Week Sixteen

We got a pet fish! We still have to come up with a brilliant name for him, but he is here and we already love him! Write a comment if you have a suggestion for his name!

In social studies we learned about natural resources. While we were doing social studies we had computers and text books that we used to research different facts about Alberta's natural resources like water, oil (oil sands), coal, wood, iron, minerals, fossils and many more. We connected this back to when we learned about the First Nations and how they used the buffalo, which is also a natural resource. While we were researching we learned the importance of taking notes and putting the information into our own words. We learned how to be super flexible and patient during this activity! The first day we got the laptops the cart wasn't turned on so all of the laptops were dead!

  

  

  

  

In gym we are learning about hockey and how to stick handle and shoot the puck. In stick handling practice we learned about how important controlling the puck is. We did laps around the gym with our sticks and pucks to see how well we could do without looking at the puck. We learned about the snap shot and a wrist shot, soon we will be as good as some of the NHL players on the Calgary Flames.

  

Mrs. Craig visited us this week to teach us about some apps on the ipads. We learned how to edit pictures, we learned about Skitch and we used Book Creator. Mr. Southworth even came in and showed us his sick guitar skills on garage band. He rocked it!

      

  

Open gym started this week. Grade 3's get to go to the gym in the mornings on Thursdays and grade 4's get to go to the gym in the mornings on Fridays. We are allowed to use any gym supplies we want to and it is so fun, we can even continue to practice our hockey skills!

In science we continued to learn about light and shadow. We did centers that had prisms, books about light and shadow that we could research with, there was the water in the cup station that showed us about refraction, and a station with mirrors that showed how reflection works. During our centers we recorded our research like the real scientists we are and had to draw what we saw and write down what we thought was happening. Then we watched a Magic School Bus episode called "How to make a Rainbow." We learned that: When you put a flashlight through a prism you can see all the colours of the rainbow.

  

    

  

  

We did "Sart" (science art) this week. We got glass jars and flashlights and got to trace out shadows and practice shading.

        

We get to do free choice today because it's Friday and because we did such amazing work this week! Our insane teachers emptied the ticket jar we were shocked and appalled! But we understand that it's a new year and we have some new students so we are going to start off 2017 with a fresh jar of opportunities to win sweet prizes!

With love,

Room 7/8