Friday, February 21st, 2020

Literacy

Word Work

Students in Mr. Sandberg's Flex Literacy group have been working on other vowel sounds such as "ar", "ir", "er", and "or" in words like architect, march, first, birthday, perfect, energy, orange, and torn. Students have been specifically work on editing work for these correct spellings, brainstorming words with these spellings, and identifying words with these spellings while reading text. Can you fix the errors in the message below?

Good Morning,

As you all know, I am Batman. Last night I was jawred from my sleep when

I heard the bat alorm stert to cherp. Furst, I rolled out of bed and put on my

bat shurt. Next, I had my bat breakfast. Thurd, I raced to the bat cawer and

cruised to Commissioner Gorden’s house to find out what the emergency was.

It turned out to be a false alawrm. Gorden, needed help opening the pickle jare.

I helped him, then sped back home to get some sleep. 

Sincerely,

Mr. Sandberg (The Batman)

Our Arctic Stories

We have also been using our knowledge of Arctic stories to write our own stories inspired by the Arctic stories that we have studied. Students have been brainstorming, characters and setting features for their stories. Ask your child what a protagonist and antagonist are.

This week we read the story Baseball Bats For Christmas by Michael Kusugak.

As well we watched the short film Tuurngait which you can watch here:

Tuurngait on Youtube

Inquiry

We had a busy week in Inquiry. We had a visit from and Environmental Scientist who works in the Arctic monitoring past and present oil drilling sites. 

We also learned about Arctic architecture and Arctic animals.

We are starting to think about the problems hat the Arctic might face in the future, such as the Permafrost melting or the Sea Ice melting. 

Environmental Scientist

Arctic Architecture

Building an Igloo

Wild Archaeology: Whale House

Arctic Animals

We looked at each of the animals mentioned on the slide and we also watched some short nature videos that you can see here:

Polar Bear

Arctic Fox

Beluga Whale

Bowhead Whale

Caribou

Math

Subtraction 

We have started to learn about how addition and subtraction are related and how being experts at addition can help us to develop our understanding of subtraction. 

Fact Families

Students started to work on fact families for a variety of numbers. the numbers 7, 5, and 12 can be arranged into four corresponding equations. 

7 + 5 = 12

5 + 7 = 12

12 - 7 = 5

12 - 5 = 7

Dentist

We also had a visit from the dentist and team from Shine Orthodontics. Students learned how to brush and floss effectively and had the opportunity to participate in many oral hygiene activities, such as brushing pop off of a soaked egg. 

Maker Materials!



Hello families, 

We are about to begin the design process of our Environmental Scientist inquiry. We need many craft and maker materials:

• cardboard
• string
• masking tape
• saran wrap
• styrofoam
• egg cartons