Important Dates
Dec. 16-18 Peace Festival Activities Dec.19- Potluck Lunch and Gift Exchange (see below) Dec. 20 - No School Dec. 21- Jan. 5 - Winter Break Jan. 10 - Glenbow Museum Humanities: Students completed the detour tasks for the Great Lakes region this week. We then moved on and learned about the Canadain Shield. Students completed sketchnotes as they learned about geography, resources and climate for the largest region in Canada. Students should be finished the roadblock task. The detour for the Canadian Shield will be wrapped on Monday. Math & Science: This week we learned how to mentally multiply using strategies learned in class. One such strategy for 95 x 7 for example is to multiply 100 x 7 (which is 700) then subtract 5 x 7 from the product (which is 35) and they get 665. There are plenty of other strategies out there, but this is to illustrate the fluidity of numbers and how we can use alternative strategies aside from the standard algorithm. Results for the check-in will be communicated next week. In science, we graphed our temperature measurements using Lego bricks. We then discussed interesting things we observed from the graphs, such as patterns (if any), potential sources of error - all part of the nature of science. Looking ahead: warm and cool air movements and mental math interviews (2-digit by 1-digit) minimum Peace Festival Week
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