A Great day at the Glenbow!

5 Things We Learned Today at the Glenbow Museum:
1. "We learned about metal from a long, long time ago" J.H.
2. "We learned that Fredrick Bagley woke the soldiers up with a bugle" O.F.
3. "Today we learned how to shade." L.L.
 4. "Today we learned how James MacLeod was told to gather a tribe to build a railroad" S.C.
 5.  "Today we learned about history" M.S.

Reminders:
1. Friday is the last day to bring food bank donations. Let's fill those bins!

Building our Toolbox

3 Things We Learned Today:
1. "In Math we learned about our Math Toolbox" M.S.
     "Our Math Toolbox name is Addition and Subtraction Toolbox" S. M.
2. "In Writer's Workshop we added new sentences to our story." D.T.
     "In Writer's Workshop we learned that Claire and Jaden are real people." N.G.
3. "With Mr. Cartier we learned how to code with Ozobots with only scissors, tape, rulers and markers" D.G.

Reminders:
1. Field study to Glenbow Museum tomorrow. Please pack a water bottle and sufficient lunch.

Becoming a Historian....

3 Things We Learned Today
1. 'In Math we learned how to make a number line. It was the longest number line we've ever spent our glue on" O.S.
2. "In Inquiry we are learning how to become a historian." K. H.
    "In Inquiry we're learning what the word past, present, future, historian, community, artifact and settlement means" N.G.
3. "In Reader's Workshop we learned how to do Stretchy Snake by the music song called Stretchy the Word Snake" J.H.
    "How we do it is we slowly stretch the words and sound them out" M.S.

Reminders:
1. We are going to the Glenbow Museum on Wednesday. Please do not send anything to heat up.
2. Continue to bring in food for the food bank. We will collect until Friday.

What is the Food Bank for?

Today we pretended to have a meal at school. We had to draw our favorite meal on a plate. However, in each group there was one person with a cup of dirty water and they were not allowed to draw their favorite meal on their plate. Why?  Because when that happens in the real world we wanted the people with the dirty water to feel what it felt like. We learned we can help these people through the Food Bank. We brainstormed some items that we can bring to our school because we have 3 boxes to fill! Some items that would be good to bring are:
- pumpkin seeds
-cereal
-soup
-crackers
-macaroni
-pickles
-ketchup
These are only SOME of the things we can bring. We are collecting food for the food bank until December 17th. We can bring items to school each day.

3 Things We Learned Today:
1. "In Science we learned what was the temperature of hot water, room temperature and actual snow" S.M.
2. In Inquiry we learned that there's enough food to feed everyone in the world" D. T.
3. "In Gym we learned to play  a game called Rock, Paper, Scissors Tag" L.M.

Why did the water move?

3 Things We Learned:
1. In Math we got a math popcorn problem" D.G.
2. "In Science we learned why the water went up the straw in the bottle. Because the water molecules started spinning around really fast and some of it was trapped in the straw and it went up because they got hot" D.T.
3. In Reader's Workshop we have been practicing one of our Take Action strategies. It is called Chunky Monkey" K.M.

Reminders:
1. Cookie dough orders are going home today. If your child did not come home with their order, then you can pick it up from the school until 5:30pm tonight.
2. No school Friday.
3. Field trip forms due back tomorrow.

Developing Scientific Theories

4 Things We Learned Today:
1. "In Inquiry we did tapigami and we learned how to makes boxes and tubes. " L.S.
2. "In Science we were looking at what happens if we put our warm hands around a bottle with water inside" M.S. ("and it was that the water goes up the straw" N.G.)
3. "In Gym we learned how to play Rattle Tag" D.G.
4. " In Inquiry we learned how to make a full rocket ship with tapigami" D.T.

Tomorrow we will discuss why the water went up the straw. We have many theories as to the reasons why! We will need to figure out the right one.

Reminders:
1. On Thursday we are having a special STEM night at school that begins at 6:00pm.
2. No school on Friday because it is a Professional Development Day for teachers.
3. Please return field study forms for the Glenbow Museum.

Learning Tapigami

Today we finished designing our creations to help with a basic need in 3018. We practiced building different shapes and objects using the technique of tapigami. Tomorrow we will be ready to begin building our creations based on what we made today using tapigami.

Our field study letters went home today for the Glenbow Museum next Wednesday, December 12th. Please complete and return by Friday.

Our STEM night is this Thursday at 6pm! Bring the family for a whole lot of fun!