Kickin' It Karate Math

The kids are making amazing progress with the Kickin' It Math Facts Karate Math program.  Students practice reciting basic math facts with a partner every day. After the oral practice, students write a timed test. After 4 consecutive 100% tests students move up a level and earn a "belt".

Witch legs

I love this art!  It's a fun project on perspective.  Check out all of the different witch personalities...you can see them just in their legs.  I love it!

Words Their Way

We are learning the routine of how to complete the Words Their Way individualized spelling program.  Here is a sample of the word sorts for three students. Students practice with individually picked spelling patterns/lists.

Every day uses of rocks and minerals

The last two days we have been discovering all of the many uses of rocks and minerals.

Here are a  few of the items that we have learned are made up of minerals.

Colours in rocks

We know that rocks are made up of minerals.  The colours that we see in the rocks are the minerals.  We had a closer look at some of the rocks in our collections to try to identify the number of colours (minerals) in the rocks.

Museum Field Trip

October 2nd.  It was a snowy day, but we were brave and walked down to the museum for our "Emerging City" program.  We learned a bit of the history of Red Deer, looked at different artifacts and figured out how to put them in chronological order and then made "City" dioramas.