Week Four!

We started to learn about "Zones of Regulation" we learned about the green zone, the blue zone and the yellow zone this week.

The green zone is the go zone. This is where we like to be and is the zone we are in when we are ready to learn.

The blue zone is a rest zone. We don't like to stay in this zone for a long time. It's when we feel sad or sick or bored or upset.

The yellow zone is when you get frustrated, or annoyed or acting very silly. When we are in this zone we are not ready to learn.

We talked a lot about strategies and building our tool box so that we know some options about what we can do when we aren't feeling our best.

We made learning goals for ourselves this week. We first wrote them in our writing books and then put them onto leaves so we can add them to our classroom tree.

   

We started to learn about the Regions of Alberta in Social Studies. We discovered that the 6 different regions of Alberta are the Rocky Mountain Region, Grassland Region, Boreal Forest Region, Foothills Region, Canadian Shield Region, and the Parkland Region. Ask me what I know about these regions.

We are dancing in gym! We are participating in Sound Kreations with a really cool dance instructor named Keston! This week we learned about hip hop! He taught us some super sweet moves like the "shamrock", the "outlaw", the "mosquito", the "rumble", the "whip and nae nae", the "Harlem shake", the "noodle" and "8 town stomp." Dance is so much fun, it's like going to a party every day!

We started our first novel of the year it is called "The City of Ember"

In math we played a cool game, "Order it!" we had to work together in teams and order numbers from greatest to least OR least to greatest. The first team to complete their number line, won! We also started a glossary in math of important math terms we will be using this year.

1. greatest - the biggest number, larger than another number

2. least - the smallest number, smaller than all the other numbers

3. comparing - looking for a difference between two numbers

4. manipulative - a material you can use to help you

5. equal - the same

6. adding - putting numbers together

7. subtraction - taking numbers away from other numbers

8. place value - each digit in a number has a place. It can go into a place value chart

9. rule - a way to do something in math

10. rank - how high a number compared to other numbers

11. strategy - something you use to solve a problem or find an answer

12. prove - use your strategies to SHOW how you solved the problem

13. solve - to figure out the problem and find an answer

14. problem - an equation that needs solving

15. equation - how you write a problem (3 + 7 = 10)

Until next week!

Love, 

Room 7 & 8