Comparing Communities

Highlights from today:

• we got to use Plicker cards to answer questions about the Maritimes, Prairies and Arctic, for example, a mi'qmak (a bark tent/tipi) was not from the present day (Zaeem)
• in social studies we had our visual journals and then we wrote about the Arctic, Maritimes and Prairies to pick one of them and you had to write about languages, music, etc. (Rana)
• in math, we were working on subtraction and we used two six-sided dice to make 2-digit numbers and we checked with addition (Xaviera)

Look how excited we were to play with the Plickers! :) 

Comment below to answer this subtraction question: 93-48=

The Great Freezie Challenge of 2020 - Testing Day #1

Highlights from today :

• Welcome, Dante! We're so excited that you are joining our class :)
• we tested our first prototype for The Great Freezie Challenge of 2020... our prototypes did not last much longer than it did without a device, but we're excited to improve our designs for next time

Photos from Mrs. Seymour's class to indicate how long our freezies lasted in our first devices: 

(photos from Mrs. Cose's class coming tomorrow!)

Read-a-Thon Begins TODAY!

Read-a-Thon begins today!
Parents: Please add 20 minutes to your child's reading logs for in-school reading time today. Don't forget to initial the time spent reading (or being read to) each day :)

Our March Scholastic orders are due tomorrow, March 10th. If you have misplaced your flyers, feel free to order online at https://canadaclubs.scholastic.ca/en/home ...scroll down to the bottom and go to "Connect to a Teacher", then find Mrs. Cose or Mrs. Seymour at New Brighton School :)

Highlights from our learning today:

• we got to share our designs for our Freezie Challenge 2020, but we couldn't test because they did not get frozen (Sofia) ... our plan is to test tomorrow! 
• in social studies, we learned that in the north they don't have their houses on the ground because of permafrost (Chasity, Ibrahim, Chase)
• I learned that in the past, houses were not like they are now (Jaxon)
• we learned that in the past, people lived in igloos and mi'kmaq (bark tents) (Drayden and Marek)
• we finished our 2D shape creations (Maddox)

The Freezie Challenge of 2020

Highlights from today:

• we wrote our first draft of our animal article about how animals survive in the winter (Chasity)
• we made our own 2-D shape art (Drayden)

in science, we built our first device to keep freezies cold (Alivia) ... testing begins on Monday

• we will build a second one after we've built the first one and learned what went well and what we should improve (Jaxon)
• we build our insulating devices today. On Monday we will test to see if our prototypes can successfully keep a freezie frozen. (Xaviera)

• In Math, we were working on calculating the cents it would cost to build shape pictures. For example, a rectangle cost 25 cents and a triangle cost 1 cent, a square cost 5 cents, a circle cost 10 cents.  (Rana)
• In PE we got to play "Airhockey" and "9 square. In 9 square the team in the 9th square gets to start with the ball every time. It is tricky because it is easy to get out. Abem was my partner and we got to go in the middle twice and stayed for 3 turns.  I got 100 points in air-hockey. It was really fun! (Avery)
• Mrs. Seymour and Mrs. Cose's class get an extra special reading incentive for during the Read-a-Thon. Students will track their minutes read starting on Monday, March 9th. For every 20 minutes read, students will earn a trading card. Students got to pick between Calgary Flames trading cards and Canadian Wildlife trading cards (Corbin)... BONUS! If you earn all the cards on your category, you can earn bonus cards from the other category. 

Reminders:
- Read-a-thon starts Monday
- Conferences will be held on March 19 & 20. Booking opens March 12 at 4pm
- Spring Break starts with an early dismissal on March 19, until March 30th

Don't forget to "Spring Forward" ... clocks go ahead one hour this weekend.

Read-a-thon Begins Today!

Our Annual New Brighton School Read-A-Thon begins today! 

That means that students will be extra excited to read at home! We are asking family and friends to support us in fundraising for a future Residency (Mr.Stockton who worked with us last year is an example of a "Residency"). Mrs.Cose & Mrs.Seymour will be giving our classes an extra special incentive - stay tuned!

Highlights from today:
- We planned an insulating device today. We need to build a device to keep a Freezie frozen! We will build it tomorrow. (Drew)
-Remember it is MOVIE NIGHT tonight. (Kohde)
- In Art, we worked on Math-Art by creating pictures using 2-D shapes. (Zaeem)
- In Music, we played a new game called Music Tic-Tac-Toe (Xaviera)
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Reminders:
- Library books need to be returned regularly. We will visit the Learning Commons tomorrow.
- Next fun lunch can be ordered through Healthy Hunger. April 2nd

Happy Tuesday!

Happy Tuesday!

Highlights:

- Today was Jasmine's birthday! (Abem)


- We started a new novel called, Toys Go Out. Today in the book the toys went in the backpack and they were worried about where they were going. The little girl took them to school for show-and-tell.(Anna)
- in writing, we had a chopped up article and in groups, we put them in an order that made sense
- in social studies, we learned about symbols of communities across Canada (Aubrey)
- In PE we played a new airhockey game and a new 9-squares game.(Aaron)
- In Science we  we watched a video  about animals that can survive in extreme conditions. One of the animals was a seaworm that can survive extreme heat (Zaeem) In Canada, animals adapt to the extreme cold by:

• migration (leaves to go somewhere warmer) 
• hibernation (sleeps during winter)
• amphibians are dormant (gluten acts like sugar to lower their temperatures) 
• survivors (mammals grow thick coats to conserve body heat to survive the winter, some animals have an inner layer of skin as well)

- In literacy stations my group worked together to make sentences using linking words. (Drew)
- in literacy block, I got to read with my teacher today (Aubrey)

Thank you for your patience while RAZ-Kids was renewing... our accounts are now active again :) 

Heads Up! Building Project:

We're going to be building again... please send in the following *clean* materials:

• cotton balls
• cotton fabric
• bubble wrap
• styrofoam (trays, cups, or S-package-peanuts in a bag... NOT meat trays unless they're brand new)
  
• tinfoil
• yogurt/plastic containers - LARGE SIZE ONLY please 
• plastic cups
• coffee cans
• newspaper

Happy March... Back to Reality/Routine!

Today we got back to our routines... it felt like September for some of us after being out of routine for a few weeks getting ready for our Celebration of Learning.

Highlights from our learning today:

• in science, we learned about animals that adapt to survive extreme temperatures (Jaxon)
• in social studies, we finished learning about the music culture in the arctic including drums made out of seal skin and music from their throats (Zaeem)
• in math, we learned about 2-D and 3-D shapes (Chasity) including some new ones like trapezoid (Marek) and rhombus (Drayden)
• in literacy blocks we had new rotations including a word/sentence builder (Rana)
• we are starting a new read-aloud Illustrator's Notebook called "Toys Go Out". Today we made predictions about what the book will be about

Heads Up! Building Project:
We're going to be building again... please send in the following *clean* materials:

• cotton balls
• cotton fabric
• bubble wrap
• styrofoam (trays, cups, or S-package-peanuts in a bag... NOT meat trays unless they're brand new)
  
• tinfoil
• yogurt/plastic containers - LARGE SIZE ONLY please 
• plastic cups
• coffee cans
• newspaper