"Spring" Is Finally Here

Good Morning everyone. I hope everyone had a fantastic and restful Easter break.  All I can say is Cadbury Mini Eggs are my favorite.

Language Arts

Spelling:

Our spelling words for this week are as follows;
in   but   may   here   people

Writing:

We have finished out penguin research and will be writing our reports this week.  We have found lots of very interesting information that the students are excited to talk about.

Word Work:

We are continuing with our making words lessons twice a week.  Our word family for this week is the "ow" word family (crow, flow, mow).

Math

For our Monday math, we just finished up numbers to 100 and skip counting.  We will continue to cover it in some aspects throughout the rest of the year.  We are going to begin our unit on 2D shapes and 3D objects during Monday math.  We will also be finishing up subtraction from 12 by the end of April.  We will continue with learned strategies to solve word problems in subtraction.

Science

In science we are continuing with out "needs of plants" unit.  We have learned about the 4 basic needs of plants as well as the 5 main parts of plants (flower, stem, fruit, leaf, and root).  We have also planted our very own garden so the students can log their observations of the growth of plants from seed.  We have planted peas, cucumbers, sunflowers, radishes, carrots, chives, green beans, and romaine lettuce.
We will be continuing with this unit this week, doing some more experiments, including showing how water is absorbed into a plant, using celery sticks.

Social Studies

Our heritage project presentations are in full swing.  We have finished 7 presentations so far and it is very interesting learning where our friends ancestors came from.  We have a map on our wall showing the distances our ancestors would have traveled to reach Alberta.  The students are amazed at how far some of their classmates relatives have gone to get here.

Some of our garden plants

 Green Beans

Lincoln Homesteader Peas 

Cucumber 

Sunflowers

I hope everyone has a wonderful week.

Mr. Aasen

April Is Upon Us

Good day everyone.  I hope you all have had a wonderful and restful spring break.  I certainly have.  It is hard to believe we are already a week into April, and in two weeks we have Easter long weekend.  We have lots of work to do up to that point though.

Language Arts

Spelling:

This week we have our 5th review test covering the last 20 words.  The words are as follows:

yes, over, just, most, little, as, run, who, jump, would, if, be, one, more, into, so, or, now, name,where

Writing:

We have finished up persuasive writing and our writing this month is going to focus on reporting.  We will be conducting a research project on penguins focusing on finding facts about the animal.  The students will look up all sorts of information about penguins and will write a report explaining their findings.This will also extend our science "Needs of Animals" unit across the language arts curriculum.

Math

We will have a couple more weeks covering numbers to 100 in our "Monday Math".  We will continue with subtraction from 12 the rest of the week.
Our focus in subtraction will be continuing to work with learned strategies that work for the students in order to solve a problem.  The students have done lots of work with word and picture problems and are gaining a great understanding of how to solve these problems, both addition or subtraction.

Science

Before spring break, we began our "Needs of Plants" unit.  We will continue with this unit this week, looking at some more types of common plants and the different parts of the plant.  We will eventually be growing our own plants in the classroom.

Social Studies

For Social Studies, we will be presenting our "Family" projects that were taken home during spring break, as part of our Heritage Unit.  I am looking forward to learning more about all of the students.



I hope you all have a wonderful week!

Mr. Aasen