Happy Halloween!

It was a great day today at Maple Ridge as we saw lots of dinosaurs, unicorns and superheroes! Room 2 enjoyed The Great Pumpkin Slinger Challenge. We spent a lot of our day planning our catapults and then testing them out. It was the Super Slinger 2000 group that sent their pumpkin 10.7m!

3 Things We Learned Today:
1. "We learned in our pumpkin slinging challenge that we need to improve our designs to  help the pumpkin go further" L.L.
2. "In Gym we learned a new game called Halloween Signals" N.G.
3. "We performed a play called Pumpkin Head for the Grade 4s. We learned that next time we need to use stronger singing"A.D.

Thank you to the parents who are volunteering in the classroom next week while we make our clay animals.

Reminders:
1. Please think carefully when sending snacks to school over the next couple of days. Even a little bit of extra sugar from Halloween treats can greatly impact learning and behaviors at school.

All Hallow's Eve....

'Twas the night before....

 You have to love technology. We had a blog post, but it seems to have disappeared. This is just a reminder for tomorrow that if you would like to send a change of clothes with your child please do. We will be engaged in Halloween related learning activities all day. Please watch the blog tomorrow night for some great pictures!

A new song to learn!

Today your child will come home and will be eager to share a new song that we learned today. We have been reviewing our vowel names, and sounds to help us both with reading and writing.

Vowel Song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jh11mx9tF9o 

I encourage you to listen and sing along with your child. Also when reading and writing, identify the vowel sounds they hear from the song in their books or texts.

3 Things We Learned Today:
1. We learned what the word 'resource' means in regards to providing for our basic needs. We looked at a picture from the East coast and identified the resources in the picture that we may use to help us build a shelter.
2. We learned the mathematical names for ones, tens and hundreds blocks.
3. We put our snow devices on display in the iLab to receive feedback from the students this week.


Special Request:
We are needing 2-3 volunteers next week for a clay project. We will require about 2 hours of your time as the students are creating an animal from a specific region within Canada. You will receive specific instructions from our resident expert to assist the students. We don't know the exact day yet, but it would most likely be Monday-Thursday in the a.m. If you could help us out for a couple of hours on one of these days, please email me and I will put your name down.

Reminders:
1. Halloween parade on Wednesday morning. Please do not send any weapons, gore or scary costumes to school.
2. Fun Snack this Friday, November 2nd. 

Happy Long Weekend!

3 Things I learned today:
1. "We had a new problem to solve in Math. We have a question to answer. It is 'How do good Mathematicians communicate' "N.G.
2. "We learned that in a story the problem must be solved" S.C.
3. "We had Mr. Cartier come to our class because he will be teaching us every Thursday from after Morning Break until lunch" D.G.


Reminders:
1. No school tomorrow.
2. Next Wednesday we can wear our costumes to school all day. No weapons. No gore. No helmets or masks that cover my eyes.
3. Please read weekly update on the school website.

A Morning at Carburn Park

We had a great morning at Carburn Park! The students did a FANTASTIC job walking both to and from the park. We enjoyed collecting materials in the park to build our own shelter for our Carburn Park protectors. We came back to school and reflected as to why we chose particular materials and why we thought our shelters were strong and stable.

3 Things We Learned Today:
1. "In Carburn Park we had to figure out how to make a house for our Carburn Park dolls and it had to be prepared for everything" N.G.
2. "We learned to how to serve with a partner playing volleyball in Gym" S.M.
3. "We were tired on the walk and we saw lots of dogs" A.M.

Getting Ready for Carburn Park

Apologies once again as I see yesterday's blog post got stuck in draft mode. Please read yesterday's post as well for important updates.

We are off to Carburn Park tomorrow as to what looks like it's going to be a nice day. We are expecting it to take about 45 minutes to walk each way. With that being said, please make sure your child has:
1. good walking shoes
2. a full water bottle
3. a larger snack than usual as we expect the students to be extra hungry from their walk

A reminder to please send your child's Carburn Park Protector doll to school tomorrow to be used during our time at Carburn Park. Some of our students have indicated they no longer have their doll, which is fine. However if your child is able to locate their doll tonight, please have them bring them tomorrow.

3 things we learned today:
1. We learned what the words 'digit' and 'number' mean. Are they the same? Different? Ask your child!
2. We learned what needs to be included in an excellent inventor's description. We are working on creating descriptions for our Snow devices.
3. We learned why each pig in the story The 3 Little Pigs chose the materials they did to build their houses. We learned that they chose these materials because that's what was available at the landscape.

As part of our time in Carburn Park the students will be using their dolls from last year. If you know where your child's felt doll is that was made with the help of Ms. Tracy, please send to school for Wednesday. If the doll is no longer accessible, that is okay as we have a small supply of alternate 'people' they can use.

3 Things We Learned Today:
1. "Today we learned what a need and want is. We got sticky notes and had to decide where it was. A need or a want" S.M.
2. "We started to write descriptions for our snow devices."L.M.
3. "Today in Music we learned a new song called Pumpkin, Pumpkin Round and Round" M.C.

Reminders:
1. Bring your felt doll to school.
2. No school on Friday.