminders:
1. Return Science Home Journals.
2. Scholastic Book orders due back no later than Thursday.

The Beginning of Science Home Journals!

3 Things We Learned Today:
1. "In Reader's Workshop we had color groups like green, blue, purple, red and orange. I did Read to Someone and Word Work." A.C.
2. "In our Science Home Journals we made a prediction of which liquid will freeze first. We had chocolate syrup, water, apple juice, ranch dressing, vinegar, milk and dish soap." A.H.
3. "In Inquiry we learned a new diagram called a Venn Diagram. In the Venn Diagram we got to choose which animal we wanted to put in the Prince's Island Park side that we did not see at Fish Creek Park. My animal was tracks of a duck." A.C.

We started our Science Home Journals. Parents have homework this weekend! You may notice that your child did not finish their prediction at school. Please give them time to finish this weekend. Then it's your turn to respond! We are really focusing on building our hypotheses' using the key words of I think and because.


Reminders:
1. We are now full for our volunteers for Telus Spark. Thank you to those parents who were quick to respond and help out!
2. October book orders went home today in Home Folders. Orders are due no later than Friday, October 11th, 2019. Preference is to order online. If you do send the paper ordering form in, please include a cheque written out to Scholastic Canada.
3. Science Home Journals due back on Monday.

Prince's Island Park Field Study Day!

 We had a fantastic morning at Prince's Island Park.

Here are some new things we discovered and learned at Prince's Island Park today:
1. "We discovered a new secret path. It was by the bridge and it had 3 or 4 different paths to go and one led to the river and we found some beaver signs. We found a tree that fell over." K.O.
2."We discovered some fur and we are not sure what it comes from but it was dead. It looked like a rabbit." A.C.

      3. "We discovered a beaver dam by the river." A.D.

4. "At Prince's Island Park we discovered lots of different footprints." V.C.

Reminders:

1. Our next field study is on Tuesday, October 29th. It is an all day field study to Telus Spark. Please email me if you are able to volunteer. 

2. Our Celebration of Learning on October 25th. It will be in the morning sometime between 10am and 12pm. More details to come. 

Experimenting with Hot and Cold

3 Things We Learned Today:

1. "In Science we did four experiments. We learned that when  you heat a candle it will turn into a puddle of wax. When you heat a marshmallow and it catches on fire it turns black." R.L.
2. "In Writer's Workshop we learned a few more of non fiction things they have in books. 2 of them were textboxes, and captions." M.L.
3. "In Music we learned how to do a poem on the xylophones called Engine, Engine Number Nine." F.O.

Reminders:
1. Bring a larger snack for tomorrow and a full water bottle.
2. Fun lunch tomorrow. It is Little Caesars.

What is the fastest number?

3 Things We Learned Today:
1. "In Math we learned how to play a new game called Pyramid. We also had a count to 100 race and 10s was the fastest way to count out of 5s and 2s." A.D.
2. "In Science we wrote what we think is going to happen a balloon if we fill it up with water and put it in the freezer and what will happen if we light a candle." H.B.
3. "In Writer's Workshop we wrote what was the same in all non-fiction books. Non fiction books have a table of contents, labels, and a map." A.H.  Some of us are now writing a piece of non fiction using some of these important features.

Reminders:
1. On Friday, October 11th there is no school.
2. Please continue to bring back your home reading. Some students have yet to change their books!