Our blog is up and running! Make sure you check here weekly to see what's been going on in room 108. In the first few weeks we got used to some of the new routines, and got started on some great learning. We have completed a design challenge (using only the materials in our desks), played math games (with our individual math materials), spent time outside exploring nature and working on our science topics (Rocks and Minerals - 3, Light and Shadow-4), and started exploring strategies to work through math problems during our Number talks.
This past week we took our first trip to the coulee. When we arrived we read through the Acknowledgement of the Land. We split into some smaller groups for our exploration. The grade 4s talked about the purpose of the Acknowledgement and began to look for things on the land that are a value to us and compared them with things that communities is the far past would have valued on the same land. Grade 3s explored the Porcupine rock formation and looked at different sedimentary rock formations that can be found all through the coulee. They talked about the rock cycle and aspects of sedimentary rocks.
Sound Kreations "There was an instructor names Mr. Moises and he taught us some dance moves. Today we did all of them in the song" Sam "We had a dance instructor and he taught some dance moves." Quinn Fractions "We did a word problem how we can split 1-10 fractions into 1/2. All the ones in the middle were the answer." Charlie "We got into groups and we had to figure out some fractions that were equivalent." Dorela Cuisinaire Rods "We each got a group and we had these Cuisinaire rods which are like ten rods but they are 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. We had to make a picture with them then we had to count up what the value was all together. Then after that we had to draw our character or whatever we made we had to draw" Makena "We used addition and multiplication to see how much our picture was worth." Jumana Coding "We went into Google Classroom and there was a website called Code.org and we would have videos for each ...