Another fabulous Friday!

Thank you Graham for a great job being our VIP this week. Today he shared a super cool erupting volcano experiment with our class that everyone really enjoyed. Next week Audrey is our VIP.

This week we started Daily 5 literacy centres: Read to self, Read to others, Word Work, Work on writing and read with teacher. Many of our students have been enjoying writing their own comic books and exploring with letters and sounds.

We are collecting for the Calgary Food Bank this year!

A little from room 10!

The first official room 10 Girls Tea Party took place this week. This will be a time/space where the girls talk about how they are feeling in regards to friends and how we can be strong girls who lift other girls up. We will be reading a book together called The Hundred Dresses by Eleanor Estes.

What do animals do in the winter? 

Room 10 is researching the animals that live around here. We are wondering what do they do in the winter? We know that some migrate, some hibernate and some adapt. We started our research today by doing a class research study on the North American Buffalo. We learned that the Buffalo or Bison do migrate when it gets cold in search of food like grass and berries. We also learned about how the First Nations people used every part of the buffalo and only hunted them to survive. We then choose our own animals and looked closely at them, creating scientific sketches in our visual journals. 

Two of our boys in room 10 are very eagerly making bracelets to sell for Cancer Research. This ideas was 100% driven from them. We are learning about giving to others and they decided that this is how they wanted to help others. 

Food Bank: Maple Ridge is collecting for the Calgary Food Bank this year. We are accepting non-perishable food items to add to our Food Bank boxes. 

Fabulous Friday!

Today was another Follow Your Passion Friday. Ask your child what they did today in their Follow Your Passion Groups. Some of our students shared that they made cool slime, Binary Coding bracelets, dinosaur skeletons and lava lamps.

V.I.P: Room 10 is starting V.I.P. Each student will be assigned a week throughout the year where they are the V.I.P for the week. They will come home with a task for each day of the week. The schedule will be sent home the Friday before.

Monday: Poster all about them
Tuesday: Favorite book
Wednesday: Interesting Artifact
Thursday: Estimation Jar- jar filled with small items for us to estimate and then count
Friday: Jokes or science experiment to share with the class (I will be there to assist them with the directions and procedure)

Parent/teacher conversations are next week.

Mystery Reader: We are still looking for mystery readers. Please e-mail me at sdmccaw@cbe.ab.ca if you or a family member are interested.

We are looking forward to an amazing trip to Telus Spark next week.

Have a great weekend!

Remembrance Day

This week room 10 has been thinking and remembering those who have fought to make Canada and the world a safer place. We discussed what we think peace is and we learned about what the poppy symbolizes. Room 10 did an amazing job representing Maple Ridge School during our assembly today by being quiet and respectful. Two of our students took our beautiful wreath up to the stage and gave it to Mr. Emery. We worked very hard on learning to sew, so that we could make our poppies for our wreath and then wear them home.

Remember next Wednesday is our Central Library Field Study. 

Telus Spark field study forms went home today along with a book that all grade 1 students get. 

HAVE A WONDERFUL LONG WEEKEND! SEE YOU ON TUESDAY 

Friends of 10!

Today we learned about Friends of 10. Friends of 10 is all the combinations of numbers that add up to 10. We explored all the ways we can make 10 first with snap cubes then we made Friends of 10 number chains with our big buddies.

This Friday we are participating in our very first Follow Your Passion Groups. This is a time were students are able to explore activities such as math, science and the arts that they are passionate about. This is a whole school activity where the students are in multi-aged groups around the school.

Friday is our Remembrance Day Assembly. We will be learning about ponies, the importance of Remembrance Day and what peace feels like. We will also be working on a class wreath.

Central Library permission forms went home today!